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Essay Instructions: What are the current Global and Domestic security threats and impacts of NATO?

The first two pages should depict the domestic security threats and thier impact for NATO

The second two pages should depict the global security threats and thier impact for NATO

Essay Instructions: Name of the subject: Contemporary Asian Security

Topic: Human Security in Asia

Instruction: You are required to prepare and present a seminar paper(essay) on the case study, which is below. I want you to write a 3000 word essay in the context of South East Asia, mainly on 2-3 undeveloped South East Asian countries that can be suited into the case study.
It should be fully referenced and have a separate bibliography.

Criteria of the essay: the presentation of argument, adequacy of research, analysis of issues, structure, adherence to the technicalities of academic writing, presentation and English grammar and expression.

Case Study(This is the main question):
The biggest threat to human security in Asia comes from state incapacity to provide certain basic services to their own citizens. Discuss.

Required Reading:

Dewi Fortuna Anwar, "Humqan Security: An Intractable Problem in Asia" in Muthia Alagappa(ed) Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features, Stanford: Stanford University Press; 536-567


For Further Reference:

Peter Stoett, Human and global security: an exploration of terms, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Tadashi Yamamoto and Chia Siow Yue(eds), The Asian Crisis and Human Security, Tokyo: JCIE, 1998

William T Tow, Ramesh Thakur and In-Taek Hyun (eds), Asia'a Emerging Regional Order: Reconcilliating Traditional and Human Security, Tokyo: UN University Press, 2000

Paul Dibb, David Hale and Peter Prince, "The Strategic Implications of Asia's Economic Crisis," Survival, (Summer 1998) 40:2

David B. Dewiit, Carolina G. Hernandez (eds), Development and security in Southeast Asia, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003

Gregory D Foster and Loouise B Wise, "Sustainable Security: Transnational Environmental Threats and Foreign Policy," Harvard International Review, 21 (Fall 1999) pp.20-23.

Alan Dupont, East Asia Imperilled, Melbourne: Cambridge Universitty Press, 2002

Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, "On the Threshold: Environmental Changes Causes for Acute Conflict," International Security, Fall 1991, p.82

Essay Instructions: The paper should be an analytical review of Richard Butler''s book, "The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Desruction, and the Crisis of Global Security". It should include mostly analysis of the book and how it relates to America''s foreign policy, and little summary.
In the heading please include: my name, Kerri Callais;the class, Political Science 444; the teacher''s name, Dr.Corbello; and the date, 5/6/03.
Also the only bibliographical info needed is that of Butler''s book.

Essay Instructions: 5250 words/60 end notes
Minimum 12-references/appropriate number of endnotes
Microsoft Word

Table of Contents
1st level headings arial narrow, boldface, size 12
2d level headings arial, boldface, size 11
3d level headings are arial, no boldface, size 11
text arial 12
The Problem
Context
Argument
Recommendations
Conclusion
Endnotes (Repeated references ? Turabian style)
Bibliography

Topic: Iran: A Path Towards Rapprochement

Thesis Statement: The purpose of this study is to argue why rapprochement with Iran is essential to the United States achieving its security objectives in the Middle East and Central Asian regions of the world.

Research presented will identify challenges to efforts to reconcile historic differences between the United States and Iran. This paper will conclude that for the United States to attain its overall strategic security objectives in the Middle East and Central Asia, the U.S. must engage Iran by developing policies that build upon common cultural, economic, political, and security interests. To achieve this, the U.S. must first establish a dialogue with Iran, and guarantee support of Iran?s integration into the global economy and regional security architecture to ensure peace in the Middle East and Central Asian regions.

The outline of this paper will cover the following key topics: historical perspectives on United States/Iranian relations; global and regional strategic challenges including political, military, and economic issues; US, European, and Asian involvement in the region; Iran?s human rights issues; Iran?s military and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities; and, Iran?s willingness to seek support from Russia, China, and North Korea, to reduce U.S. influence in the region. Argument will be made that: U.S. policies and initiatives must stabilize Afghanistan and Iraq, find a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reduce the spread on WMD and offensive weapons within the region, encourage the economic development of Iran, encourage Iran to support the development of democratic institutions, and promote Iran?s integration into the global economy.

Additionally, the process of developing an enhances U.S./Iranian relationship, the case will be made that all inhibitors to improved U.S./Iranian relations must be overcome without and undue cost to the Iran?s Islamic heritage. Those inhibitors to achieving a fully achieve a stable, open, prosperous, and progressive partnership with Iran need not be fully reconciled prior to developing an open, prosperous, and progressive partnership with Iran. With the understanding that a failed or strained U.S./Iranian relationship will continue to undermine U.S. efforts to achieve regional stability, and weaken global security. It is therefore in the best interest of the United States to make every effort to seek rapprochement with Iran, thus bring stability to the Middle East and Central Asian regions of the world.

Requested reference sources

al-Suwaidi, Jamal S., ed. Iran and the Gulf: A Search for Stability. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1996.

Amuzegar, Fahangir. ?Iran?s Crumbling Revolution,? Foreign Affairs 82, no. 1 (January / February 2003): 44-57

Armitage, Richard L., ?U.S. Policy and Iran,? Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D.C.: October 28, 2003. Available from< http://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/25682.htm>; Internet; accessed 5 March 2004

Bush, George W., The National Security of the United States.
Washington, D.C.: The White House, September 2002. Available from < http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html>; Internet; accessed 5 March 2004

Cordesman, Anthony H. and Hashim, Ahmed S., Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment. Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1997.

Fawcett, Louise. Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Katzman, Kenneth. ?Iran: Current Developments and U.S. Policy,? Congressional Research Service, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: July 25, 2003. Available from http://www.fas.org/man/crs/IB93033.pdf Internet; accessed 5 March 2004

Senior U.S. Official Spells out Dual-Track U. S. Policy Toward Iran http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02080213.htm