Plan de cours

Année universitaire 2014/2015
Paris School of International Affairs
Spring semester/ semestre de printemps
New Nuclear Order
Camille Grand
Session 1: Introduction
Overall presentation, Division of labor, General advices.
Session 2: Lessons of the First Nuclear Age 1945-1990
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: The evolution of nuclear strategy during the Cold War
Exposé 2: Have nuclear weapons preserved peace during the Cold War?
Session 3: The End of the Cold War and Nuclear Weapons
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: The golden decade of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation (1987-1997)
Exposé 2: The reduction of the nuclear threat after the Cold War
Session 4: The Nuclear Proliferation Challenge
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: The crisis of the nuclear non-proliferation regime
Exposé 2: Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) still relevant?
Session 5: Reinventing Nuclear Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: Current trends and priorities in nuclear arms control and disarmament
Exposé 2: Nuclear arms control and disarmament in a non-cooperative environment
Session 6: Nuclear weapons and emerging security challenges
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: Nuclear deterrence in the age of asymmetry
Exposé 2: Can missile defense become a substitute to nuclear deterrence?
Session 7: America and Nuclear Weapons
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: US nuclear policy in the post-Cold War era
Exposé 2: Does America need nuclear weapons?
Session 8: Nuclear weapons and the security of Europe
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: Russia and nuclear weapons after the Cold War
Exposé 2: Is the Ukrainian crisis a nuclear crisis?
Session 9: Europe and the Bomb
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: France, Britain and nuclear weapons: converging or diverging paths?
Exposé 2: Should NATO nuclear policy change?
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Session 10: A Nuclear Asia
Assignment for this session (if applicable)
Exposé 1: When is Chinese nuclear policy heading?
Exposé 2: Will the next nuclear use take place in Asia?
Session 11: The Middle East in the Age of Proliferation
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: A solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis?
Exposé 2: Can further proliferation be prevented in the Middle East?
Session 12: Nuclear weapons in the 21st century
Assignment for this session (if applicable):
Exposé 1: Will the second nuclear age be more stable?
Exposé 2: Abolishing nuclear weapons, feasible? Desirable?
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READINGS :
JOURNALS
 Adelphi Papers,
 Arms Control Today,
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/.
 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.thebulletin.org
 Cahiers de Chaillot, Chaillot Papers
http://www.iss.europa.eu
 Défense nationale,
 Disarmament Diplomacy,
http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/index.htm.
 Export Controls Observer,
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/observer/index.htm
 Foreign Affairs,
http://www.foreignaffairs.org
 Foreign Policy
www.foreignpolicy.com
 IAEA Bulletin,
http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/Periodicals/Bulletin/.
 International Affairs,
 International Security,
http://mitpress.mit.edu/ISEC
 Issues in Science and Technology,
http://www.nap.edu/issues/.
 Jane's Defence Weekly,
http://jdw.janes.com
 Jane's International Defense Review,
http://idr.janes.com
 Journal of Strategic Studies
 Nuclear Proliferation News,
http://csf.colorado.edu/dfax/npn/.
 Politique étrangère
www.ifri.org/frontDispatcher/ifri/publications/politique_etrangere
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Survival,
The National Interest,
The Nonproliferation Review,
The Washington Quarterly,
http://www.iiss.org/pub/survival.asp
http://www.nationalinterest.org
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/index.htm.
http://www.twq.com
WEBSITES
International organizations
United Nations
International atomic energy agency
European Union
NATO
NSG
Comité Zangger
http://www.un.org and http://www.unog.ch
http://www.iaea.org/
http://www.europa.eu.int
http://www.nato.int
http://www.nuclearsuppliersgroup.org/
http://www.zanggercommittee.org/
NGOs and Think tanks (selection)
Acronym Institute
http://www.acronym.org.uk/
Arms control association
http://www.armscontrol.org
Brookings institution
http://www.brookings.edu
Carnegie Endowment for International peace
http://carnegieendowment.org
Center for defense information
http://www.cdi.org/issues/proliferation/
Center for nonproliferation studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies
http://www.cns.miis.edu
Center for strategic and international studies
http://www.csis.org
Centre d’études de sécurité internationale et de maîtrise des armements
http://www.cesim.fr
Centre d’études et de recherches internationales
http://www.ceri-sciencespo.com/
Chatam House
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk
Council for Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org
EU Institute for security studies
http://www.iss.europa.eu/
Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org
Fondation pour la recherche stratégique
http://www.frstrategie.org
Institut de stratégie comparée (ISC)
http://www.stratisc.org
Institut français des relations internationales
http://www.ifri.org
International institute for strategic studies
http://www.iiss.org
Nuclear Threat Initiative
http://www.nti.org
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
http://www.swp-berlin.org
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
http://www.sipri.org
UNIDIR
http://www.unidir.org/
WMD COMMISSION (« Blix Commission») :
http://www.wmdcommission.org
BOOKS (selection)
 ARON Raymond, Paix et Guerre entre les Nations, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1962, 794 pages.
 ARON Raymond, Penser la guerre, Clausewitz, t.II L’âge planétaire, Gallimard, Paris, 1976,
365 pages.
 CHALIAND Gérard et JAN Michel, Atlas du nucléaire, Payot, Paris, 1993, 155 pages.
 CIRINCIONE, Joseph; et al. 2005. Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, Second
Edition Revised and Expanded. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
 COHEN Samy, La bombe atomique, la stratégie de l’épouvante, Gallimard, Paris, 1995, 160 pages.
 COHEN, Avner, Israel and the Bomb, 1998.
 DELPECH Thérèse, L’ensauvagement, Grasset, Paris, 2005, 366 pages.
 EVANS Gareth, Eliminating Nuclear Threats - A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers, Report of
the ICNND, décembre 2009 (http://www.icnnd.org/reference/reports/ent/index.html)
 GOLDBLATT Joseph, Arms Control, Sage Editions 2004,
 GOLDSCHMIDT Bertrand, Le complexe atomique, Fayard, Paris, 1980, 493 pages.
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 GRAY Colin, The Second Nuclear Age, HASSNER Pierre, La violence et la paix, T II, La terreur et
l’empire, Esprit, Paris, 2003.
 HASSNER Pierre, La violence et la paix, T. I, de la bombe atomique au nettoyage ethnique, Esprit,
Paris, 1995.
 François HEISBOURG (ed.), Les armes nucléaires ont-elles un avenir?, Odile Jacob, 2011
 JOXE Alain, Le cycle de la dissuasion, 1945-1990, Editions La Découverte/FEDN, Paris, 1990.
 KISSINGER Henry, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1957.
 KLEIN Jean (dir.), Maîtrise des armements et désarmement, les accords conclus depuis 1945,
Documentation Française, Paris, 1991.
 LAVOY Peter R., SAGAN Scott D., and WIRTZ James J., eds., Planning the Unthinkable: How New
Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
2000).
 MANNING Robert A., ROBERTS Brad, Montaperto Ronald, China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control,
Council on Foreign Relations, 1 April 2000.
 NEWHOUSE John, The Nuclear Age, Michael Joseph ltd, Londres, 1989.
 PAYNE Keith, The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence,
 PERKOVICH George, India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation, (University of
California Press: Berkeley, CA 1999).
 PODVIG Pavel, ed. Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, (MIT Press: Cambridge MA 2001)
 POIRIER Lucien, Des stratégies nucléaires, Hachette, Paris, 1977, nouvelle édition, Editions
Complexe, Bruxelles, 1988.
 POIRIER Lucien, La crise des fondements, Economica, Paris, 1994.
 Sir Michael QUINLAN, Thinking about Nuclear Weapons, Oxford University Press, 2009
 REED Thomas C., At the Abyss : An Insider’s History of the Cold War, Ballantine Books, 2004.
 RHODES Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986) et Richard
Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
 SAGAN Scott, ‘Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb’, International
Security, No. 3, Vol. 21, Winter 1996/97.
 SCHELLING Thomas, Strategy of Conflict, 1960.
 SCHMITT Burkard (dir.), « Nucléaire : le retour d’un grand débat », Cahiers de Chaillot, n°48, Paris,
2001.
 TERTRAIS Bruno (ed.), Atlas du nucléaire, Autrement, 2008
 TERTRAIS Bruno et CORDONNIER Isabelle, L’Asie nucléaire, IFRI, Masson, Paris, 2001.
 TERTRAIS Bruno, “La dissuasion nucléaire en 2030”, Essai de prospective, FRS, Décembre 2006
http://www.frstrategie.org/barreFRS/publications/rd/essaiDissuasion2030.pdf
 WALTZ Kenneth N., “More May Be Better”, Adelphi Paper, London, 1974.
 ZORGBIBE Charles, Textes de stratégie nucléaire, PUF, Paris, 1993, 128 pages.
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