TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 131

The 2012 Shift in U.S. National Security Strategy: The Context

Douglas Lovelace, Jr. and Kristen Boon

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents

Brings readers up to date on the current U.S. national security strategy, which has become increasingly oriented on China and East Asia.
Updates the reader on the nature of the North Korean threat, including the North Korean government's pursuit of nuclear weapons, and contemporary U.S. policy to contain the threat through diplomacy and regional partnership.
Presents an overview on the historical rise and current state of terrorism across Southeast Asia, which continues to threaten U.S. interests and concern U.S. allies across Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Lays out the issues and challenges faced by the U.S. in aiming to maintain a permanent force presence in the Asia-Pacific region.

TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 131

The 2012 Shift in U.S. National Security Strategy: The Context

Douglas Lovelace, Jr. and Kristen Boon

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents

Description

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics in the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. Among the documents collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), United Nations Security Council resolutions, reports and investigations by the United Nations Secretary-General and other dedicated UN bodies, and case law from the U.S. and around the globe covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index and other indices that guide the user through this complex area of the law.

Volume 131, The 2012 Shift in U.S. National Security Strategy: The Context, focuses on the Obama administration's general shift beyond the conflicts in the Middle East and Central Asia and towards a more Asia-Pacific national security strategy in early 2012. In this volume, Professor Douglas Lovelace, Jr., provides a context for the shift and describes its most important components: the multidimensional domestic and international security and economic threats posed by China, the North Korean threat, the rise of Southeast Asian terrorism, and U.S. geostrategic posturing throughout Asia. Professor Lovelace discusses and frames these issues through reports by the U.S. Department of Defense, Congressional Research Service, U.S. Army War College, U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission, and the U.S. General Accountability Office.

TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 131

The 2012 Shift in U.S. National Security Strategy: The Context

Douglas Lovelace, Jr. and Kristen Boon

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents

VOLUME 131

THE 2012 SHIFT IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY: THE CONTEXT

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

A. THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: THREAT OR OPPORTUNITY?

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.

DOCUMENT NO. 1: Executive Summary of the 2011 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, November 2011

DOCUMENT NO. 2: Occupying the Information High Ground: Chinese Capabilities for Computer Network Operations and Cyber Espionage, prepared by the Northrop Grumman Corporation for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Bryan Krekel, Patton Adams & George Bakos, March 7, 2011

DOCUMENT NO. 3: The Chinese Communist Party and Its Emerging Next-Generation Leaders, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, China Rising Leaders Project Research Report Series: Part 1, John Dotson, Shelly Zhao & Andrew Taffer, March 23, 2012

DOCUMENT NO. 4: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2012: A Report to Congress Pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Office of the Secretary of Defense, May 2012

B. THE NORTH KOREA PROBLEM

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.

DOCUMENT NO. 5: Understanding the North Korea Problem: Why It Has Become the "Land of Lousy Options", William Boik, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, July 2011

C. SOUTHEAST ASIA CONCERNS

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.

DOCUMENT NO. 6: Terrorism in Southeast Asia, CRS Report RL34194, Bruce Vaughn, Emma Chanlett-Avery, Ben Dolven, Mark E. Manyin, Michael F. Martin & Larry A. Niksch, October 16, 2009

D. U.S. GEOSTRATEGIC POSTURE IN ASIA

Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.

DOCUMENT NO. 7: Comprehensive Cost Information and Analysis of Alternatives Needed to Assess Military Posture in Asia, GAO Report 11-316, May 25, 2011

TERRORISM: COMMENTARY ON SECURITY DOCUMENTS VOLUME 131

The 2012 Shift in U.S. National Security Strategy: The Context

Douglas Lovelace, Jr. and Kristen Boon

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents

Author Information

Douglas Lovelace, Jr. is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.

Kristen E Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.