Us War on Iraq

Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives
War with Iraq
committee on
international security studies
Carl Kaysen Steven E. Miller Martin B. Malin
William D. Nordhaus John D. Steinbruner
Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives
War with Iraq
Carl Kaysen Steven E. Miller Martin B. Malin
William D. Nordhaus John D. Steinbruner
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Contents
v i i P R E FAC E
1 C H A P T E R 1
U.S. National Security Policy: In Search of Balance
Carl Kaysen, John D. Steinbruner, and Martin B. Malin
7 C H A P T E R 2
Gambling on War: Force, Order, and the Implications of
Attacking Iraq
Steven E. Miller
5 1 C H A P T E R 3
The Economic Consequences of a War with Iraq
William D. Nordhaus
8 7 C O N T R I B U TORS
This Occasional Paper has its origins in a discussion that took place at a meeting of the
Committee on International Security Studies (CISS) of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences on October 11, 2002. Participants included: James Carroll (Boston Globe),
Richard Garwin (Council on Foreign Relations), Janice Gross-Stein (University of
Toronto), Harry Harding (George Washington University), Carl Kaysen
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Neal Lane (Rice University), Robert Legvold
(Columbia University), Jane Holl Lute (United Nations Foundation), Martin Malin
(American Academy of Arts and Sciences), Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University),
Steven Miller (Harvard University), Janne Nolan... [continues]

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