The Challenges of the U.S. Missile Defense to Arms Control in Outer Space (1996-2008): An Analysis from the Realists's View
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Tsung-Ta
Abstract
The U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) is the most giant, most complicated, most expensive, and most controversial military defense project in history. The military defense project is derived from the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in the Cold War era, but until President George W. Bush performs and pushes it in twenty-first century. President George W. Bush’s effort lets the development and deployment of the U.S. NMD access to significant achievement. For this reason, NMD induces the military race among Russia, China and the U.S, which has become a hot topic of the current international politics.
Accordingly, the doctoral dissertation, the title of the U.S. missile defenses to Arms Control in outer space (1996-2008), I would like to explore this topic from six themes of the content and development of arms control in outer space, the development of the U.S. NMD, missile defense system’s impact on arms control in outer space, the reactions of great powers, the response of the U.S. to great powers’ reaction and its destruction of the international regimes, and assessment, analysis, and prospect. By realist theory of international relations to evaluate and analyze the challenges of the U.S. missile defense on the current and future arms control in outer space, as well as military and diplomatic interactions among Russia, China, European Union and the U.S., and such as interaction how to impact on the current international situation.
From this dissertation research, President George W. Bush makes his best effort to push the development of the U.S. NMD that it not only cause a very serious negative impact on the existed arms control in outer space but also hinder the international society in working to create a new regime of arms control in outer space. In addition, Russia and China regard the military defense of the U.S. missile defense as a considerable threat to their national security. Based on this reason, China and Russia need to strengthen their military capabilities in order to respond to the threat from the U.S. missile defense, and this two countries have very close diplomatic joint actions to impede the further development and deployment of the U.S. missile defense. The joint diplomatic actions from China and Russia are inclusive of initiating to construct a new treaty of arms control in outer space and doing passive non-cooperation or taking resistance in preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In this case, the U.S. missile defense cause the resistance from China and Russia, especially as to prevent the proliferation of weapons of boycott, on the contrast, it will let the proliferation of missile and WMD more and more serious. For Example, the development of the medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and nuclear weapon in Iran, these achievements are supported by Russia. However, this situation destroys the diplomatic effort of the U.S. in actively preventing the proliferation of missile and WMD, and thereby allowing the U.S. national security suffers more severe challenge.
Whether the military construction of the U.S. missile defense or the resistance of China and Russia to the U.S. missile defense system, in fact, these can get an excellent interpretation and analysis form the realist theory of international relations, so this dissertation employs the excellences of realism to explore and analyze the power struggle among great powers. Nevertheless, I think that realism can not resolve the problem of great powers’ security dilemma because of their arms race. For this reason, I provide the discourse of destructing nation and hybridity from postmodernism of international relation to be a thought that great powers how to escape the security dilemma.
Subjects
National Missile Defense
Arms Control in Outer Space
Realism
Arms Race
Power Politics
SDGs
Type
thesis
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