The Hon. Christopher A. Ford
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The Weaponization of Integrity: How the West’s Enemies Try to Leverage its Ethics Against It
Dr. Christopher Ford • December 7, 2024
As noted in the previous post here on New Paradigms Forum, the inaugural issue of Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), the online journal of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University, was published on December 7, 2024. It includes Dr. Ford's essay on how America's adversaries seek to weaponize its moral integrity against it. You can find the whole first issue of DASSO by clicking here, or you can use the button below to download a PDF of Dr. Ford's essay.
With 2024 hours from being over, here’s a handy compilation of my public work product from the last year. As you can see from the list of seven papers or articles and 20 presentations below, it’s been a big year for nuclear weapons policy and arms control topics – but as always there’s a good helping of strategic competition with China. Keep checking New Paradigms Forum for new material as we move into 2025. And Happy New Year, everyone!
Below is an edited and revised version of the remarks Dr. Ford prepared for a CSIS/PONI Workshop on “Irreversibility in Nuclear Disarmament” at Wilton Park, in the United Kingdom, on December 18, 2024.
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered to the annual so-called “Nukes at Christmas” nonproliferation conference at Wilton Park, United Kingdom, on December 16, 2024.
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on December 13, 2024.
Below are the remarks Dr. Ford delivered to a conference at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on December 11, 2024, organized by the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR).
Below is the text on which Dr. Ford based his briefing to the European Leadership Network on December 10, 2024.
The inaugural issue of Defense & Strategic Studies Online (DASSO), the online journal of the Graduate School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University , was published on December 7, 2024. It includes an article co-authored by Dr. Ford and Dr. Alex Memory of the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory . You can find the whole first issue of DASSO by clicking here , or you can use the button below to download a PDF of the Ford/Memory article .
Below is the text upon which Dr. Ford drew during his participation in a roundtable workshop at the National Defense University on December 6, 2024.
Below is the prepared text upon which Dr. Ford based his remarks to the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on December 4, 2024.
This is not a new publication, but as so many experts in the Washington strategic policy community struggle with how to ensure strat egic stability in the current threat environment, what "strategic stability" even means in the first place, and what kind of future there might be for arms control, the reader might be interested in Dr. Ford's chapter in a 2013 volume on such questions edited by Elbridge Colby and Michael Gerson. You can find the entire book here , or use the button below to download a PDF of Dr. Ford's chapter.