ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the observation that the Bush Administration and the Congress will have a brief window of opportunity to reconcile non-proliferation objectives and regional security interests. This observation left open the question of whether either will have the will and the means necessary to affect such a reconciliation. Without such a reconciliation, the non-proliferation regime is put in jeopardy. Next, the chapter looks at the history of American non-proliferation leadership through the prism of American decision-making, with particular emphasis given to the slow divorce of non-proliferation from national strategy. For a long time serious American initiatives on non-proliferation were instruments of a broader national strategy. Finally, the chapter offers some suggestions for the restructuring of American policy-making on non-proliferation so that this can be more closely integrated with broader national strategy.
