The “Pathways to Peace with John M. Whiteley” series of interviews was created between 1983 and 1989. It includes not only influential thinkers from the United States but also key thinkers from other countries around the world. As a consequence of glasnost and perestroika. Soviet participation began in 1988.

The series of interviews began shortly after President Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech in March of 1983 with an interview with noted American psychologist B.F. Skinner and the last interviews in this series were conducted shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. With the end of the Cold War it is increasingly clear that humankind must intensify its search for more peaceful solutions to what are age-old problems.

There are four separate collections of interviews within the “Social Ecology of Peace” series. They differ in content focus but not in depth or distinctiveness. The title “The Social Ecology of Peace” denotes the multi-disciplinary perspectives of the participants and the different levels of analysis they employ in their presentations of why there is not peace and what can be done to achieve it.

The Creation of a Framework for a More Enduring World Peace

Robert McNamara – The Right Problem is to Stop Thinking of These Warheads as Weapons – 1985

Paul H. Nitze – Strategic Insights Toward a More Peaceful World – 1985

Paul Nitze – A Dark View of Soviet Intentions – 1985

Randall Forsberg – Overcoming Obstacles to a Stable Disarmed Peace – 1985

Richard Falk – Building Images of a Desirable World – 1985

Betty Reardon – Making Peace a Real Possibility – 1985

Critical Issues Before the Democracy

The contributions and imitations of modern technology as a force for peace in the nuclear age

Herbert York – Easy Solutions to One Problem Tend to Make Others Worse – 1984

Sydney Drell – The Challenge of Avoiding Nuclear Holocaust – 1985

George Keyworth, II 1985

George A. Keyworth II – Deterring the Enemy – 1985

Hans Bethe – There is No Technological Solution – 1985

Edward Teller – Whatever You Think, Think Again – 1985

Franklin A. Long – Something Very Simple Called Stability – 1987

Roald Sagdeev – Our Common Goal in Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War – 1987

The impact on the prospects for peace of superpower strivings for national security

Curtis E. LeMay – I See Nothing Bad About an Arms Race – 1985

Clark Clifford – Learning From the Lessons of the Past – 1985

Catherine Kelleher – Captured by the Nightmare of the Two-Front War – 1985

Helmut Sonnenfeldt – Survival in the Nuclear Age is Quite an Accomplishment – 1984

Alexander Dailin – Fallacies Underlying How Americans Think About the Soviet Union – 1984

Walter Slocombe 1985

Walter Slocombe – The Unpleasant Fact: Living With Deterrence for a Very Long Time – 1985

David Holloway – How the Soviet Union Thinks About Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War – 1987

Condoleeza Rice – Simply Understanding the Russians is not Enough – 1985

The impact on the prospects for peace of superpower striving for arms control

Gloria Duffy – Changing Politics & Technology in Verification of Compliance w/ Arms Control Agreements – 1985

Alton Frye – Finding Safety from the Nuclear Menace Together or Not Finding It At All – 1985

Gerard B. Smith – The Do’s and Don’ts of Arms Control Negotiations – 1984

Henry S. Rowen – Arms Control Outcomes Have Strengthened the Soviet Union and Been Just Short of Disaster for the United States – 1985

Some of the steps which can be taken to lower the risks of nuclear war

Robert McNamara – Security is a Function of Much More than Military Hardware – 1985

Albert Carnesale – Principles to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War – 1988

Desmond Ball – Fighting and Deterring Nuclear War: Contrasting Soviet and American Approaches – 1985

Roger Molander – The Three Nuclear Arms Races in The World Today – 1987

Richard L. Garwin – Nuclear Weapons Are Here to Stay – 1984

Philip Farley – Avoiding Nuclear War and Bringing the Nuclear Arms Race Under Control – 1984

Perspective On the Path to Peace

Jerome Wiesner – If We Expect the World to Survive, We Have to Change – 1985

William J. Fulbright – America Cannot Remember What Other Countries Cannot Forget – 1985

Donald McHenry – We’ve Got to Learn to Live with Diversity – 1985

Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. – The Most Dangerous World is One in Which the Soviets Have It & We Do Not – 1985

Michael May – Consensus Between the United States and the Soviet Union

Michael May – The Consensus Between the United States and the Soviet Union – 1984

Elise Boulding – Visioning the Possible: What Can I Do In the Present? – 1987

Robert Muller – This is the New Age of Cooperation – 1986

Georgi Arbatov – We Have Deprived You of an Enemy – 1987

Barry M. Goldwater – Maintaining Freedom – 1987

Robert Tucker – Russia Since the Communist Revolution – 1984

Vitalii Goldanskii – The New Political Way of Thinking

TRANSCENDING THE COLD WAR

This resource presents insights transcending the Cold War context (1983-1989) in which the Quest for Peace interviews were conducted. These insights are presented in two formats. The first format is intended to introduce viewers to the range of insights which are relevant to the search for peace in the 21^st Century. The second format presents the same excerpts organized by content.

There are two disclaimers. The insights can fit into multiple categories, and in many cases the individuals agree on the significance of the issue but have diametrically opposed opinions. The viewer is encouraged to go to the complete interview

Transcending the Cold War

Brian Jenkins – Terrorists Want a Lot of People Watching, Not a Lot of People Dead – 1988

Captain Robert Barnhart, Jr

Michael Doyle

Jack Matlock

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 1

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 2

Roland Timerbaev

Pathways to Peace New Insights

Michael Doyle – John Steuart Mill in the Political Philosophy of Non-Intervention and Security

Jack Matlock

South China Sea-Major General Yao Yunzhu

Trofimenko

Gordon Adams – The Iron Triangle and the Governmental Politics of National Security – 1984

The Creation of a Framework for a More Enduring World Peace

Robert McNamara – The Right Problem is to Stop Thinking of These Warheads as Weapons – 1985

Paul H. Nitze – Strategic Insights Toward a More Peaceful World – 1985

Paul Nitze – A Dark View of Soviet Intentions – 1985

Randall Forsberg – Overcoming Obstacles to a Stable Disarmed Peace – 1985

Richard Falk – Building Images of a Desirable World – 1985

Betty Reardon – Making Peace a Real Possibility – 1985

Critical Issues Before the Democracy

Herbert York – Easy Solutions to One Problem Tend to Make Others Worse – 1984

Sydney Drell – The Challenge of Avoiding Nuclear Holocaust – 1985

George Keyworth, II 1985

George A. Keyworth II – Deterring the Enemy – 1985

Hans Bethe – There is No Technological Solution – 1985

Edward Teller – Whatever You Think, Think Again – 1985

Franklin A. Long – Something Very Simple Called Stability – 1987

Roald Sagdeev – Our Common Goal in Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War – 1987

Clark Clifford – Learning From the Lessons of the Past – 1985

Catherine Kelleher – Captured by the Nightmare of the Two-Front War – 1985

Helmut Sonnenfeldt – Survival in the Nuclear Age is Quite an Accomplishment – 1984

Alexander Dailin – Fallacies Underlying How Americans Think About the Soviet Union – 1984

Walter Slocombe 1985

Walter Slocombe – The Unpleasant Fact: Living With Deterrence for a Very Long Time – 1985

David Holloway – How the Soviet Union Thinks About Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War – 1987

Condoleeza Rice – Simply Understanding the Russians is not Enough – 1985

Gloria Duffy – Changing Politics & Technology in Verification of Compliance w/ Arms Control Agreements – 1985

Gerard B. Smith – The Do’s and Don’ts of Arms Control Negotiations – 1984

Henry S. Rowen – Arms Control Outcomes Have Strengthened the Soviet Union and Been Just Short of Disaster for the United States – 1985

Robert McNamara – Security is a Function of Much More than Military Hardware – 1985

Albert Carnesale – Principles to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War – 1988

Desmond Ball – Fighting and Deterring Nuclear War: Contrasting Soviet and American Approaches – 1985

Roger Molander – The Three Nuclear Arms Races in The World Today – 1987

Richard L. Garwin – Nuclear Weapons Are Here to Stay – 1984

Philip Farley – Avoiding Nuclear War and Bringing the Nuclear Arms Race Under Control – 1984

Jerome Wiesner – If We Expect the World to Survive, We Have to Change – 1985

William J. Fulbright – America Cannot Remember What Other Countries Cannot Forget – 1985

Donald McHenry – We’ve Got to Learn to Live with Diversity – 1985

Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. – The Most Dangerous World is One in Which the Soviets Have It & We Do Not – 1985

Michael May – Consensus Between the United States and the Soviet Union

Michael May – The Consensus Between the United States and the Soviet Union – 1984

Elise Boulding – Visioning the Possible: What Can I Do In the Present? – 1987

Robert Muller – This is the New Age of Cooperation – 1986

Georgi Arbatov – We Have Deprived You of an Enemy – 1987

Barry M. Goldwater – Maintaining Freedom – 1987

Robert Tucker – Russia Since the Communist Revolution – 1984

Vitalii Goldanskii – The New Political Way of Thinking

Brian Jenkins – Terrorists Want a Lot of People Watching, Not a Lot of People Dead – 1988

Captain Robert Barnhart, Jr

Michael Doyle

Jack Matlock

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 1

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 2

Roland Timerbaev

Pathways to Peace New Insights

Michael Doyle – John Steuart Mill in the Political Philosophy of Non-Intervention and Security

Jack Matlock

South China Sea-Major General Yao Yunzhu

Trofimenko

Gordon Adams – The Iron Triangle and the Governmental Politics of National Security – 1984

Roland Timerbaev

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 1

Mikhail Milshtein pt. 2

Sergei Kapitza

Andrey Kokoshin

Quest for Peace in the 21st Century – Robert Barnhart

Quest for Peace in the 21st Century – Ariel Ahram

Ariel Ahram – City & Soul in Divided Societies

Ariel Ahram – The Fate of Arab Authoritarianism

Trofimenko

Henry A Trofimenko – USSR #2