| This dissertation examines the Clinton Administration's attempts to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction through the Counterproliferation Policy Initiative. This study of policy innovation and public leadership includes an analytical framework with elements drawn from transformational, transactional, and participative leadership concepts.; Calls for both policy innovation and new public management placed significant demands on leaders during the 1990s. Throughout the Clinton era there were demands for major public management reforms in government. Reforming, reinventing, and transforming public organizations remain popular political and academic approaches to enhancing government efficiency and effectiveness.; This dissertation uses a qualitative, case study research methodology. The cases include the U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework; the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program for Russia and the Former Soviet Republics; and the U.S. and U.N. efforts for eliminating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.; The U.S.'s role and the roles of its internal government agencies are most significant in international affairs, especially in an age of globalization. U.S. interagency coordination and alignment are indispensable to the creative design and effective implementation of national security policy and strategy. Interagency coordination and long-range planning by the U.S. government, including the national security council and defense, state and other cabinet departments remain major shortcomings, as suggested in each of these cases.; This study also reinforces the importance of a public administration framework of public leadership and management, in terms of setting strategic direction, aligning and integrating the efforts of various domestic and international stakeholders, and emphasizing performance measures---both for scholarly research and policymaking. Finally, the reform of the U.N. and the international arms control regime remains an important research agenda for the fields of international relations and public administration. It is at the juncture of these two disciplines of political science that offers great potential for understanding the theory and practice of policy innovation and public leadership to meet the challenges of preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the 21st Century. |
