Robert D. Blackwill

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February 16, 2013

"Will China Ever Be No. 1"

Op-Ed, Foreign Policy

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Will China continue to grow three times faster than the United States to become the No. 1 economy in the world in the decade ahead? Does China aspire to be the No. 1 power in Asia and ultimately the world? As it becomes a great power, will China follow the path taken by Japan in becoming an honorary member of the West? Graham sAllison and Robert Blackwill suggest that while nobody knows the answer to these questions, the person they believe should be consulted for an answer is Lee Kuan Yew.

February 14, 2013

"Seek the Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew"

Op-Ed, Politico

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Graham Allison and Robert Blackwill provide a preview of their latest book, "Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World."

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February 13, 2013

"Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew Talks America's Strengths And Weaknesses"

Op-Ed, Forbes

By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Ali Wyne, Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Both in the United States and abroad, many influential observers argue that the U.S. is in systemic decline. Not so, says Lee Kuan Yew, the sage of Singapore. Lee is not only a student of the rise and fall of nations.  He is also the founder of modern Singapore. As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.

July 7, 2010

"A De Facto Partition for Afghanistan"

Op-Ed, Politico

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The Obama administration's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan seems headed for failurewrites Ambassador Robert Blackwill. Given the alternatives, de facto partition of Afghanistan is the best policy option available to the United States and its allies, he believes.

June 22 - July 1, 2008

Report of the Strategic Security Issues Delegation to Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC)

Report

By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Admiral (ret.) Joseph W. Prueher, Former Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project, Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, Stephen A. Orlins, Dr. David M. Lampton, Kurt M. Campbell, Former Associate Professor of Public Policy and International Relations, 1988-1993, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Assistant Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 1988-1993; and Former Research Fellow, ISP, 1985-1987, Dr. Ashley Tellis, Dr. Evan Medeiros and Jan Berris

Full text of the trip report from PDP's Track II meetings in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC).

July 22, 2005

Diplomacy Is Back at the State Department!

Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Summer 2005

The India Imperative

Journal Article, National Interest, issue 80

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

March 21, 2005

A New Deal for New Delhi

Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

July, 2000

America's Asian Alliances

Book

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Paul Dibb

Unlike the new and largely peaceful Europe, the Asia-Pacific region is fraught with old instabilities and new risks, as well as opportunities. America's Asian alliances face an arc of potential instability, from the divided Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia, to the nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan on the South Asian subcontinent, to an unstable Indonesia in Southeast Asia. The United States and its allies must also address the rise of Chinese power, slow the spread of nuclear and high-tech conventional weapons, maintain access to energy resources, and expand the world free-trade system.

August, 1997

Allies Divided: Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East

Book

By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Michael Sturmer

The shifting global security and defense landscape of the post-Cold War era has led the West to reexamine regional priorities and existing international institutions. Many scholars have written on how best to coordinate policy on the security of Central Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union, and on reforming NATO and the OSCE. Very few scholars, however, have prescribed policy for transatlantic cooperation toward threats that transcend Europe and NATO, especially in the Middle East.