Juliette Kayyem
Lecturer in Public Policy
Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-6743
Fax: 617-495-8963
Email: juliette.kayyem@gmail.com
November 28, 2011
"Paranoia on the High Seas"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Of the 12 million people worldwide who took cruises last year, there were only 22 deaths. Those are pretty good statistics, though not everything is perfect. People manage to fall off; crime occurs; viruses abound. Still, traveling by cruise is actually about the safest mode of transportation during the holidays. Certainly, we are urged to wash our hands regularly to protect from viruses. Passports and identification are a must when entering or leaving the ship."
November 24, 2011
"A Thanksgiving Wish for the Troops"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...Obama and Biden were in Florida to promote a charity called Joining Forces, which supports the hiring and training of veterans. The visit came a day before President Obama signed bipartisan legislation giving tax rebates to corporations that hire long-term unemployed or disabled veterans."
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November 22, 2011
"GOP Cannot Separate Foreign Policy from the Economy"
Op-Ed, CNN.com
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The economy and our national security are inextricably linked. What we pay for and how we pay for it are decisions that are not simply about domestic economic policy. Likewise, the choices we make about our commitment to two wars and our willingness to engage in future wars have dramatic economic consequences."
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November 21, 2011
"Immigration-law Remorse"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Alabama and Arizona certainly knew the price of anti-immigrant fervor, putting aside the civil liberties implications. The implementation costs to train police, judges, and local governments are astronomical. The Justice Department has filed suit against Alabama and Arizona, and the litigation won't be cheap. Businesses and international investors steer clear of unwelcoming states, and actions by individual states complicate national planning for multi-state companies."
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November 17, 2011
"A Rethink for Europe"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Initially, with Europe exhausted by two world wars, fascism, totalitarianism, and the threat of communism, the EU helped to keep the peace. While combining the coal and steel communities in Germany and France served economic interests, the treaty that brought them together was always about more than dollars and cents. After all, no war could be fought, and no army could be armed, without independent access to mines and steel. Continental Europe tied its own hands to avoid slaughter in the future."
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November 14, 2011
"A Model in Others' Eyes, Turkey Sees Itself Anew"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"For years, Turkey has sought to join the European Union and has promoted internal democratic reforms to convince Western democracies it was one of them. But Turkey's closest European neighbor — Greece — has now installed [a] technocrat to save itself from economic ruin. The EU is teetering. Turkey's economy is more sound than those of many EU nations, making future membership a questionable prize."
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November 10, 2011
"US, Israel Have Time to Deal with Iran Threat"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Iran does not have a nuclear bomb, and nothing in the International Atomic Energy Agency's report released Tuesday brings the world any closer to doomsday. The IAEA report is disturbing; it concluded that Iran had let up on past efforts to build nuclear weapons but, as suspected, has conducted significant work more recently. The report will help build international support for isolating Iran; that is its intent."
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November 7, 2011
"Paychecks as a Defense Weapon"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"This has to do with the nature of military investments. The Center for International Policy details that military spending is more often capital intensive, not labor intensive. Take a single F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Only 1.5 percent of its total costs (estimates are about $200 million per plane) are spent on labor to assemble and manufacture the entire aircraft."
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November 3, 2011
"Taking on Russia"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Here is a law that actually merges human-rights values with street-fighter sensibilities. The US government could punish atrocities by individuals where it hurts them the most — in their wallets, via access to Western markets — and still break bread with the Kremlin. It focuses on individuals without actually needing the US government to say anything about that nation's culpability."
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October 30, 2011
"The Battle of Military Suicides"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"There has always been the do-gooder answer — that this is what we owe to the men and women who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the suicide crisis is really about the future of our military. The shocking number of suicides in the all-volunteer force will make recruitment of the best talent vastly more difficult. Heartstrings aside, if service in an all-volunteer army comes to be associated with depression and misery, then solving the problem is as crucial for the next war as the ones now winding down."
