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
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January 12, 2012
"Haiti's Lifeline Runway"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The military's strength is in logistics, not humanitarian decision-making, a lesson that we seem to discover again and again. In the future, the United States should defer to the host nation, its neighbors, or the United Nations and give them the responsibility of establishing a priority list for flights. We shouldn't take on the ethical dilemma of deciding who comes in first."
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January 9, 2012
"Strategy on China: Keep It Vague"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"With those kinds of leadership changes occurring in China, the most important move the United States can make now is to deepen its engagement throughout East Asia — including maintaining our troops and naval presence there — but to stay flexible and prepared to adjust to whatever may come next in China."
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January 5, 2012
"Security vs. Scourge"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[T]he board is made up of scientists and has no enforcement power. The government does, and the board’s position should be seen as a plea to the journals to avoid a showdown with national-security officials who are understandably concerned with biological weapons. The absence of a globally enforceable Biological Weapons Convention (the United States withdrew its support in 2001) means that each nation, individually, must monitor itself."
December 29, 2011
"The GOP's War Identity Crisis"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The Republicans' search for an identity on foreign policy is all the harder in a world no longer defined by terrorism. There is, after all, nothing new about the isolationism heralded by the Tea Party. It has always been a strong ideological strain for Republicans, from opposition to the League of Nations to involvement in World War II (silenced after Pearl Harbor), to early, and prescient, concerns about the Vietnam War. It is also easier for the GOP to be anti-engagement when a Democrat is in office. But President Bush's wars submerged the rift between this camp and the neocons."
December 26, 2011
"War Ends, A Soldier at a Time"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"How a war is fought is a dramatic narrative brought home by fearless reporters. The seemingly less heroic process of a drawdown is not as interesting. It's mundane and technical. Over a short period, the troops, planes, trucks, post offices, canteens — all the little cities we built — needed to come home. There was no final battle, not even the clarity of a frenzied escape on a helicopter. This war ended one soldier at a time."
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December 21, 2011
"Lost Bodies and Erroneous Tombstones"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Across the military establishment, there was a lack of planning for those returning home — dead or alive. Egregious medical conditions for soldiers at Walter Reed hospital in Washington were explained as being the result of an overloaded system that didn't anticipate the burdens of a decade of war. Arlington National Cemetery could not manage the numbers of deaths, resulting in lost bodies and erroneous tombstones."
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December 19, 2011
"Will an Obama Tactic Work for Gingrich?"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Gingrich's diehard allegiance to Israel is a way to align himself with the side he knows might win — the hawks who decry Obama's weakness. Gingrich is not only presenting himself as anti-Obama, but the most anti-Obama of all the GOP hopefuls. It is exactly the tactic that Obama used against Hillary Clinton; he was more anti-Bush than she was."
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December 15, 2011
"Give Us Your Educated Masses"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[O]ur visa programs are way too egalitarian: We should get more selective about the types of employees we want and less democratic about where they come from. The H-1B visa, which goes to skilled workers who are sponsored by companies that want them, is ripe for such modifications."
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December 12, 2011
"The Government's Marijuana Problem"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The Schedule I designation was initially made by Congress but it can be changed by administrative action. Chafee and Gregoire want the DEA to demote marijuana; they cite 2,300 studies regarding the safety and efficacy of medical marijuana, studies that they found in the government's own Library of Medicine. A different classification would give some confidence to states that the federal government recognizes the legitimacy of medical marijuana. It would also give the federal government some legal basis, besides priority shifting, for setting standards for lawful medical marijuana use."
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December 8, 2011
"WikiLeaks' Favor to Diplomacy"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"It is true that WikiLeaks is a bad word in government circles. But the diplomatic corps came off pretty well in the substance of the disclosures. The cables also suggested that these diplomats were more than passive observers. Sure they had that role as objective liaisons and party hosts, but they clearly were engaged with the people of their host nations."
