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
January 30, 2012
"US Has Tied Own Hands as Cuba Drills"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Congress should support an exception to our Cuban non-engagement policy for off-shore drilling. We should want, with all our neighbors, an agreement on rigorous safety standards, regulatory oversight, and containment strategies. Unfortunately, some of the proposals in Congress seek to punish any company in contract with Cuba, an effort that smacks more of Cold War politics than real-world economics."
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January 26, 2012
"The DREAM Act Struggles On, Nameless But Alive"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Could the corporate appeal of the H-1B visa program be coupled with the idealism of the DREAM Act for an entirely different way of looking at immigration reform? The White House is content to leave the exact statutory proposal nameless as a nod to a potential compromise that may be more limited than the DREAM Act, but a step in the right direction."
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January 23, 2012
"Willfully Stupid on Turkey"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Perry surely knows some of this and would have corrected his statements if he had wanted to. And not a single candidate seems terribly willing to defend Turkey. Perry's assertions were left to linger, a broad-brush stroke of stereotypes and Islam-bashing that filled the air with inaccuracies."
January 19, 2012
"Stopping the Clock"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"...[W]hen the smart scientists decided to add global warming and biological harms to the clock's matrix in 2007, their previous laser focus on nuclear Armageddon lost its impact. Their explanation of why things have gotten one minute worse is a laundry list that includes nuclear proliferation, Iran, Japan's nuclear disaster and its effects on nuclear power investments, carbon emissions, and virulent strains of viruses that can be used for lethal purposes."
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January 14, 2012
"Iran Scientist Assassinations Serve No End"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Ahmadi-Roshan was likely as expendable to the Iranians as he was to whoever plotted his death. That suggests why Iran seems so incapable of protecting its allegedly high-value scientists. He was, in the end, of no consequence to the real issues at play. His murder should be condemned because it is brutal and gets us no closer to a meaningful resolution of Iran's nuclear ambitions."
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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."
