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
October 11, 2012
"The Toughest Sanctions"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Companies that manage the transport of all these resources can have tremendous impact on any nation's survival, making the movement of goods across the seas an unrecognized animating force in foreign affairs. The sanctions and the resulting economic crisis made the route through the Strait of Hormuz unsustainable for this major shipping line."
October 8, 2012
"Generals, Make Way for the Lawyers"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Blocking a company owned by foreign nationals from working on a domestic construction project is a striking move. It's been 22 years since any president has required a foreign company to divest all interests in an American project. These cases involve neither war nor diplomacy, but rather the other tools available to a president to protect American interests. We don't hear much about the lawyers these days, but legal and regulatory decisions are an essential aspect of national security strategy."
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September 24, 2012
"Panama's Magic Number"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The United States is the only modern society that does not have a federal agency responsible for port strategy. Maritime planning is left to the states. The White House can merely promise expedited engineering review, as it did last month, of the port changes in New York, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, all trying to get to that depth of 50 feet, fast."
September 20, 2012
"Panama Canal's Future Depends on Accommodating Wider Loads"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"To remain competitive in a global transportation industry where the vast majority of all goods are moved on waterways, the canal had to change. Ships that are too large for the canal take their goods elsewhere: to Suez, or the Straits of Malacca (between Malaysia and Indonesia), or the ports of Los Angeles where cargo is routed on the 'land bridge' of railways and highways from West to East Coast. Or the large ships are unloaded at the base of the Panama Canal onto smaller vessels, a process that occurs here every Friday–Sunday."
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August 9, 2012
"Ebola Outbreak is Quelled — This Time"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Global public health efforts tend to be be focused on reproductive and family issues. But health programs are very much a part of our security — hard security — apparatus. Even if the Ebola virus never makes it to American shores, a large outbreak in one or two countries in Africa would eventually have ripple effects leading to destabilization of governments, concerns about the global economy, refugee crises, and the end of immigration access to the United States for those in the impacted countries."
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August 6, 2012
"The $600,000 Budget Thorn"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Rohlfs and Sullivan challenge the rather sophomoric belief that the bigger the Pentagon's budget, the better the security. Ratcheting up and ratcheting down are the wrong paradigm. The better way to reduce spending is to embrace a ratchet-across theory. The question then becomes less about whether a particular program saves lives, but whether there are cheaper alternatives with the same result."
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August 2, 2012
"Fear the Grid"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"India's woes should strike a warning for modern nations to invest in themselves and in the networks and infrastructure that unite their citizens. It's important to be a competent nation....It means that the lights go on, trains run on time, and a capital city — whether it is New Delhi or Washington, which suffered its own debilitating blackout last month — continues to function."
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June 14, 2012
"Fears of Migration Add to Europe's Woes"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The irony today is that all this talk of one Europe is actually grounded in motivations that are quite protectionist. Money matters, but the panic is also tied to a strategic effort to keep people from moving. Publicly, Britain may be hugging its European Union allies, but the motive behind it all is pure, and understandable, self-interest."
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June 7, 2012
"The Pentagon is Stopped from Going Green"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Fuel convoys are particularly subject to attack by hostile forces, and half of the Marines killed in Afghanistan and Iraq were supporting fuel transportation. Oil and water are the two commodities we import the most to the battlefield; the long line of a supply chain is a welcome mat for every IED and enemy. The biggest cost driver in the Pentagon's shrinking budget is oil; fuel increases in 2011 and 2012 cost the government an extra $3 billion."
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April 9, 2012
"The Self-destruction of Arizona"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Later this week the heads of state and government of 34 nations in this hemisphere will meet in Cartagena, Colombia, at the sixth Summit of the Americas. Obama will be there, and all our American brethren, minus Cuba and Ecuador, will too. They will talk about their economies, energy supplies, trade agreements, and commerce. They will talk about drugs, of course, and the insatiable US appetite for them. But they will not be talking about whether classes in Hispanic studies are inherently anti-Anglo."
