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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August 16, 2012
"US Would Own the War in Syria"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Ideological justifications for intervention sound morally assuring. But because the world is not united in opposition to Assad, because France and most of Europe are not now calling for intervention, because the Arabs are not clamoring for US action, because Russia and China and Iran are sophisticated opponents, because the United Nations has not been able to gain traction, the United States would have to stand alone at the forefront."
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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."
July 30, 2012
"In Galapagos Islands, Influx Prompts a Harsh Migration Policy"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"In an effort to help save the islands 600 miles into the Pacific Ocean, Ecuador's controversial president, Rafael Correa, has adopted one of the strictest migration enforcement efforts in the history of mankind. It is as though the United States took the same unforgiving rules it uses to limit the influx of foreigners and used them to keep Americans from going to the state of Hawaii."
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July 23, 2012
"As Veteran Population Changes, Services Must Adapt"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Veterans issues fall into three broad categories: benefits for service, health care, and burial needs. The administration of benefits requires greater investments in technology and personnel; burial planning is personal, yet routine. But in health care access, the question is whether a veteran needs to travel to veterans' facilites for routine care. Is a geographically dispersed and centralized system really necessary for a population reducing in size so dramatically?"
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July 19, 2012
"Michelle Bachmann's anti-Muslim Paranoia"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"According to the new wave of anti-Muslim accusations, America's enemy takes the form of a woman in national security who marries a man outside her faith as a decoy to her real intentions, acquires political positions and access to policy makers through her assimilation, and subverts the nation's interests while still propagating."
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July 16, 2012
"Women in Combat are Not a Cause of Sexual Assault, but Could be the Cure"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"What is not a solution is the notion that segregation of the sexes in training or combat will stem assaults. It's unrealistic, panders to stereotypes, and discriminates against women. Worst of all, it may contribute to the violence. The problem of sexual assaults is the product of a system that has thrived on the premise that women are not of equal status, a premise reflected in the combat exclusion rules themselves."
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July 12, 2012
"BC Case Throws Cold Water on IRA, Academia"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Putting aside the fact that the First Amendment doesn't recognize academic research projects as protected entities, universities are — especially when it comes to international security concerns — rarely left alone. Nuclear science programs fall under strict government regulation; administrators must validate the continuing enrollment status of students from other countries."
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July 9, 2012
"Pulling the Plug on Nation's Security"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"But the consequences of what we fear from a cyber enemy — the downing of public and private facilities, impacts on banking, finance, and transportation, and a massive disruption to the public — are exactly what has happened already, because we haven't required more from the good old-fashioned power companies."
