Chuck Freilich
Senior Fellow, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-8898
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: chuck_freilich@harvard.edu
June 13, 2007
"Peace In Our Time?"
Op-Ed, Human Events
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"As yet, no one has devised a fully effective counter-terrorism policy, or for winning in Iraq, or for dealing with Iran. Indeed, there probably is no one single policy, but a cumulative combination of various different approaches."
May 29, 2007
"A Palestinian Refugee Camp?"
Op-Ed, Human Events
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"The "oil curse", not "oil blessing", has been an almost unmitigated calamity for the Arab world, allowing the regimes to buy off those domestic elements whose support they have needed and to keep international pressures for reform, largely American, at bay."
May 2, 2007
"Olmert's Failure"
Op-Ed, Human Events
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"...democracies confront their setbacks, learn from them and make sure to be better prepared in the future...."
March 21, 2007
"Iraq: Consequences of Withdrawal"
Op-Ed, Human Events
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"With the current partisan debate on Iraq raging in Congress, it is time to consider the reality there and consequent United States' options as they truly are, not as many wish."
January 15, 2007
"Saddam's Last Hurrah?"
Op-Ed, BitterLemons.org--Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire, issue 2
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"Saddam did not go to war with Iran, conquer Kuwait or oppress his people because of Israel."
December 1, 2006
"Death of the Mideast Peace Process"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"...we may be witnessing the death pangs of the Middle East "peace process," with significant ramifications for US policy in the region and even globally."
Autumn 2006
"National Security Decision-Making in Israel: Processes, Pathologies, and Strengths"
Journal Article, Middle East Journal, issue 4, volume 60
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
This article presents a first of its kind typology of Israeli national security decision-making processes, focusing on five primary pathologies and a number of strengths.
September 1, 2006
"Hizballah in Lebanon: The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way"
Policy Brief
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"...Israel must face up to reality, draw the appropriate conclusions, make the best of a bad situation, and now seek to turn adversity into long-term advantage. This analysis looks at how the current situation evolved, and possible future steps."
July 6, 2006
"Confronting Iran: A US Security Guarantee for Israel?"
Op-Ed, BitterLemons-International.org -- Middle East Roundtable, issue 25, volume 4
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program and Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; Senior Fellow, International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations
"A treaty would also serve as a long term foundation for US-Israel relations and ensure Israel's standing in the US in the future, at a time when the pro-Israel community may be less influential and the administration and Congress less friendly than they are at present."
April 2006
"'The Pentagon's Revenge' or Strategic Transformation: The Bush Administration's New Security Strategy"
Journal Article, Strategic Assessment, Published by Tel Aviv's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, issue 1, volume 9
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"The strategy has four main objectives: homeland defense, defeating terrorism, preventing WMD proliferation, and developing cooperative agendas with other "centers of global power," primarily China, Russia, and India."
