Charles G. Cogan
Associate, International Security Program
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Telephone: 617-864-3959
Email: chuck_cogan@harvard.edu
Website: http://www.drcharlesgcogan.net
May 3, 2013
"Out on a Presidential Limb"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"...[I]n the event of a worst-case scenario in which negotiations completely fail, Barack Obama has committed himself to an unprovoked military attack on Iran, which would have a disastrous effect on world public opinion and lead to unpredictable human and material damage."
December 11, 2012
"The Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: What's Been the Blockage"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Suspicion on both sides — Iranian and American — is extremely high. Iranian fear of American-sponsored regime change may seem unrealistic in today's world, but the fact is that Iran was the victim of an American regime change back in 1953."
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September 28, 2012
"American President: Out on a Limb"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"So assuming that negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program will resume after the American presidential elections, as most observers think they will, we will have to see if the policy of stiffing the Iranians — who abhor foreign pressure, in view of their both glorious and inglorious past — will continue not to work; or whether U.S. concessions, which have not been forthcoming so far, will dent the ideological obduracy of the Iranian position."
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September 4, 2012
"Can 120 (Non-Aligned) Countries be Wrong?"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Not particularly relevant during the Cold War, what possibly can the Non-Aligned Movement represent today? The Cold War is over. Has the movement outlived its usefulness? The answer is no, despite the Movement's outmoded Cold War origins. It serves as a rallying point for all those countries who want to push back against what they see as the dominating attitudes and policies of the United States, and to a lesser degree, the West in general."
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June 21, 2012
"The Warfare State: Considering a Military Attack in a Fourth Muslim Country"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Whether or not the U.S. joined in an Israeli bombing of Iran, it would be blamed for it, and it would be seen throughout the world as America's fourth military intervention in a Muslim country."
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June 13, 2012
"Iran: The Solution Is There But the Trust Is Not"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Though military action, with its unpredictable consequences, is to be avoided at all costs, there is very little chance under present circumstances of the above solution being realized. That is why a number of observers of the Iranian scene are advocating the choice of an intermediary, trusted by both sides, to attempt to break the current impasse."
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May 21, 2012
"It Plays Well in Tel Aviv, But How Does It Play in Peoria?"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Invariably, Iranians in and around the academic pressure cooker of Cambridge, Mass. will tell you that the one thing that will not work on the Iranian psyche is threatening language. This may or may not be true. Perhaps we will find out on May 23rd, when the Iranians meet in Baghdad with the West, the Chinese and the Russians on Iran's nuclear program."
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March 28, 2012
"Your Red Lines Are Not Our Red Lines"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Netanyahu's red line is, in effect, a license to attack Iran at any moment of choosing, as the capability to create a nuclear weapon may reside in an Iranian scientist's head. It is not at all the same as the physical manufacture of a nuclear bomb and its delivery vehicle. However, even the United States' red line, if acted upon in a preemptive attack, would be highly destabilizing for the region and the world."
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March 4, 2012
"Turning the Tables On Netanyahu"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"...[T]he United States should stay out of the business of starting unprovoked wars. We have had one disastrous example in the recent past: the American invasion of Iraq in 2003."
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January 17, 2012
"Not Another War, Please!"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Apart from the question, never asked and never answered, as to why Iran cannot have nuclear weapons while India and Pakistan can, there is the lassitude that has set in over the successive wars in Afghanistan — which has lasted much too long — and Iraq — which has been essentially fruitless. A new war is certainly to be avoided, if possible."
