Charles G. Cogan
Associate, International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-864-3959
Email: chuck_cogan@harvard.edu
Website: http://www.drcharlesgcogan.net
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July 24, 2012
"'Chess Is the Way We Establish Mastery Over the West'"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Clearly, by the nature of their regimes, neither the Russians nor the Chinese would be expected to countenance the idea of a popular uprising to overthrow a dictatorship. Together China and Russia have formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which can be described as a grouping of counter-revolutionary regimes, the leading members of which are bent on checkmating the West where possible. Iran, another like-minded autocratic power, is an observer member of the Organization."
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July 20, 2012
"Islam May Be the Answer, Democracy is the Solution"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"The Arab world has changed in the last 40 years with the access of people to TV, the Internet and social networks....Autocratic, military-run regimes have been discredited. The people want to be treated with dignity, and to have a say in their future. Democracy is the durable element that has come out of the Arab Spring. It is a place where all can meet on a common ground, without religious-based rancors."
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July 2, 2012
"Pomp, Pederasty, and Peculation — But Also Social Justice"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Justice Roberts is a Catholic, and attended a Catholic grade and a Catholic secondary school. Despite all the downsides of an institution riven by pomp, pederasty and peculation...there is the fact of a social justice component in the Catholic tradition which runs somewhat counter to the mainstream strain of rugged individualism in the American ethos. Those who partake of this tradition might, it seems to me, recoil at the idea of the American population denying health care to an underprivileged minority of... 30 million people."
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June 27, 2012
"Presidency Interruptus: The Possible Curious Fate of Barack Obama"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"Assuming there will be no October surprise, or equivalent, to tarnish the record of the Obama presidency, the incumbent will go down to an honorable defeat this fall. This leaves open the question of 2016, when the United States will be even more diverse than it is now and this would be an assist for Obama. Also, there would be an inevitable erosion of support for a (Romney) presidency."
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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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June 6, 2012
"Take It From Talleyrand: 'It Is Urgent to Wait'"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"...[T]he position of the Russians is not all that comfortable, as with each passing day they lose a grain of credibility in the Sunni Muslim world. Continuing Russian deliveries of arms to the Assad regime which are used to mow down Sunni protesters has not escaped the Muslim world's notice. Sunnis constitute 85 percent of the world's Muslim population and 70–75 percent of the Syrian population."
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May 31, 2012
"'A Revolution Needed to Be Waged and a Union Needed to Be Saved'"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"...Memorial Day wasn't all that inclusive. It began, after the Civil War, as Decoration Day, an annual ceremony at the end of May, in honor of all those who had fallen on the Union side. By the 20th century, what had become Memorial Day had been expanded to include a tribute to honor all Americans who had died in all of the country's wars."
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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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May 15, 2012
"Sarko: Nothing Became Him Like the Manner of His Leaving"
Op-Ed, The Huffington Post
By Charles G. Cogan, Associate, International Security Program
"On May 8th, Sarkozy invited Hollande to be at his side at the lighting of the eternal flame at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Place d'Etoile in Paris, in commemoration of V-E Day. It was an interlude of correctness, if not unity, in the eternal struggle in France between the Left and the Right."
