PUBLICATIONS
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February 8, 2010
"Regionalism in Iran's Foreign Policy"
Iran Review
By Kayhan Barzegar, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
"The second perspective focuses on the globalization and technological importance of the West, arguing that in the process of globalization and development, Iran needs expanding ties with the centers of science and wealth-creation in the West. From this perspective, forming regional coalitions or Iran's involvement in political and security issues of the Middle East, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, in a contradictory way will only go to further complicate Iran's relations with the West and will impede the country's development."
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February 5, 2010
"50p Rate was Doomed as the Dome as the Rich are Able to Avoid Taxes"
The Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...Labour knew it wouldn't bring in much money. They didn't really do it for the economics. They did it for the politics. The 50p band has symbolic value. They took polls about it in advance and found that asking the rich to contribute more would be popular."
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January 30, 2010
"Cadbury Deal Need Not Leave Such a Bad Taste"
The Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"But the biggest rebuttal to this deal's critics is simple: it belongs to the shareholders. This begs the question of what those who oppose the deal want the government to do. Nationalise Cadbury? Pass a law to forbid it? The truth is that although these critics don't like the deal, they recognise that it will be a decision voted for, ultimately, by its shareholders. Since Cadbury has been a public company, anyone could buy shares in it, and the bald fact is that very few of those shares were owned by members of the Cadbury family. However much Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson express their regret and determination to keep jobs in Britain, all parties know the decision is simply not up to them."
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January 29, 2010
"How Visiting America Changed British Minds"
The Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"Where the inquiry can be the most fruitful, though, is in asking the former prime minister about how he managed to approve a war with such derisory postwar planning. Not even Mr Blair could assert that the years following the Iraq war went well. Many civilians were killed needlessly."
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January 28, 2010
"Memo to Ministers: That's the Way to Do IT"
The Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...[T]he culture in government needs to change from one in which IT projects are regarded as a panacea, to a more hard-headed culture in which they are an investment on behalf of the public, pursued only after rigorous cost-benefit analysis."
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January 28, 2010
"Abolishing a Route into the Armed Forces"
politics.co.uk
By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program
"...[I]t is the flagship recruitment organisation for the future of our military. Senior military officers appreciate that some budget cuts are inevitable, but they are aghast one so significant will be not just scaled back, but abolished in its entirety. While the purpose of the OTC is to provide military and leadership training to future officers, it does much more than that. It also serves to create a civilian leadership more appreciative of the military, and who empathise with our troops."
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January 26, 2010
"Davos: What's the Point?"
Washington Post
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"What good does it do? After attending nearly a score of annual meetings over the years, I have noticed that the conventional wisdom — whether gloom and doom or rise and shine — that summarizes each meeting often proves misleading. But to the extent that this little village in the Alps gets top leaders to raise their eyes above their inboxes and spend even a little time on global and humanitarian issues, it probably helps."
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January 2010
"Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Implications for South Asian Stability"
By Vipin Narang, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
"...[E]xtremist elements in Pakistan have a clear incentive to precipitate a crisis between India and Pakistan, so that Pakistan's nuclear assets become more exposed and vulnerable to theft. Terrorist organizations in the region with nuclear ambitions, such as al-Qaida, may find no easier route to obtaining fissile material or a fully functional nuclear weapon than to attack India, thereby triggering a crisis between India and Pakistan and forcing Pakistan to ready and disperse nuclear assets—with few, if any, negative controls—and then attempting to steal the nuclear material when it is being moved or in the field, where it is less secure than in peacetime locations."
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Winter 2010
"Alternative Nuclear Futures"
Daedalus, issue 1, volume 139
By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom and Scott Sagan, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1981-1982
"Our crystal ball is not clear enough to predict with confidence whether the global nuclear future will be characterized by peace and prosperity or by conflict and destruction. But we do believe that the choices made in the coming few years will be crucial in determining whether the world can have more nuclear power without more nuclear weapons dangers in the future."
January 2010
Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars
By Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy
Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees may not be the best option. She demonstrates that thorough security-sector reform plays a critical role in establishing peace over the long term.
