BROWSE BY PUBLICATION TYPE
2010
"The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Using Force to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation"
Book Chapter
By Martin B. Malin, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
This chapter examines instances in which states have used military force for the purpose of preventing or delaying an adversary’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. What can be learned from past cases? What are the barriers to effective military prevention? Under what conditions has the use of force been successful in proliferation cases? How is the policy perceived by neutral governments and what is the relationship between the perceived legitimacy of military action and its political effectiveness? The chapter reviews all cases in which force was used to attempt to destroy an adversary’s nuclear facilities.
February 8, 2010
"Peace-making Requires Applying the Law"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
BEIRUT -- Of the many long-running conflicts that see two communities competing for the same piece of land, three in particular have always caught my attention: Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and Palestine-Israel. The first is on the way to being resolved through peaceful political negotiations, with another advance this week in the areas of police powers and administration of justice. The Cyprus conflict has long lost its military edge, and shows signs of moving towards a breakthrough, due to both internal leadership changes and external pressures and inducements.
AP Photo
February 8, 2010
"Regionalism in Iran's Foreign Policy"
Op-Ed, 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."
AP Photo
February 5, 2010
"50p Rate was Doomed as the Dome as the Rich are Able to Avoid Taxes"
Op-Ed, 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."
Photo by Sharon Wilke
February 5, 2010
New York Times' Andrew Revkin, American University's Matthew Nisbet, Urge Better Communication on Climate Change
News
By Lucia Cordon
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times' blog "Dot Earth" and Matthew Nisbet, assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University, headlined a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School Thursday on "The Public Divide Surrounding Climate Change."
AP Images
February 4, 2010
"All in the implementation"
Op-Ed, On Leadership at washingtonpost.com
By Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"Developing consensus within the military on how to implement a non-discrimination rule is key to securing support within the armed forces, winning congressional assent and sustaining the current majority approval of openly gay service (as reflected in public opinion polls)."
AP Images
February 4, 2010
"Iran unfolds its fist to slap us in the face"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By William H. Tobey, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"Neither Russia nor China sees a nuclear armed Iran as a threat. All other things being equal, they might prefer Tehran's ayatollahs not to control nuclear weapons, but all other things are not equal. Beijing wants access to oil and gas. Moscow wants to rebuild a geostrategic position in the Middle East, sell conventional arms and nuclear reactors to Iran, and foster a regional power capable of standing up to the United States.
If key administration assumptions about Iran have proven false, what now?"
February 3, 2010
"A Bad Spell of Big Power Behavior"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
BEIRUT -- This has been a revealing but worrying few days for the exercise of power by some of the world's strongest countries. China showed the world that it could be just as silly as other powers in trying to use economic sanctions as punitive diplomatic tools. Hilary Clinton showed that a woman can be just as idiotic as a man when articulating foreign policy principles that also relate to the use of sanctions to change the behavior of other countries. The worst moment of the week, however, was the sight of the snake-like Tony Blair once again showing us how otherwise intelligent, articulate leaders can also comfortably splash around in the underbrush of human deceit and political arrogance.
AP Photo
February 2010
"Climate Change Policies: Many Paths Forward"
Policy Brief
By Paula J. Dobriansky, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Vaughan C. Turekian
The current global economic crisis highlights the fact that environmental objectives exist in a balance with economic growth, a balance that political leaders struggle to find in their own countries and at the global level. The UNFCCC contributes importantly to achieving a healthy balance by providing an overall framework for action to address climate change and as a regular gathering point for diplomats, policymakers, and technical experts from the widest range of countries. As such, it is a unique forum for building partnerships to help countries meet their own national objectives and to forge the consensus needed for success in global efforts to address climate change. It could also help to coordinate international efforts, creating synergies, and avoiding duplication.
February 2, 2010
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky Joins Thomson Reuters
News
By Sasha Talcott, Director of Communications and Outreach
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, who spent the last year as a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will join Thomson Reuters as senior vice president and head of government affairs for the Americas. She will remain affiliated with the Belfer Center as an adjunct senior fellow.
