ARTICLES AND OP-EDS
July 22, 2005
"Best Defense against Terror is the Cop on the Beat"
Newsday
By Elaine Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy
"Terrorism is not a law-enforcement problem. It is much more serious than a numbers racket in the South Bronx. But so far the record is clear. Smart cops stop terrorists, smart weapons don't. Maybe the front lines of the war on terror should be the precinct houses of every big city in the Western world.
We should spend more money and more time making the average experienced cop on the beat part of our war on terror...."
July 22, 2005
Diplomacy Is Back at the State Department!
Wall Street Journal
By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
July 15, 2005
Time to Pull Out. And Not Just From Iraq.
New York Times
By John M. Deutch, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
July 14, 2005
We Still Have a Lot to Learn
The Guardian
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
July 10, 2005
"Tortured Arguments: The Rules Are for Us, Not the Terrorists"
Washington Post, Sunday Outlook
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
Like every other country, the United States has, in the name of security, made mistakes that we admit only later. What separates us from those regimes we abhor isn't that we never act cruelly. It's that we reject, rather than defend, our departures from our ideals and we actively seek to prevent such abuses from happening again.
July 8, 2005
Terrorists Strike in London: 'New Normal' Must Prompt Greater Preparation
San Francisco Chronicle
By Daniel B. Prieto, Former Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Former Research Director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative, 2004-2005
July 3, 2005
Nuclear Good News
Boston Globe
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
ON THE SIDELINE of this week's G8 Summit at Gleneagles, US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet one on one. Atop their agenda will be commitments they made four months ago in Bratislava to address an issue even more important to the well-being of Russian and American citizens than African aid and climate change, the issues that will headline the G8.
AP Images
July, 2005
Nuclear Accountability
Technology Review, An MIT Enterprise
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Scenario one: If North Korea fired a nuclear-armed missile that devastated an American city, how would the U.S. government respond? The state-sponsored attack would fit within the Cold War paradigm; therefore, the certain American response would be an overwhelming retaliation aimed at destroying Pyongyang, Kim Jong Il's nuclear and missile programs, and North Korea's million-man army. Such a response would result in enormous collateral damage, killing millions of North Koreans. Despite reservations about the morality of such a response, those who established the Cold War nuclear doctrine recognized -- and accepted -- the unintended deaths of millions of innocents. Whoever occupied the White House during such a nuclear attack would understand this also.
Summer 2005
The Sinatra Doctrine— Book Review of Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential by Gene Sharp
Harvard International Review, issue 2, volume XXVII
By Jeremy Jones, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program/The Dubai Initiative, 2004–2007
July, 2005
All Weapons of Mass Destruction are Not Equal
MIT Center for International Studies Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, volume 05-8
By Allison Macfarlane, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
