OP-EDS
July 4, 2006
Let's Make Sure a 'Flat World' Doesn't Turn into a Desert
Daily Star
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
July 3, 2006
The U.S. and Turkey: Rebuilding a fractured alliance
International Herald Tribune
By Dr. Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall, Former Founding Senior Advisor, Preventive Defense Project and Steven Cook
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall in the International Herald Tribune.
July 3, 2006
Finishing the War on Terrorism
Boston Globe
By Bob Graham, Former Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2005-2006
THE US SENATE has just completed a contentious and partisan debate on when and under what conditions America should withdraw its troops from Iraq. Within hours of the debate's end, the White House indicated it was developing a plan to draw down troop levels in Iraq, beginning as early as this fall. Iraq was a distraction from our primary threats. Our country has paid a high price in lives, national honor, and resources for that mistake.
June 22, 2006
If Necessary, Strike and Destroy: North Korea Cannot Be Allowed to Test This Missile
Washington Post
By Dr. William J. Perry, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project and Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil? We believe not. If North Korea persists in its launch preparations, the United States should immediately make clear its intention to strike and destroy the North Korean Taepodong missile before it can be launched.
June 21, 2006
Zimbabwe Needs Help If It Is to Have a Rose Revolution
Financial Times
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Only Chinese entrepreneurs and Robert Mugabe, president, are profiting from the complete economic and moral collapse of once proud and prosperous Zimbabwe.
June 18, 2006
Hurricanes are an American Problem
Miami Herald
By Bob Graham, Former Senior Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2005-2006
The 2006 hurricane season began on June 1. Floridians approached this date with dread. During the last two seasons we have suffered some of the most damaging hurricanes in modern history. In the calm months since then, yet another storm has arisen -- the increasing cost and shrinking availability of insurance for wind driven damage for homes and businesses.
June 15, 2006
"Finding Compromise in Iran"
Boston Globe
By Abbas Maleki, Associate, International Security Program and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
"...If Iran is willing to agree to a deal under which it would remain legally committed not to build nuclear weapons, no more centrifuges would be added, and extensive verification would be allowed, that would be far better for US security than letting insistence on zero propel a drift toward confrontation. After all, failure to reach agreement would mean no limit on Iran's centrifuges, and a drift in the direction of sanctions and potential military strikes, with all the dangers they would hold...."
June 13, 2006
Merge Academia with Scientific Research
The Daily Nation, (Kenya)
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
June 12, 2006
Flights of Fancy; Many Muslim Youth Espouse Jihad as a Fad
Globe and Mail
By Jessica Stern, Former Lecturer in Public Policy; Former Faculty Affiliate, International Security Program
June 6, 2006
"Finish Job in East Timor"
Baltimore Sun
By Michael Boyle, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005-2006
"East Timor, once viewed as a U.N. success story because the world body had backed an Australian intervention to rescue the impoverished island from the grips of the Indonesian army, has become beset by poverty and civil turmoil...."
