AMERICAS
April 16, 2006
"Is Time on the Side of Iraq?"
Op-Ed, New York Times, Letter to the Editor
By Robert C. Stowe, Executive Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; Manager, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
The following letter was written in response to David Brooks' op-ed "The Past Meets the Future" which appeared in The New York Times on April 13, 2006.
April 13, 2006
"Tame Oil's Wild Price Ride with a Tax"
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
Volatile oil prices keep energy companies from investing in alternatives. With the onslaught of high oil prices, war in the Middle East, an increasingly bellicose Iran, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, energy security has reemerged as a major public policy priority.
April 4, 2006
Plan B for Persia: Responding to Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program Absent Diplomatic Agreement
Report
Sean P. Hazlett's Policy Analysis Exercise examines U.S. policy options for addressing Iran's nuclear weapons program.
April 2006
"'The Pentagon's Revenge' or Strategic Transformation: The Bush Administration's New Security Strategy"
Journal Article, Strategic Assessment, Published by Tel Aviv's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, issue 1, volume 9
By Chuck Freilich, Senior Fellow, International Security Program
"The strategy has four main objectives: homeland defense, defeating terrorism, preventing WMD proliferation, and developing cooperative agendas with other "centers of global power," primarily China, Russia, and India."
Spring 2006
"Space Weaponization and Space Security: A Chinese Perspective"
Journal Article, China Security, issue 1, volume 2
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"...China is worried about how U.S. space weaponization plans might affect Chinese national security, international security, and protection of the space environment...."
Spring 2006
Toolbox: Containing the Nuclear Red Zone Threat
Journal Article, The American Interest, issue 3, volume 1
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Stephen A. LaMontagne
A multinational solution for keeping states out of the nuclear weapons business.
Spring 2006
"The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 30
By Keir A. Lieber and Daryl Press
Can the United States destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of China and Russia ? Keir Lieber and Daryl Press argue that not only does the United States have a potent first-strike capability, but that the nuclear balance will continue to shift in its favor, creating significant implications for international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
Spring 2006
"The Evolution of U.S.-Indian Ties: Missile Defense in an Emerging Strategic Relationship"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 30
New challenges and threats have caused India to reverse its historical opposition to strategic defenses and embrace missile defense, much to the approval of the United States . This is one indication of the deepening bilateral relationship between these two nations that has become part of New Delhi 's broader efforts to defeat threats that might require such defenses in the future.
Spring 2006
"Correspondence: How Intelligent Is Intelligence Reform?"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 30
By Joshua Rovner, Austin Long and Amy Zegart
Would intelligence reform have prevented al-Qaida from striking the United States without warning on September 11, 2001? Differing arguments put forth by Amy Zegart and her critics, Joshua Rovner and Austin Long, highlight the ambiguity of intelligence reorganization.
Spring 2006
Renewing Good Leadership: Overcoming the Scourges of Africa
Journal Article, Africa Policy Journal, volume 1
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Africa is greatly afflicted by many apocalyptical scourges - HIV/AIDs, tropical diseases like malaria, global warming and frequent bouts of drought, and periodic waves of pestilence, especially locust infestations. It suffers greatly from war: approximately 12 million civilians
have lost their lives in the intrastate battles of the last sixteen years. For all of these reasons,and others, Africa each year lags farther behind Asia and Latin America in economic growth.
attainments; four decades ago Africa was well ahead of Asia.
