SOUTH ASIA
Winter 2005-06
"Afghan Officials, Experts Debate Best Steps for Country’s Future"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
An intensive three-day conference hosted y the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution focused on the challenges and opportunities of state building in Afghanistan. Participants agreed that effective reconstruction of Afghanistan depends on strengthening security, reducing poppy production, decreasing the hold of narcoterrorists, improving regional commercial linkages, enhancing a sense of nationhood, and bolstering good governance.
December 2005
"Making the Best Use of India's Coal Resources"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Economic and Political Weekly, issue 52, volume 40
By Ananth Chikkatur, Former Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
The importance of coal for the future of the Indian power sector
cannot be overstated. Yet, the extractable coal reserves in the
country are estimated to last only 50 to 60 years under current
techno-economic conditions.
December 18, 2005
"Afghanistan and Opium"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Vanda Felbab-Brown, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Program on Intrastate Conflict, 2005–2007
"Licensing production of legitimate drugs would not only shrink the size of Afghanistan's illegal economy, it would also provide a sustainable livelihood for the poor peasants, and generate income for the Afghan state."
December 14, 2005
Panel: Nuclear & Non-Nuclear Forces in Twenty-First Century Deterrence: Implementing the New Triad
Presentation
By Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
Remarks by Ashton B. Carter at the 36th IFPA-Fletcher Conference on National Security Strategy and Policy, Washington, DC.
December 5, 2005
Soft Power Matters in Asia
Op-Ed, The Japan Times
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
December 2005
How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict
Book
By Ivan Arreguin-Toft, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2009
"In How the Weak Win Wars, Arreguin-Toft means to convince the reader that when the very strong meet the weak in asymmetric armed conflict, strategy matters more than power. Despite minor excursions in his conclusions, he achieves this goal through expert scholarly analysis and a writing style that elucidates complex topics with facility. His work is extremely relevant in the current geopolitical context and serves as a warning to US policy makers to get military strategy right, regardless of relative power. Arreguin-Toft's argument makes perfectly clear the perilous consequences of neglecting the importance of strategic interaction."
— Edward Bradfield, Harvard International Review (Summer 2005)
Read the entire review.
December 2005
"Until the Sun Grows Cold: Persisting Nuclear Dangers in a Complacent World"
Book Chapter
By Steven E. Miller, Director, International Security Program; Editor-in-Chief, International Security; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Presented as a Plenary Lecture at the 55th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs "60 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
22-27 July 2005, Hiroshima, Japan.
December, 2005
Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women
Journal Article, Journal of Political Economy, issue 6, volume 113
By Emily Oster, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2005-2006
November 18, 2005
Of Might and Right: The Allure of Asia
Op-Ed, The Manila Times
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
November 16, 2005
Defeating the Jihadists
Book
By Richard Clarke, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Eric Rosenbach, Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (on leave), Blake W. Mobley, Glenn P. Age and Lee Wolosky, Former Research Assistant, Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project
The international jihadist network of radical Islamic terrorist groups is far more extensive than just al Qaeda, and it has conducted twice as many attacks in the three years since September 11, 2001 as it did in the three years prior to that date. Defeating the Jihadists: A Blueprint for Action (Century Foundation Press, 2004), assesses the nation's successes and failures on homeland security and calls for a stronger, more effective strategy for dealing with jihadists, including al Qaeda. The report offers a detailed action plan for neutralizing the international movement at the core of worldwide terrorism. The report also describes the nature of the jihadist threat; provides comprehensive profiles of the various jihadist groups; and offers a rationale for the effort and money that would be needed to make the plan a success. The plan presented in the report builds on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and serves as a road map for winning the war against the jihadists.
