EUROPE
October 13, 2012
"Why Europe Deserved the Peace Prize"
Op-Ed, CNN.com
By Pierpaolo Barbieri, Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program
"With all its imperfections, Europe today is the largest single market in the world, featuring effective anti-trust regulations, curtailing economic nationalism, and promoting free trade agreements with counties as far away as Asia and Latin America. New potential members are eager to join, from booming Turkey to crisis-ridden Iceland. Despite all the talk of stalling, Turkish membership will eventually come to pass."
October 8, 2012
"Europe's New Fascists"
Op-Ed, Newsweek
By Niall Ferguson, Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
“It can be a mistake to laugh at fascists,” writes the Belfer Center’s Niall Ferguson, “Charlie Chaplin mocked Hitler and Mussolini in The Great Dictator. P.G. Wodehouse had fun with his preposterous parody of Oswald Mosley, Roderick Spode. But Nazism turned out to be no joke.... So when a party called “Golden Dawn”—which has something that looks a lot like a swastika as its logo— starts denying aspects of the Holocaust and heaping opprobrium on immigrants, it’s best to keep a straight face. Sure, they’re Greeks, not Germans... But if elections were held tomorrow, these guys could become the third-largest party in the Greek Parliament.”
Fall 2012
"Two Concepts of Liberty: U.S. Cold War Grand Strategies and the Liberal Tradition"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 37
By Brendan Rittenhouse Green, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2009–2011
Contrary to conventional accounts, the United States did not immediately adopt a balancing strategy against the Soviet Union after World War II. Rather, the Eisenhower administration sought U.S. withdrawal from Western Europe by pursuing a buck-passing strategy. Only under the Kennedy administration did the United States begin to make permanent commitments to the defense of Europe. A new theory analyzes this shift in policy, defining those who sought to withdraw from Europe as “negative liberals” and those who sought firmer balancing commitments as “positive liberals.”
September 2012
Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention
Book
By David L. Phillips, Former Non-Resident Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project
In Liberating Kosovo, David Phillips offers a compelling account of the negotiations and military actions that culminated in Kosovo's independence. Drawing on his own participation in the diplomatic process and interviews with leading participants, Phillips chronicles Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power, the sufferings of the Kosovars, and the events that led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. He analyzes how NATO, the United Nations, and the United States employed diplomacy, aerial bombing, and peacekeeping forces to set in motion the process that led to independence for Kosovo.
October 3, 2012
"Why We Need Innovation To Prepare For the Global Aging Society"
Op-Ed, Forbes
By Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
"Technology alone will not be adequate to address the needs of the elderly. But policy proposals that fail to take into account advances in medicine and engineering are unlikely to take advantage of human creativity. In fact, strategies that put the elderly at the center of the innovation process could significantly increase the prospects of turning the elderly from being a burden on society to being an asset."
September 28, 2012
"Fed joins ECB in a high-risk move"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
The Federal Reserve has now embarked on a very dangerous strategy, buying $40bn of mortgage-backed securities each month for an indefinite number of years. That could lead to high inflation, to destabilising asset bubbles and to legislative changes that limit the Fed’s future powers.
September 19, 2012
"Georgia’s Rowdy Election Campaign"
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By David Ignatius, Senior Fellow, Future of Diplomacy Project
Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, examines the upcoming election in Georgia and the Georgian government under current President Mikheil Saakashvili.
September 19, 2012
"Britain Risks a Lost Decade Unless it Changes Course"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Americans can take some comfort in knowing they are rebounding from the 2008 financial collapse faster than their British counterparts, writes Lawrence Summers. With the U.K. growth rate lagging, Summers says, British leaders face the choice of changing course after four years of failed economic policy, or doubling down on the same aggresive fiscal consolidation that has yet to generate demand or provide the growth needed.
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September 13, 2012
"It's the Syrians Who Will Pay for Murders of Americans in Libya"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"The argument for involvement in Syria can no longer hide behind the shadows of Libya. The tragedy will have tremendous consequences for how the United States can and will position its Syrian strategy. Libya is simply no longer a compelling piece of evidence in favor of Syrian intervention."
August 27, 2012
"London Could Show How to Build a Better Olympics"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Juliette Kayyem, Lecturer in Public Policy
"London opened the way to a more sustainable model — a way to make the games pay off both in pride and in long-term improvements, without frittering away too much money on pointless frills. The International Olympic Committee is well aware that fewer cities are making bids to host the games; it, too, is concerned about sustainability. For every Sydney, which capitalized on the games to turn an Australian brownfield into a popular and permanent suburb, there is an Athens, whose costly preparations for 2004 are often viewed as the beginning of Greece's financial demise."
