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    <title><![CDATA[Asia Project |Commentary | CIP RSS Feeds]]></title>
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    <description>Articles, Letters, Op-eds, Policy Briefs, Testimony</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ALERT: Spate of Attacks on Human Rights Defenders and Activists]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/alert-spate-of-attacks-on-human-rights-defenders-and-activists</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/alert-spate-of-attacks-on-human-rights-defenders-and-activists#When:15:54:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mexican human rights defenders have been under attack over the past weeks. The murders of Nepomuceno Moreno of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), whose son was forcibly disappeared apparently by government security forces in Sonora]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Americas Program, Asia Project, Americas, Mexico, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-13T15:54:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Simmering Discord in the Tribal Badlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands#When:15:32:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The alarming growth of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pashtun tribal region of northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan is usually attributed to the popularity of their messianic brand of Islam and to covert help from Pakistani intelligence agencies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-08-01T15:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Encroachment Infuriates, Radicalizes Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis#When:17:04:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The bin Laden raid is just the latest unilateral encroachment on Pakistani territory. Reports of official pushback are ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-04T17:04:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Blame Italy for Libya]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/blame_italy_for_libya</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/blame_italy_for_libya#When:11:12:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The bombs will no doubt still be dropping next year when Libya marks the passing of a century since its ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Africa, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-28T11:12:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistani Terrorists Eye U.S.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us#When:11:20:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The current crisis between Pakistan and the United States centers on one key little-discussed issue: Will Islamabad disarm its most formidable Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) which staged the 2008 attack on Mumbai and now openly threatens to carry its jihad to America?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-26T11:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Playing Nice with North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/playing_nice_with_north_korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/playing_nice_with_north_korea#When:11:56:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[North Korea can make concessions to a visiting ex-president without losing face. This was dramatically illustrated ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-15T11:56:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons and the Libyan Intervention]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nuclear_weapons_and_libyan_intervention</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nuclear_weapons_and_libyan_intervention#When:13:42:01Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As he faces the US-NATO onslaught in the weeks ahead, will Muammar Qaddafi conclude that he made a ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Africa, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-11T13:42:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Averting an Indo-Pak Disaster]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster#When:15:16:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[January 1989. That was the brief interlude of hope when Benazir Bhutto and Rajiv Gandhi, the then-Prime ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-24T15:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons in Japan? Not in the Wake of Tragedy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nuclear_weapons_in_japan_not_in_the_wake_of_tragedy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/nuclear_weapons_in_japan_not_in_the_wake_of_tragedy#When:15:29:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[One of the most important consequences of the tsunami tragedy in Japan has received no attention. Japan's ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-23T15:29:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis#When:10:10:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-16T10:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zardari&#8217;s Courage]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage#When:12:50:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To promote a détente, the U.S.should support Pakistan's embattled president, Asif Ali Zardari, in his escalating struggle with the generals in Islamabad over the terms of peace with New Delhi.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-05T12:50:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Futile Message to Pyongyang]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-futile-message-to-pyongyang</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-futile-message-to-pyongyang#When:08:36:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[South Korea's air force has been dropping balloons with leaflets into North Korea describing the struggle to oust ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-04T08:36:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[America Builds Pashtunistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan#When:08:40:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pressures to stop drone attacks on suspected terrorist hideouts in the tribal border regions of Pakistan focus properly ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-28T08:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[&#8220;Principled&#8221; Hawks Risk North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/principled-hawks-risk-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/principled-hawks-risk-north-korea#When:08:58:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With North Korea facing an acute food shortage, the United States should offer a long-term food aid commitment to ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-23T08:58:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Shouldn&#8217;t Interfere with man&#8217;s trial in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan#When:10:36:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A pistol-packin' private American security contractor on a motorcycle kills two Pakistani civilians allegedly attempting ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-08T10:36:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Chinese Civil War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-chinese-civil-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-chinese-civil-war#When:12:08:04Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When China recently unveiled a radar-evading stealth fighter jet and an anti-ship ballistic missile that could hit US aircraft carriers, a century of U.S. military dominance in the Pacific ended.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-07T12:08:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free Baluchistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan#When:09:07:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As the Islamist nightmare envelops Pakistan, the Obama administration ponders what the United States should do. But the bitter reality is that the United States is already doing too much in Pakistan. It is the American shadow everywhere, the Pakistani feeling of being smothered by the U.S. embrace, that gives the Islamists their principal rallying cry.
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-01T09:07:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mumbai&#8217;s American dead continue to go unavenged]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged#When:09:58:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the days of the Barbary pirates, the infant U.S. Navy swiftly avenged attacks on American lives and property. But after six Americans were among the more than 160 killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, America's leaders wrung their hands and did nothing.
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-21T09:58:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[China&#8217;s North Korean Calculations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-north-korean-calculations</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-north-korean-calculations#When:10:12:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When President Obama hosts the Chinese president, Hu Jintao, in Washington later this month, North Korea is certain to be high on the agenda. But as in the past, Beijing is likely to use its leverage with Pyongyang only if a major war threatens.
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-06T10:12:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drawing a Line in the Water]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drawing-a-line-in-the-water</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drawing-a-line-in-the-water#When:08:55:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[THE crisis in the Yellow Sea, which was set off by the North Korean shelling of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island last month, is probably mystifying to many Americans. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-12-12T08:55:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selig S Harrison: US Role and Indo-Pak Ties]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties#When:14:46:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[“Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India” — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama’s visit to New Delhi explains why]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-11T14:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan Divides U.S. and India]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india#When:09:09:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India" — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama's visit to New Delhi explains why a quiet crisis is developing in what seems, on the surface, to be an increasingly promising relationship between the world's two largest democracies.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-08T09:09:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The New Faces of Reform in North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-new-faces-of-reform-in-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-new-faces-of-reform-in-north-korea#When:17:23:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[KIM JONG-IL’S bold moves to strengthen his grip on the Workers Party, the Army, and the bureaucracy in North Korea mark an important victory for the advocates of economic ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-13T17:23:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Stabilize Chinese Relations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-stabilize-chinese-relations</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-stabilize-chinese-relations#When:12:25:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As fears of a prolonged recession grow, so does the need to stabilize U.S. economic relations with China. 
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Win Without War, Asia Project, Asia, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-09-30T12:25:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Discrete Hold on Pakistan&#8217;s Northern Borderlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands#When:12:29:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-26T12:29:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Leave Afghanistan Without Losing]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-leave-afghanistan-without-losing</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-leave-afghanistan-without-losing#When:12:40:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As prospects for an early U.S.-NATO military victory in Afghanistan fade and pressures for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces grow, the ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T12:40:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Smart Pashtun Play: Why Washington Should Back Karzai]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-washington-should-back-karzai</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-washington-should-back-karzai#When:20:00:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the U.S. struggles to get its act together in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai, widely ridiculed as corrupt and ineffectual, is consolidating his power ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-05T20:00:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Aid Fuels Dangerous Deal in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan#When:10:46:06Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With one hand, Pakistan scoops up its multiplying millions in US aid. With the other, it buys nuclear reactors from China that will give it the capability to add 24 nuclear weapons per year to its estimated existing arsenal of 70 to 90]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-29T10:46:06+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line#When:11:26:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-05-11T11:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Should U.S. Keep &#8216;First Use&#8217; Option?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/should-us-keep-first-use-option</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/should-us-keep-first-use-option#When:12:03:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When should the U.S. use nuclear weapons? Most Americans would no doubt reply: when and if it is attacked with nuclear weapons. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-04-06T12:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Bomb Wasn’t Banned]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-bomb-wasnt-banned</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-bomb-wasnt-banned#When:11:50:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Although the Nobel peace prize committee believed Barack Obama is passionately committed to nuclear downsizing, if not disarmament, the US president may be no more]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-04-01T11:50:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iraq, Iran, and the United States]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-iran-united-states</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-iran-united-states#When:13:41:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The 2003 American invasion of Iraq aroused both anxiety and hope in Iran. The advent of U.S. military forces and bases on its western border posed a potential threat to its security.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-17T13:41:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tehran&#8217;s Biggest Fear]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tehrans-biggest-fear</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tehrans-biggest-fear#When:13:55:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T13:55:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Exit Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-exit-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-exit-afghanistan#When:12:57:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With the Taliban growing steadily stronger, 30,000 more US troops will not lead to the early disengagement from the Afghan quagmire envisaged by President Obama]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-22T12:57:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig Harrison, Director, Asia Program, Center for International Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international#When:14:41:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Scripture for me on the subject of Pakistan is an important book called the Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India’s Partition, by Narendra Singh Sarila, a retired Indian diplomat who was the ADC to Mountbatten.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-21T14:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Kabul to Kashmir]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir#When:15:20:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[By all rights, the United States and India should be bound together by the shared tragedies of 9/11 and last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-13T15:20:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Ethnic Split]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-ethnic-split</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-ethnic-split#When:16:52:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Alexander the Great, the British Raj and the Red Army all learned the hard way that the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest and historically dominant ethnic group]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-21T16:52:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Overcoming Our Failed Strategy Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/overcoming-our-failed-strategy-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/overcoming-our-failed-strategy-afghanistan#When:16:57:32Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[THE KEY to getting out of Afghanistan without turning Kabul over to the Taliban lies in replacing the failed US “Af-Pak’’ strategy with a new regional approach]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-12T16:57:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s Tyranny of the Minority]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistans-tyranny-of-the-minority</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistans-tyranny-of-the-minority#When:14:49:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[AS the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42 percent of the population of 33 million]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-16T14:49:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Other Islamist Threat in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1#When:14:39:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The danger of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan is real. But it does not come from the Taliban guerrillas now battling the Pakistan Army in the Swat borderlands.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-06-17T14:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bill Richardson or Al Gore?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bill-richardson-or-al-gore</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bill-richardson-or-al-gore#When:14:54:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Diplomatic scenarios for negotiating the release of two captured U.S. journalists now held in North Korea focus on proposed visits by Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and former Vice President Gore, who founded Current TV, which the journalists represent.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-05-15T14:54:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1#When:17:10:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and simmering ethnic tensions that have been exacerbated by U.S. pressures for military action against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-05-11T17:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Face Down Pakistani Army]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army#When:11:09:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Unless the Obama administration can get Pakistan's army to stop supporting the Taliban with weapons and logistical support, the insurgency will continue to threaten the U.S.-supported Kabul government — no matter how many more troops the U.S. sends to Afghanistan.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-04-01T11:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Living With a Nuclear North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/living-with-a-nuclear-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/living-with-a-nuclear-north-korea#When:11:58:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Will North Korea ever give up its nuclear weapons? To test its intentions, I submitted a detailed proposal to Foreign Ministry nuclear negotiator Li Gun for a "grand bargain" in advance of a visit to Pyongyang last month. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-02-17T11:58:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kashmir Issue Leading Obama into First &#8216;Tar Pit&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit#When:13:42:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign-policy mistake - pledging U.S. intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.  While the Kashmir issue "is obviously a tar pit diplomatically," he announced, one of the "critical tasks" for his administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-01-06T13:42:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Normalize and Disarm]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/normalize-and-disarm</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/normalize-and-disarm#When:12:30:19Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[North Korea blinked first in its latest diplomatic showdown with the United States. In return for its]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-10-29T12:30:19+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[India’s Terrorist Problem]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/indias-terrorist-problem</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/indias-terrorist-problem#When:15:51:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The main focus of the Bush administration's war on terror has been countering the threat posed by ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-10-17T15:51:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support to Pakistan Distorts Asia&#8217;s Balance of Power]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power#When:15:00:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan sinks deeper into political gridlock and Al Qaeda continues to operate unhindered in its territory, but the Pentagon gravy train bringing American weaponry for its armed forces races full speed ahead on autopilot]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-09-27T15:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iraq, Bush and the &#8216;Time Horizon&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-bush-and-the-time-horizon</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-bush-and-the-time-horizon#When:15:54:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Iran is never mentioned when President George W. Bush explains what led to his surprising acceptance]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-28T15:54:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Obama Could Tame Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-obama-could-tame-iran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-obama-could-tame-iran#When:15:58:14Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Assume that Barack Obama is elected U.S. president this fall and makes good on his promise to ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-26T15:58:14+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Get a Grip on Dhaka]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/get-a-grip-on-dhaka</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/get-a-grip-on-dhaka#When:16:31:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the CIA and the Pentagon search in Vain for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of northwest]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-02T16:31:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[All-out war - or talking?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/all-out-war-or-talking</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/all-out-war-or-talking#When:16:43:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Did President Bush recognize that invading Iraq and destroying a dictatorship controlled by the Sunni ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-05-27T16:43:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iran, Iraq, and the United States: The View from Tehran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-iraq-and-the-united-states-view-from-tehran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-iraq-and-the-united-states-view-from-tehran#When:15:05:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig S. Harrison, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director, Asia Program, Center for Intern]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T15:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Working with Iran to Stabilize Iraq]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/working-with-iran-to-stabilize-iraq</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/working-with-iran-to-stabilize-iraq#When:16:47:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[International concern over Iran's nuclear program continues to smolder. But from Iran's perspective ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-03-20T16:47:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pressuring Pakistan to Curb the Taliban]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban#When:16:05:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite growing evidence of Pakistani support for the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Bush ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-02-19T16:05:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What A.Q. Khan Knows]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows#When:15:52:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Either Kim Jong Il or Pervez Musharraf is lying about whether Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove, Abdul]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-01-31T15:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The US Meddles Aggressively in Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-us-meddles-aggressively-in-iran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-us-meddles-aggressively-in-iran#When:15:28:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The battle lines are familiar and clearly drawn in the unresolved policy struggle over Iran within the Bush administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-13T15:28:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sanctions Won&#8217;t Stop Tehran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sanctions-wont-stop-tehran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sanctions-wont-stop-tehran#When:15:17:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Suppose that the Bush administration abandons its campaign for economic sanctions, tones down talk of war and opens direct negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-02T15:17:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iran is America&#8217;s Best Hope for Stability in the Gulf]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-is-americas-best-hope-for-stability-in-the-gulf</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-is-americas-best-hope-for-stability-in-the-gulf#When:15:35:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Iran is ready to help the US stabilise both Iraq and Afghanistan, but only for a price]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-06-20T15:35:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Preserve the North Korean Nuclear Deal]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-preserve-north-korean-nuclear-deal</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-preserve-north-korean-nuclear-deal#When:14:40:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[John Bolton’s body is out of the State department,” commented Christopher Hill, US negotiator with North Korea, over lunch, “but his hand is still in.” ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-02-26T14:40:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Discarding an Afghan Opportunity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/discarding-an-afghan-opportunity</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/discarding-an-afghan-opportunity#When:14:43:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The British Raj learned the hard way a century ago that the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest and historically dominant ethnic group, will unite to fight a foreign occupation force simply because it is foreign. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-30T14:43:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[London Speech on Balochistan (audio)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan#When:14:52:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Selig Harrison's speech on Balochistan at FPC Seminar in London ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-01T14:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Unravelling of Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan#When:13:08:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan gets American attention primarily because it is a hotbed of Al Qaeda activity and a staging area for the Taliban campaign to recapture Afghanistan. But the most important and least-noticed news about multi-ethnic Pakistan is that it is slowly falling apart as tensions grow between its Punjabi-dominated military regime and its restive ethnic minority regions of Baluchistan and Sindh.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-11-01T13:08:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Seeking a Solution After North’s Reckless Act]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/seeking-a-solution-after-norths-reckless-act</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/seeking-a-solution-after-norths-reckless-act#When:13:20:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The United States has built a missile defense system that does not work, to defend against a North Korean missile that does not work, that would carry a nuclear warhead that does not work.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-24T13:20:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks at a Forum on Bangladesh Elections]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-at-a-forum-on-bangladesh-elections</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-at-a-forum-on-bangladesh-elections#When:16:03:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig S. Harrison at a Forum on “The Bangladesh Elections: Promoting Democracy and Protecting Rights in a Muslim-Majority Country]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-17T16:03:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[In a Test, a Reason to Talk]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-a-test-a-reason-to-talk</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-a-test-a-reason-to-talk#When:16:06:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[But my conversations with six key North Korean leaders on a recent visit indicated that the test opens up new diplomatic opportunities and should not be viewed primarily as a military challenge.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-10T16:06:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[North Korea: A Nuclear Threat]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-korea-nuclear-threat</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-korea-nuclear-threat#When:16:20:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely heralded denuclearization agreement with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-06T16:20:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Baluch Insurgency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency#When:16:23:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Serious troubles have erupted in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan since the assassination of an opposition leader in August]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-01T16:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Director Selig S. Harrison&#8217;s &#8220;Report on North Korea&#8221;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-harrison-report-on-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-harrison-report-on-north-korea#When:16:36:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Selig S. Harrison, “Report on North Korea,” presented at the U.S.-Korea Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, September 28, 2006]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-28T16:36:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Director Selig Harrison at a Forum on &#8220;India, The United States, and The World&#8221;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-director-selig-harrison-at-a-forum-on-india-the-united-states</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-director-selig-harrison-at-a-forum-on-india-the-united-states#When:16:39:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig S. Harrison at a Forum on “India, The United States and The World,” Cosmos Club, Washington. September 27,2006]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-27T16:39:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Pakistan Friend or Foe?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe#When:12:57:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is supposedly a key U.S. ally in the "war on terror." But is he, in fact, more of a liability than an asset in combating Al Qaeda and the increasingly menacing Taliban forces in Afghanistan?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-05T12:57:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Bargain]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-forgotten-bargain</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-forgotten-bargain#When:12:41:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the debate over how to stop nuclear proliferation, both sides make increasingly untenable assumptions. The advocates of “regime change” in North Korea and Iran underestimate the staying power of the political systems in Pyongyang and Tehran.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-01T12:41:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A New Hub for Terrorism?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism#When:13:12:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-02T13:12:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[North Korea&#8217;s Embarrassment]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-koreas-embarrassment</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-koreas-embarrassment#When:16:52:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[For North Korean generals, it must have been increasingly exasperating to be told, year after year for the past eight years, not to conduct militarily-important missile tests because they would conflict with foreign policy priorities. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-07-07T16:52:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Regulate Nuclear Weapons The U.S. Deal With India Could Be a Good Starting Point]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point#When:12:12:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Why should India, with a spotless nonproliferation record, be denied access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology for electricity, while China -- which helped Pakistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-04-23T12:12:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Nuclear Partnership with India]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-nuclear-partnership-with-india</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-nuclear-partnership-with-india#When:15:59:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[After decades of tensions with New Delhi, the Bush administration is moving steadily to establish a new strategic partnership to strengthen India as a counterweight to China in the Asian balance of power.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-02T15:59:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Costly &#8216;Other War&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war#When:16:03:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The usual explanation for Pakistan's failure to go all-out against al Qaeda and Taliban forces along the Afghan frontier is that Gen. Pervez Musharraf's armed forces and intelligence services are riddled with Islamic extremists.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-15T16:03:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Roh Balances National Priorities and Alliance with U.S.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/roh-balances-national-priorities-and-alliance-with-us</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/roh-balances-national-priorities-and-alliance-with-us#When:16:06:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In carrying out his election campaign pledge to reshape the U.S.-South Korean alliance, President Roh Moo Hyun has skillfully balanced conflicting national priorities during the first three years of his tenure.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-05T16:06:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Should Scrap Plane Deal With Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1#When:13:17:04Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[PAKISTAN'S decision to postpone the US-subsidized purchase of 77 nuclear-capable F-16 fighter planes from the ailing Lockheed-Martin Corporation provides an opportunity for the Bush administration and Congress to call off a disastrous deal that the United States should never have proposed in the first place.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-27T13:17:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Getting Around Pyongyang&#8217;s Hard-Liners]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/getting-around-pyongyangs-hard-liners1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/getting-around-pyongyangs-hard-liners1#When:16:47:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the standard U.S. image, North Korea is a monolithic, Stalin-style dictatorship controlled by one man, Kim Jong Il. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-10T16:47:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[My Ninth Trip to North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/my-ninth-trip-to-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/my-ninth-trip-to-north-korea#When:17:40:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[During the next three months, North Korea will unload its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, removing fuel rods that can be reprocessed into plutonium for more nuclear weapons. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-04-19T17:40:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selig S. Harrison&#8217;s trip to North Korea from April 5th to April 9th.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-harrisons-trip-to-north-korea-from-april-5th-april-9th</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-harrisons-trip-to-north-korea-from-april-5th-april-9th#When:10:50:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[During the next three months, North Korea will unload its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, removing fuel rods that can be reprocessed into plutonium for more nuclear weapons. Once again, Pyongyang is offering to negotiate a freeze that would prevent further reprocessing, as it did in June, 1994, leading to the Agreed Framework, and as it has repeatedly offered to do in the six-party talks.
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-04-19T10:50:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and the US-North Korea Relations]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-korean-nuclear-crisis-and-us-north-korea-relations</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/north-korean-nuclear-crisis-and-us-north-korea-relations#When:15:48:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The following was prepared for a conference on "The Second Bush Administration and the Korean Peninsula" sponsored by the Sejong Institute]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-04-01T15:48:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[China, North Korea, and the United States]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/china-north-korea-and-the-united-states</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/china-north-korea-and-the-united-states#When:15:50:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Testimony Prepared for a Hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on "China’s Proliferation Practices and Role in]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Advocacy, Testimony,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-03-10T15:50:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crafting Intelligence: Iraq, North Korea, and the Road to War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crafting-intelligence-iraq-north-korea-road-to-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crafting-intelligence-iraq-north-korea-road-to-war#When:11:23:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest numbers out of Iraq are some 11,000 Americans wounded in action and some 1,500 dead. The most conservative estimate of non-combatant Iraqis killed is about 15,700. This is happening because the war was sold to the U.S. Congress on the basis of false and misleading intelligence.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-03-08T11:23:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Riding A Tiger In North Korea]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/riding-a-tiger-in-north-korea</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/riding-a-tiger-in-north-korea#When:11:41:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When you go to Pyongyang, the place to look for the keys to resolving the nuclear crisis is not the Ministry of Atomic Energy, the Foreign Ministry or the headquarters of the Korean]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-05-16T11:41:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Arms Are Not What India and Pakistan Need]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need#When:14:19:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Washington wants to encourage the search for a South Asian peace that was launched by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India and President]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-14T14:19:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Nuclear Loopholes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes#When:14:24:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite multiplying evidence that Iran, North Korea, and Libya have obtained their key nuclear technology from Pakistan, the United States continues to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-09T14:24:40+00:00</dc:date>
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