A special report by Selig Harrison detailing recommendations for both the Pakistani government's stance towards minorities and U.S. policy toward the region...
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The Asia Project focuses on creating innovative policy solutions to current issues in Asia and the Middle East, as well as the dissemination of information regarding human rights crises throughout the region. Our work focuses on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and North Korea, and special emphasis is given to how the United States can disengage from Afghanistan in cooperation with the United Nations and neighboring countries. On India-Pakistan relations, the program examines the disruptive role of Pakistan-based Islamist groups. On North Korea, it discusses scenarios for denuclearization centering on a resumption of China’s regional role figure prominently in the program: its growing involvement in Pakistan at the expense of Indian interests, and its relations with Taiwan. Given the decline in tensions between China and Taiwan, the project seeks to block U.S. policy moves in Taiwan that could poison Sino-U.S. relations, especially the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft, and considers the proposal for phasing out the Taiwan Relations Act made by Vice-Admiral William Owens, former Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
By Selig S. Harrison
Apr-06-2009 | Report
In a special report, Selig Harrison discusses recommendations for both the Pakistani government's stance on minorities and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. ... Read More »
By Selig S. Harrison
Dec-04-2006 | Report
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.... Read More »
By Vincent Parascandolo, Lourdes Villanueva, Caitlin Ward
Nov-06-2006 | Conference Report
This report summarizes the findings of a symposium on the topic, “Nuclear Turning Point: Does the Quest for U.S. Nuclear Dominance Undermine Non-Proliferation?,” sponsored by the Center for International Policy and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) on May 8, 2006.... Read More »
By Laura Carlsen
Dec-13-2011 | Article
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... Read More »
By Selig S. Harrison
Aug-01-2011 | Article
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... Read More »
By Selig S. Harrison
May-04-2011 | Article
The bin Laden raid is just the latest unilateral encroachment on Pakistani territory. Reports of official pushback are ... Read More »
Selig S. Harrison quoted
"Kim Jong Il has been more than a frontman, but less than the totalitarian leader his father was, able to just issue diktats and do whatever he wanted to do," says Selig Harrison...Read More »
Selig S. Harrison quoted
The North Koreans "have made a strategic decision," said Selig S. Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington....Read More »
Selig S. Harrison quoted
"Yes, this does look at India on an individual basis, but it also rewards a worthy country for its very good performance on nuclear proliferation, and in that sense it reflects a desirable change in US policy," says Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington....Read More »
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