The bomb wasn’t banned
Le Monde Diplomatique, Apr-01-2010 | Article
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... Read More »
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Defense Secretary Gates Is Not a Diplomat
Truthout, Oct-28-2009 | Article
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has played the "ugly American" in Tokyo, cast in a role he should not be given... Read More »
Afghanistan's Tyranny of the Minority
NY Times, Aug-16-2009 | Article
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... Read More »
The Other Islamist Threat in Pakistan
The Boston Globe, Jun-17-2009 | Article
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.... Read More »
The U.S. and North Korea: The Need for an About Face
The Public Record, Jun-05-2009 | Article
The current drift in U.S. policy toward North Korea is exposing the weakness of President Obama’s foreign policy team, specifically the absence of both a lead strategic voice and an advisor with North Korean expertise. ... Read More »
Bill Richardson or Al Gore?
The Hankyoreh, May-15-2009 | Article
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.... Read More »
Pakistan's Ethnic Fault Line
The Washington Post, May-11-2009 | Article
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... Read More »
India shows us the curse of ‘black money’
Financial Times, Apr-24-2009 | Article
India’s opposition party leader L.K. Advani sparked a political conflagration with pre-election campaign remarks that India was losing tens of billions of dollars each year in illicit financial outflows, or “black money”. ... Read More »
Face Down Pakistani Army
USA Today, Apr-01-2009 | Article
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.... Read More »
Living With a Nuclear North Korea
Washington Post, Feb-17-2009 | Article
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. ... Read More »
