November 30th, 2006

In search of a North Korea policy

"North Korea's declared nuclear bomb test program will increase the incentives for other nations to go nuclear, will endanger security in the region and could ultimately result in nuclear terrorism," CISAC's William Perry, former defense secretary, writes in the Washington Post. The test, he says, establishes North Korea as a nuclear power and demonstrates the failure of the Bush administration's policy toward the nation--a policy Perry describes as "a strange combination of harsh rhetoric and inaction." Read more »

July 3rd, 2006

The U.S. and Turkey: Rebuilding a fractured alliance

Steven A. Cook and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall argue that Turkey is of enormous strategic importance to the United States and Europe, especially at a time when the widening chasm between the West and the Islamic world looms as the greatest foreign policy challenge. Yet Ankara's relations with Washington are strained - over Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, Iran and Hamas - and Turkey's prospects for joining the European Union remain uncertain. Read more »

November 29th, 2004

Needed for Iran: U.S. muscle, European diplomacy

In this International Herald Tribune op-ed, Alan Isenberg suggests that Europe and the United States combine their respective carrot and stick approaches to set firm benchmarks for Iran to comply with international nuclear nonproliferation conventions. Read more »

July 24th, 2003

It's either nukes or negotiation

In a Washington Post editorial, William Perry warns that North Korea could soon be in serial production of nuclear weapons and asserts that a successful policy of negotiation would combine a positive dimension - to reward - with a coercive dimension to induce North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Read more »