Op-eds & Published Articles
The following articles, representing academic and opinion-based writing, were authored by Fletcher community members—faculty, staff, students and alumni—and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Fletcher School, or indicate its commitment to a particular course of action.
| 11.05.09 | The Boston Globe | Paul C. Demakis, F09 Who Ended the Cold War? |
| 11.02.09 | Foreign Policy | Natalie Parke, F08 Terrorizing Aid to Somalia |
| 10.30.09 | The Washington Post | Zeba Khan, F07 The Women of the Web |
| 10.28.09 | GlobalPost | Galen Murton, F10 China's Sunrise, Tibet's Sunset |
| 10.24.09 | Newsweek | Professor Nasr Economics Versus Extremism |
| 10.22.09 | Forced Migration Review | Todd Wassel, F06 Protecting Housing Rights for IDPs in Sri Lanka |
| 10.22.09 | Foreign Affairs | Fred Bergsten, F62 The Dollar and the Deficits |
| 10.20.09 | GlobalPost | Joshua Gross, F10 Dark Side of Democracy |
| 10.19.09 | Iran and the Caucasus | Geoffrey Gresh, F10 Iranian Kurds in an Age of Globalisation |
| 10.15.09 | Tufts Magazine | Professor Salacuse Frames of Mind |
| 10.13.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Joshua Gross, F10 The Road to Stability in Afghanistan Runs Through Pakistan and India |
| 10.13.09 | Recent Publications | James R. Tanenbaum, F72 Exempt and Hybrid Securities and SEC Reporting Issues for Foreign Private Issuers |
| 10.01.09 | Foreign Service Journal | Robert McMahon, GMAP04 Channeling The ColdWar: U.S. Overseas Broadcasting |
| 9.28.09 | Automotive News | Kjell Bergh, GMAP04 Three Decades of American Amnesia |
| 9.25.09 | IP Global Edition | Mehrdad Khonsari, F76 Iran at a Crossroads |
| 9.24.09 | Forthcoming Publication | Michael Klein Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era |
| 9.24.09 | The Detroit Free Press | Bradford Frost, F11 Why I’ll Say I’m From Detroit |
| 9.23.09 | New Voices | Asher Berman, F11 Book Review: "One State, Two States" |
| 9.22.09 | The Huffington Post | Zeba Khan, 07 Muslim Americans Missing From the Political Fray |
| 9.22.09 | The Hill | Joshua Gross, F10 Why Afghanistan is Not Vietnam |
| 9.18.09 | Arab News | Michael Mylrea, F09 Peace and Prosperity in Palestine |
| 9.16.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Rachel Brown Middle East Peace Effort's Missing Key: Female Negotiators |
| 9.16.09 | New Routes Journal | Peter Uvin Corruption and Violence in Burundi |
| 9.16.09 | New Routes Journal | Cheyanne Church and Kirby Reilling, F09 Lilies That Fester: Seeds of Corruption and Peacebuilding |
| 9.16.09 | New Routes Journal | Amy Margolies, F09 Peacebuilding and Anti-corruption: Room for Collaboration? |
| 9.16.09 | New Routes Journal | Matt Herbert, F10 Corrupted Militaries: Criminality, Conflict, and Coercion |
| 9.16.09 | New Routes Journal | Daniel Friedman, F09 Grand Corruption in Colombia’s ‘Parapolitics’ |
| 9.15.09 | The Washington Times | Lawrence Harrison Lessons From Nicaragua - on Making Friends With the Left |
| 9.14.09 | Foreign Policy Journal | Michael Mylrea, F09 A New Security Paradigm is Needed to Protect Critical US Energy Infrastructure From Cyberwarfare |
| 9.14.09 | The Huffington Post | Elin Suleymanov, F04 Making History in Person: A View From Azerbaijan |
| 9.11.09 | World Politics Review | Jamie Lynn De Coster, F10 Somaliland Faces a Tipping Point |
| 9.08.09 | Los Angeles Times | David Abraham, F03 Turning Around on Wall Street |
| 9.04.09 | La Nacion | Jaime Daremblum, F64 A Negotiated Solution in Honduras |
| 9.03.09 | The Washington Post | Andrew Freedman, F10 Response to Climate Depot's Distortions |
| 9.02.09 | Recent Publication | Vali Nasr Forces of Fortune |
| 9.02.09 | Recent Publication | Emma Belcher, F10 (Ph.D. Candidate) A Tighter Net: Strengthening the Proliferation Security Initiative |
| 9.02.09 | ETF XRAY | Carl Delfeld, F81 Red, White & Bold: The New American Century |
| 8.31.09 | International Journal of Operations & Production Management | Lawrence Weiss On the Relationship Between Inventory and Financial Performance in Manufacturing Companies |
| 8.31.09 | Foreign Policy | Daniel Drezner Is Paul Wolfowitz for Real? |
| 8.28.09 | The Diplomatic Courier | Joshua Gross, F10 Why Nepal Matters |
| 8.26.09 | Economic Development and Cultural Change | Steven Block and Patrick Webb Up in Smoke: Tobacco Use, Expenditure on Food, and Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries |
| 8.24.09 | Foreign Policy | Sung-Yoon Lee Ain't No Sunshine |
| 8.24.09 | The United States Institute of Peace | Louis Aucoin Building the Rule of Law in Haiti: New Laws for a New Era |
| 8.19.09 | The Financial Times | Fred Bergsten, F62 America Cannot Resolve Global Imbalances on Its Own |
| 8.14.09 | U.S. News & World Report | Ari Axelrod Biofuels' Technology and Performance Issues Could Slow Acceptance |
| 8.12.09 | Recent Publication | James F. Alexander, F00 The International Criminal Court and the Prevention of Atrocities: Predicting the Court's Impact |
| 8.11.09 | iCi CEMAC (Cameroon) | David Clalude, F10 Paul Biya’s Regime is one of the Most Corrupt in the World |
| 8.10.09 | World Politics Review | Natalie Parke, F08 Time to Stop Meddling in Somalia |
| 8.09.09 | The Jakarta Post | Anak Agung Gde Agung, F73 Bali is Reaching a Crossroads |
| 8.07.09 | Le Monde Diplomatique | Ibrahim Warde King of the Sting |
| 8.05.09 | The Mideast Monitor | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Electoral Reform in Lebanon |
| 8.05.09 | Foreign Policy Journal | Michael Mylrea, F09 The US Will Lose its Battle in Cyberspace Without a Leader at the Helm |
| 8.03.09 | The Mideast Peace Pulse | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Lebanon in the aftermath of the June 2009 elections: Facing the National-Unity Government Challenge |
| 7.30.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Lawrence Harrison Reflections on Race |
| 7.30.09 | The Huffington Post | Matt Herbert, F10 Islamic Finance and Mobile Banking: Could, Would, Should |
| 7.26.09 | The Washington Post | Edward Schumacher-Matos, F72 Inflaming Honduras |
| 7.23.09 | Newsweek | Mohammed J. Herzallah, F10 Civil Sore |
| 7.23.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Joshua Gleis, F05, F09 Watch out for an Iranian Backlash |
| 7.20.09 | The Far Eastern Economic Review | Sung-Yoon Lee Target Pyongyang's Palace Economy |
| 7.15.09 | The National Interest | Daniel Drezner The False Hegemon |
| 7.13.09 | The Huffington Post | Joshua Gleis, F05, F09 Religious Divisions in Iran's Leadership -- More Than Meets the Eye |
| 7.10.09 | Business Daily | Toru Mino, F10 Will The Real Banks, Please Stand Up? |
| 7.06.09 | The Jakarta Post | Anak Agung Gde Agung, F73 Balinese Cosmology for a Universal Code of Behavior |
| 7.02.09 | The Huffington Post | Joshua Gleis, F05, F09 Technology Rules the Day Again in Iranian Uprising |
| 7.01.09 | USA Today | William Martel Pull Back, No Matter What |
| 7.01.09 | Recent Publication | Erich Wagner, F08 Sojourning Sacred Ground: Tips on Visiting Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift |
| 6.23.09 | The Financial Times | Fred Bergsten, F62 Obama Needs to be Bold on Trade |
| 6.23.09 | World Politics Review | Marcia Greenberg, F91 The Challenges and Opportunities of Gender Equality in Development |
| 6.15.09 | Real Clear World | Joshua Gross, F10 Hezbollah, Engagement, and U.S. Options |
| 6.08.09 | Newsweek | Daniel Drezner Can China Topple The Dollar? |
| 6.01.09 | Foreign Affairs | Elizabeth C. Economy and Adam Segal, F93 The G-2 Mirage |
| 5.31.09 | The News | Zahid F. Ebrahim, F93 Regulate Not Strangulate Media |
| 5.30.09 | The Independent | Nadim Rouhana This Suppression is Symbolic of a State That Fears its Past |
| 5.28.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Lawrence E. Harrison What Will America Stand for in 2050? |
| 5.26.09 | Eurasian Home Analytical Resource | Maria Yulikova, F10 Is it Possible to Improve Russia-US Relations? |
| 5.27.09 | Business Daily | Matthew Herbert, F10 How M-Banking can Reduce Laundering |
| 5.14.09 | The National Interest | Daniel Drezner Dead Elephants |
| 5.14.09 | Recent Publication | Fred Bergsten, F62 The Long-Term International Economic Position of the United States |
| 5.13.09 | Recent Publication | Sailesh S. Radha, F07 Five Days in White Flannels |
| 5.08.09 | The Huffington Post | Rachel Brown, F10 On Mother's Day: A Message of Hope and Survival |
| 5.08.09 | Recent Publication | Kwang Kim, F99 and Ken Hynes, F02 In the River They Swim |
| 5.06.09 | RGE Monitor | Michael Klein Not Yet an Inflation Nation |
| 5.01.09 | America.gov | Joel P. Trachtman Global Financial Trouble: Causes, Cures, Responses |
| 5.01.09 | The Jakarta Post | Mort Abramowitz and Natalie Parke, F08 ASEAN's Continuing Dilemma |
| 4.30.09 | U.S. News & World Report | William Martel Tea Party Politics From Colonial Boston to the Obama Bailouts |
| 4.21.09 | Asian Journal of Public Affairs | Ivan Rasmussen, F09 Torture in the United States and China: Comparing American and Chinese Exceptionalism with Respect to the United Nations Convention Against Torture |
| 4.16.09 | Foreign Policy Journal | Michael Mylrea, F09 Winning the War on Drugs in Mexico: Sí, se Puede! |
| 4.15.09 | Investopedia | Brian Perry, F10 Riding The Market Bubble: Don't Try This At Home |
| 4.08.09 | The Financial Times | Fred Bergsten, F62 We Should Listen to Beijing’s Currency Idea |
| 4.08.09 | Eurasian Home Analytical Resource | Maria Yulikova, F10 Reset at the Expense of Rule of Law and Human Rights? |
| 4.07.09 | Risk Management Magazine | Vincent H. O'Neil, F96 Rebuilding Financial Risk Management |
| 4.05.09 | The Hartford Courant | Timothy A. Ridout, F10 Window Open On Thawing Relations With Cuba |
| 4.02.09 | The Huffington Post | Pedro C. Moreno, F87 Men and Boys in Gender Equality: a Report from Rio |
| 3.30.09 | Le Monde | Saeed M. Feyz, F78 The Importance of Moral Considerations and Ethical Behavior in Economic Recovery |
| 3.30.09 | Newsweek | Daniel Drezner One More Chance |
| 3.24.09 | The National Interest | Mort Abramowitz and Natalie Parke, F08 Bashing Bashir |
| 3.28.09 | The New York Times | Scott Borgerson, F03, and Caitlyn Antrim An Arctic Circle of Friends |
| 3.23.09 | Opinion | Lawrence E. Harrison Jews, Confucians, and Protestants: Cultural Capital, and the End of Multiculturalism |
| 3.18.09 | The New Straits Times Online | W. Scott Thompson Top Intelligence Pick Hits 'Israel Lobby' |
| 3.09.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Joshua Gross, F10 The Right Way to Talk to Iran |
| 3.09.09 | The Columbia Spectator | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) The Hypocrisy of Columbia’s Israeli Divestment Campaign |
| 3.09.09 | U.S. News & World Report | William C. Martel Ban on Photographing Military Coffins Protected Grieving Families from Media |
| 3.03.09 | The Jamestown Foundation | Benedetta Berti, F10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Assessing the Role of Hezbollah in the Gaza War and Its Regional Impact |
| 3.01.09 | Foreign Policy | Daniel Drezner The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis |
| 2.13.09 | The Wall Street Journal (Asia) | Sung-Yoon Lee Pyongyang Home Truths |
| 2.12.09 | The Financial Times | Pankaj Ghemawat and Thomas M. Hout China and India Take on the Multinationals |
| 2.03.09 | Le Monde Diplomatique | Ibrahim Warde Epitaph to George Bush |
| 2.01.09 | Le Monde Diplomatique | Laurent Jacque Anniversaire en demi-teinte pour l’euro |
| 1.30.09 | The National Interest | Mort Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth Another Trilateral Commission |
| 1.29.09 | World Security Network | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Is the Window of Opportunity to Formulate a National Defense Strategy for Lebanon Closing? |
| 1.29.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Natalie Parke, F08 In Uganda, Justice, or Just a Publicity Stunt? |
| 1.28.09 | US News & World Report | Antonia Chayes and Dipali Mukhopadhyay, F09 Remembering Clausewitz: Restoring the Civil-Military Relationship |
| 1.26.09 | Foreign Policy In Focus | Joshua Gross, F10 Why Obama Should Meet With Morales |
| 1.26.09 | The Christian Science Monitor | Marc Sommers and Kathryn Birch Combat the Terror of Rape in Congo |
| 1.14.09 | The New Straits Times Online | W. Scott Thompson The Cracks Widen in Thailand’s Wall |
| 1.13.09 | On Line Opinion | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Iran aims to get Shanghaied |
| 1.01.09 | Opinion | Hind Aboud Kabawat, GMAP03 What the Middle East Needs is the "Audacity of Hope" |
| 1.01.09 | Opinion | Eileen F. Babbitt New Approach Needed For Israeli-Palestinian Peace |
| 12.30.08 | The Huffington Post | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) Lessons Learned from the 2006 War Being Implemented in Gaza |
| 12.27.08 | The Huffington Post | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) Needing Coercive Diplomacy to Deal with Iran |
| 12.22.08 | The National Interest | Daniel Drezner A Realist Peace? |
| 12.20.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee Patience is North Korea's Virtue |
| 12.11.08 | The Los Angeles Times | W. Scott Thompson Bhumibol, Thailand's Remarkable King |
| 12.02.08 | The Jerusalem Post | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) The Lesser of Two Evils |
| 12.01.08 | National Geographic Magazine | Dan Dimancescu, F66 Test of Fire: A Nation and an Officer Turn of Age in the Romanian Trenches of WW-I |
| 11.27.08 | The Jerusalem Post | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Homegrown Terror or International Jihad? |
| 11.24.08 | The EU Observer | Alexandros Yannis EU and US Should Co-operate With Russia |
| 11.24.08 | The Ohio Jewish Chronicle | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) Foreign Policy Decisions - Iran, Israel, Syria and Hezbollah– Here Comes More Conflict |
| 11.19.08 | Culture 11 | Daniel Drezner The World Obama Faces: Take Cover |
| 11.13.08 | On Line Opinion | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Ahmadinejad and the Shifting Political Environment in Iran |
| 11.08.08 | The Philippine Daily Inquirer | W. Scott Thompson America’s Gain, Philippines’ Loss? |
| 11.06.08 | Eurasian Home | Maria Yulikova, F'10 Will US-Russia Relations Be Restored? |
| 10.28.08 | USA Today | By William C. Martel Fanatics Don't Compromise |
| 10.21.08 | The National Interest | By Daniel W. Drezner Nouveau Riche |
| 10.20.08 | The Middle East Times | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Terror in Lebanon Threatens National, Regional Security |
| 10.13.08 | The Wall Street Journal | Vali Nasr Obama is Right About Talking to Iran |
| 10.10.08 | The Christian Science Monitor | Joshua Gross, F'09 Stabilizing Bolivia Requires Goodwill and Cooperation |
| 10.06.08 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Michael W. Klein Learning from Crises |
| 9.29.08 | Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University | Joshua Goldstein, F'9, and Juliana Rotich Digitally Networked Technology in Kenya's 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis |
| 9.24.08 | Parliamentary Brief | David Wheeler and Sahba Sobhani, GMAP'09 Public Sector-Private Sector Policy Dialogue Can Benefit Poor |
| 9.14.08 | The New York Times | David S. Abraham, F'03 One if by Land, Billions if by Sea |
| 9.01.08 | The Jerusalem Post | Benedetta Berti, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Can Ahmadinejad Lose the Election? |
| 8.13.08 | The BBC News | Magdalena Frichova, GMAP'09 Human Cost of Georgian Conflict |
| 8.13.08 | The San Francisco Chronicle | Mark David Iden, F'80 On Conflict in Georgia, Follow the Pipeline |
| 8.10.08 | International Herald Tribune | Ko Unoki, GMAP'02 India's Downtrodden |
| 8.09.08 | The Boston Globe | Joshua Gleis, F05 (Ph.D. Candidate) Chinese, Russian Stall Tactics on Iran |
| 8.08.08 | Policy Review | Michael J. Glennon A Conveniently Unlawful War |
| 8.06.08 | The Christian Science Monitor | Lawrence E. Harrison Could Obama's Rise Signal the End of Black Victimology? |
| 8.01.08 | International Peacekeeping | Susanna P. Campbell, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate), and Anja T. Kaspersen The UN’s Reforms: Confronting Integration Barriers |
| 8.01.08 | International Peacekeeping | Susanna P. Campbell, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) (Dis)integration, Incoherence and Complexity in UN Post-conflict Interventions |
| 8.01.08 | The Journal of Geopolitics | Behlul Ozkan, F'10 (Ph.D. Candidate) Who Gains from the “No War No Peace” Situation? A Critical Analysis of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict |
| 7.30.08 | The Cape Cod Times | Bruce Everett Big Oil Tax Would Hurt Middle Class |
| 7.25.08 | The Wall Street Journal | Roderick Brazier, GMAP'05 Cambodia at the Ballot Box |
| 7.16.08 | Human Events | Joshua Gleis, F05, Ph.D. Candidate What is 'Israel-Palestine'? |
| 7.01.08 | Foreign Affairs | C. Fred Bergsten, F62 A Partnership of Equals |
| 6.27.08 | The Financial Times | Robert Hormats, F66 A New World Faces the Next Leader |
| 6.19.08 | The Washington Post | Vali Nasr Iran on Its Heels |
| 6.05.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee A New Light on the Korean War |
| 6.02.08 | Los Angeles Times | Sherif Mansour, GMAP08 Egypt's Facebook Showdown |
| 6.01.08 | World Development | Roberto Porzecanski, F'09 (PhD Candidate) The Dynamism of Mexican Exports: Lost in (Chinese) Translation? |
| 5.20.08 | The Wall Street Journal | C. Fred Bergsten, F62 The Democrats' Dangerous Trade Games |
| 5.16.08 | Harvard International Review | Erik Iverson, F09 Disconnecting the Battle of Ideas From the Battle of Arms |
| 5.15.08 | Le Monde Diplomatique | Ibrahim Warde Sovereign Wealth Funds to the Rescue - Are They Saviors, Predators or Dupes? |
| 5.15.08 | Le Monde Diplomatique | Ibrahim Warde It’s All in the Bonus |
| 5.12.08 | Newsweek International | Morton Abramowitz and Stephen Bosworth Reaching Out to Pyongyang |
| 5.04.08 | The Financial Times | Wolfgang Ischinger, F73 Europe has Much to Offer the White House |
| 4.30.08 | The Christian Science Monitor | Russell D. Howard and Erik Iverson, F09 Fight Al Qaeda's Plan, Not its Ideas |
| 4.19.08 | The Washington Times | Samuel R. Berger and Stephen Bosworth Forging Closer Washington-Seoul Ties |
| 4.18.08 | The Far Eastern Economic Review | Jeremy Sarkin The 'Responsibility to Protect' |
| 4.15.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee Bush, Lee and That North Korea Problem |
| 4.13.08 | The Hartford Courant | Rockford Weitz, F03, Scott Borgerson, F03, and John Curtis Perry The Shipping Alternative |
| 4.8.08 | The Baltimore Sun | Rockford Weitz, F03, Scott Borgerson, F03, and John Curtis Perry Put Ship in Shipping |
| 4.5.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee Pyongyang Shoots Itself in the Foot |
| 4.1.08 | Foreign Affairs | Scott Borgerson, F03 Arctic Meltdown |
| 3.31.08 | The Detroit Free Press | James Palmer, F09 U.S. Blunders by Recognizing Kosovo Independence |
| 3.29.08 | The New York Times | Edward Schumacher-Matos, F79 Killing a Trade Pact |
| 3.21.08 | The Providence Journal | Ben Mazzotta, F05, Ph.D. Candidate Bring Short Sea Shipping to Providence |
| 3.21.08 | Newsweek | Daniel Drezner ‘A Stupid Conversation’ |
| 3.20.08 | The National Interest | Daniel Drezner The Realists vs. the Neocons |
| 3.14.08 | The Providence Journal | Josh Gleis, F05, Ph.D. Candidate Hezbollah is Angry: A Time for Vigilance |
| 3.13.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee Serenading North Korea |
| 3.10.08 | The Providence Journal | Scott Borgerson, F03, and David Abraham, F03 Homeland Security is Like a Poorly Equipped Junior Varsity Squad |
| 3.07.08 | The Seattle Times | Keith Everett Democrats Must Demonstrate Decisiveness and Determination |
| 3.07.08 | The Asia Times | Sung-Yoon Lee A Blow to the Korean Soul |
| 2.26.08 | The Christian Science Monitor | Lawrence E. Harrison The End of Multiculturalism |
| 2.22.08 | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Daniel Drezner Methodological Confusion |
| 2.20.08 | Newsweek | Daniel Drezner The Eagle Still Soars |
| 2.18.08 | Marketplace Public Radio | Daniel Drezner We Can No Longer Afford the Penny |
| 2.02.08 | Perspectives on Terrorism | Stacy Reiter Neal Business as Usual? Leveraging the Private Sector to Combat Terrorism |
| 2.02.08 | The Far Eastern Economic Review | Jeremy Sarkin Asia’s Need for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation |
| 2.01.08 | Latin American Research Review | Roberto Porzecanski, F'09 (PhD Candidate) China Matters: China’s Economic Impact in Latin America |
1.18.08 | Tehelka | Amlan Saha Failing Our Women |
| January 2008 | CTC Sentinel | Hassan Abbas A Profile of Tehrik-i-Taliban [pdf] |
| 1.1.08 | The Guardian | Hassan Abbas Benazir's sacrifice may yet save Pakistan |
| January/February 2008 | Foreign Affairs | Vali Nasr The Costs of Containing Iran |