The EU and China are finishing a summit meeting in The Hague. Most of the attention has focused on China’s efforts to lift a post-Tiananmen arms embargo. Xinhua has a very different emphasis, however, noting that the the summit has produced an EU-China Joint Declaration on Non-Proliferation and Arms Control. Neither the European Union nor …
Iran: The Verification Trap
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The Bush administration may be laying the ground work to sabotage any deal that the EU-3 conclude with Iran regarding the suspension of Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. The grounds? The deal is unverifiable. Obviously, we would all like to see as strong a deal as possible and it’s hard to be against verification. But what …
About Me
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Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a staff member at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from the University of Maryland and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College …
The Problem with Don Rumsfeld
by | 2004-12-07 | 1 Comment
There’s just one? Yeah, but it’s a doozy. Holding court on the O’Reilly Factor, Captain Loofah turned surprisingly tough, asking if anyone warned Rumsfeld that Iraq might turn out to be a gigantic shit sandwich. Rumsfeld replied: We, you can find intelligence that says almost anything. Is Don Rumsfeld an arrogant jerk? Ask Richard Avedon’s …
