Avatar photoNorth Korea: Intelligence Under Complexity

A North Korean poster from the UCLA Asia Institute. Sig Harrison has a review of intelligence assessments about North Korea’s uranium enrichment program in Foreign Affairs which concludes “those assessments were exaggerated and blurred the important distinction between weapons-grade uranium enrichment … and lower levels of enrichment …” Josh Marshall says that “precisely what Harrison …

Avatar photoEU-China Joint Declaration on Non-Proliferation and Arms Control

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 …

Avatar photoIran: The Verification Trap

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 …

Avatar photoAbout Me

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 …