A couple of weeks after I mentioned a study by Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)—a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and my employer the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland—other blogs are finally starting to pick it up. You can …
Paris Negotiations 1: Boucher Confuses Everyone Over Iran
by | 2004-10-21 | No Comments
Apparently we do have an Iran policy: be very, very vague. Check out these headlines: U.S. Signals Opposition to Light-Water Reactor Offer to Iran; Tehran Expected to Offer Deal to Europeans (Global Security Newswire, October 21, 2004) US presses Iran to respond to European nuclear proposal (Agence France Presse, October 21, 2004) Yup, from the …
Impasse at the Conference on Disarmament
by | 2004-10-21 | No Comments
My talk at the UN went well today. I heard a couple of especially blunt comments by officials from national delegations to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Among the things I heard: The Conference remains at an “impasse” created by the United States. The United States has a responsibility to issue “at least a …
Paul Nitze, 1907-2004
by | 2004-10-20 | No Comments
The New York Times and Washington Post have excellent obituaries that capture Nitze’s good and bad qualities. Decorum inhibits candor, however. Nitze’s role in slandering Paul Warnke, during Warnke’s confirmation hearing for Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is an unseemly moment that defined Nitze for a great many of his colleagues. To …
