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John Tirman

Analysis + Opinion

April 2, 2004

One island, divisible

John TirmanWall Street Journal Europe

Even Kofi Annan's tireless efforts couldn't avert yet another failure in talks on reunifying Cyprus. The time ran out for the Turkish and Greek Cypriots, chaperoned by their motherlands' prime ministers, Wednesday night at midnight.

Analysis + Opinion

November 25, 2003

The changing face of Chinese diplomacy

Taylor Fravel and Evan S. MedeirosAsian Wall Street Journal

One of the most curious and underexamined aspects of the evolving North Korean nuclear crisis is the active and leading role played by China in the last nine months. Breaking with years of traditional Chinese passivity on global-security challenges, Beijing has helped to walk both Pyongyang and Washington back from the brink, surprising even China's critics.

Analysis + Opinion

September 16, 2003

Gunning for reform

Richard J. SamuelsTime Magazine

Koizumi's muscular approach to national security may be his defining legacy.  Everyone says Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is a "reformer." The press has variously labeled him a "maverick," a "lone wolf," "unusual" and "colorful." Certainly, Koizumi talks the talk of reform. Running for the premiership in 2001, he promised to pull up, root and branch, the causes of Japan's economic malaise.

Analysis + Opinion

September 5, 2003

UN credibility at stake

Balakrishnan Rajagopal The Hindu

To prevent a bad situation from getting worse, Kofi Annan must ask the U.S. to provide a clear time frame for a pullout as well as for the transfer of authority back to the Iraqis.

Analysis + Opinion

April 25, 2003

Europe cannot advance on two fronts

Barry R. PosenFinancial Times

Europe's political spat over the wisdom of the Iraq war has deepened scepticism about the future of the European Union's security and defense policy.

Analysis + Opinion

April 10, 2003

Flawed military model, made in the USA

Cindy WilliamsWall Street Journal Europe, p. A11

American troops entering Baghdad are not out of danger yet, and the occupation to come may take a continuing toll on the armies of the United States and Britain.

Analysis + Opinion

April 2, 2003

Transatlantic crisis will hurt arms industry

Cindy WilliamsEuropean Voice (Vo. 9, No. 13), p. 9.

Defence contractors in the United States and Europe are asking themselves what will happen to plans for transatlantic arms cooperation if relationships between the US and the continent’s great powers do not improve.

Analysis + Opinion

April 1, 2003

Paying the costs in Iraq

Cindy WilliamsKnight Ridder/Tribune News Service

Analysis + Opinion

February 6, 2003

The inspections flap: both sides are wrong

John TirmanAlterNet

This fractious debate, and the search for the weapons themselves, is a red herring--a diversion from the real reasons for war.

Analysis + Opinion

January 16, 2003

Hegemon down

John TirmanAlterNet

Bush's push for war in Iraq runs the risk of draining American global power suddenly and irrevocably.

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