Publications

America’s Dalai Lama Dilemma

February 11, 2015 Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama ’s first public appearance with the Dalai Lama , the spiritual leader of Buddhists around the world, made headlines on Feb. 5. While the setting was an ostensibly religious occasion, the National Prayer Breakfast, China was quick to take offense. “This action by the U.S. to ‘drive a nail’ into the hearts of the Chinese people is harmful to the political trust between the two countries,” opined the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The Only Thing Scarier Than Iran’s Nukes

February 11, 2015 James S. Robbins The National Interest

Denying Iran nuclear-weapons capability is not only a means of limiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It is also part of a broader ideological struggle that Tehran is taking much more seriously than is the United States.

Don’t Expect a ‘Grexit’: Greece Can’t Escape Europe

February 10, 2015 E. Wayne Merry In the National Interest

Global financial markets currently obsess about the fate of a small Balkan country’s sovereign debt and its impact on the Eurozone. However, if the burden of Greek debt were to disappear overnight, the miracle would just reveal the underlying weakness of the Greek economy and its dependency on Europe for the foreseeable future.

South Asia Security Monitor: No. 357

February 9, 2015

Indian external affairs minister in Beijing;

Obama, Dalai Lama will meet in public for first time;

ISIS Khorasan, Pakistani Taliban form alliance;

At least 40 killed in Pakistan Shia mosque blast;

Modi appoints ambassador to U.S. as new top diplomat