Managing Across Boundaries Deputy Director Johan Bergenäs and Research Assistant Esha Mufti were published in World Politics Review, writing about the increasingly close links between organized crime groups, trafficking networks, and terrorist organizations, and the integrated

Yuki Tatsumi, Senior Associate and the director of the Japan project, was recently featured on the news network channel China Central Television (CCTV), and discussed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Washington DC to meet with President Barack Obama.

During her interview, Ms.

Mona Yacoubian contributed to a Foreign Policy.com roundtable on arming the opposition in Syria.
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On February 21, Dawn newspaper published an Op-Ed by Michael Krepon and Julia Thompson on Pakistani civilian deaths from internal violence.

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Matthew Leatherman was quoted on NPR's Morning Edition regarding defense cuts.

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Stimson Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow Barry Blechman was quoted in the Bloomberg News article, "Pentagon Budget Stuck in Last Century as Warfare Changes," published February 19.

He noted that the Defense Department still has "too many programs that are not appropriate and do

Alan D. Romberg, distinguished fellow and director of Stimson's East Asia program, was recently interviewed by the Singapore-based news network Channel NewsAsia on the subject of Japan's territorial dispute with China and Russia. 

During the interview, Mr. Romberg discussed the

David Michel has published a short piece on water security and transboundary water management in the Winter 2013 issue of the journal Issues in Science and Technology. It can be accessed online by clicking here, and then scrolling down to the section entitled "Managing Water." 

Geneive Abdo was quoted in LA Times:

In universities, “Shiites and Sunnis are sitting in different areas in class. Some restaurants are now segregated.… The kind of sectarian language used on Twitter and in chat groups is shocking,” said Geneive Abdo, a fellow in the Stimson Center

Russell Rumbaugh was featured on Bloomberg Radio on discussion of Defense Department budget cuts.

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Stimson Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow Barry Blechman appeared on the February 10 episode of World Affairs TODAY, a program of the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC.

The episode featured his December 2012 appearance at the World Affairs Council event: "50 Years of Nuclear

Geneive was interviewed by CBC about the recent power struggle between the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the speaker of the parliament, Ali Larijani. Click here to listen. 

Russell Rumbaugh, director of the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program, has an Op-Ed in The New York times. In the Op-Ed, "A Tax to Pay for War",  Mr. Rumbaugh argues that Congress should institute a surcharge for any military action requiring additional funding above

Yuki Tatsumi's article, "Japan under DPJ Rule," was featured in the January 31st issue of the Harvard International review.

"The ascendance of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) on August 2009 was praised as the first genuine power transition in Japan's postwar history. However,

Stimson co-founder and Distinguished Fellow Barry Blechman presented key findings from "A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era" to a panel of experts at the Council of Foreign Relations on Friday, February 8, in New York City. The panel, chaired by Gordon Adams, was webcast to CFR

On Thursday, February 7th, David Michel participated in a Wilson Center panel discussion titled "Strengthening Responses to Climate Variability in South Asia," jointly hosted by the center's Asia Program and Global Sustainability and Resilience Program. Michel was joined on the panel

Alan D. Romberg, distinguished fellow and director of Stimson's East Asia program, was recently featured on the Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV network's "Peter Qiu's Talk" show on the subject of North Korea's plans to conduct a third nuclear test.   

During the interview, Mr. Romberg

On January 18, 2013, Managing Across Boundaries (MAB) and the Permanent Missions of Japan, Turkey, and Poland to the United Nations hosted the Turtle Bay Security Roundtable: Proliferation Challenges in a Flat World". The day-long roundtable was designed to supply UN Member States,

Geneive Abdo was quoted in Bloomberg:

"He [Qalibaf] is a rational player," said Geneive Abdo, a research fellow at the Washington-based Stimson Center, which was set up in 1989 to promote peace. "The U.S. is more comfortable dealing with technocrats and economists who are much less

Gordon Adams, Distinguished Fellow with the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program, was featured in a recent piece for PBS's NewsHour. The segment "Defense Department Budget Will Be Major Questioning Point for Nominee Hagel" analyzed the upcoming budget challenges facing