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BY EDWARD P. JOSEPH B’81, ’81 (View PDF) “Little did we imagine this would be her last encounter with international officials.” Edward P. Joseph, a 1981 SAIS graduate, Foreign Policy Institute visiting scholar, SAIS professorial lecturer and prominent foreign policy expert, interviewed Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto…

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By Edward P. Joseph And Michael E. O’Hanlon (View PDF) As President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepare for this week’s crucial meetings with Turkey’s leaders about the attacks by Kurdish PKK rebels, they should look beyond crisis management to deal with the…

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WASHINGTON, DC Thursday, July 5, 2007 Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institute, & Edward Joseph, School of Advanced Int’l Studies, discuss their paper on Iraq. The two scholars suggest that if the military surge and reconciliation efforts fail, a soft partition of Iraq may be the only…

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By Edward P. Joseph Summer/Fall 2007 View article as PDF Current ownership dogma has had pernicious consequences for fledgling democracies from Bosnia to Iraq to East Timor. Ownership advocates insist that democracy will only take root when local stakeholders (not outside actors) make and implement…

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By Edward P. Joseph (View as PDF) Published: June 28, 2007 WASHINGTON: Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin of Russia are headed for a collision at their summit meeting that begins Sunday in Kennebunkport, Maine. The issue isn’t Iran, Iraq or a new missile…

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By Edward P. Joseph and Michael O’Hanlon View the PDF EXCERPT – The time may be approaching when the only hope for a more stable Iraq is a soft partition of the country. Soft partition would involve the Iraqis, with the assistance of the international…

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By DAVID BROOKS January 28, 2007 During the summer of 1995, Edward Joseph was serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in Bosnia. He was asked to help Muslim women and children flee from an area near Srebrenica, where 7,000 Muslims had already been slaughtered by Serb forces….

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By MICHAEL E. O’HANLON & EDWARD P. JOSEPH Published January/February 2007 Issue Read Online United States Department of Least Bad Iraq Options  Washington, DC 20499  ACTION MEMORANDUM TO: POTUS FROM: Michael E. O’Hanlon and Edward P. Joseph DATE: January 1, 2007 RE: The Bosnia Option…

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How the U.N. Failed Srebrenica THE WASHINGTON POST By Edward P. Joseph (View as PDF) In the video, the Serbs take their time, cracking jokes and taunting the Muslim men they’ve trucked to a field outside a small hamlet in Eastern Bosnia. Then the joking…

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By Edward P. Joseph (View as PDF) / (Read Online) Forgotten, Not Fixed Since the departure on June 28, 2001, of the Balkans’ most iconic henchman, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, to a courtroom in The Hague, the region has mostly sunk into obscurity. The attacks of…

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