The Future of US-South Korean Security Relations
FPIF, October 24, 2004
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Bring Our Troops Home–from Korea
FPIF, June 21, 2004
It’s Our Party (and We’ll Cheer If We Want To)
FPIF, April 30, 2004
Between Kim Jong Il and a Hard Place
FPIF, February 27, 2004
U.S. Grand Strategy in Asia
ZNet, February 16, 2004
One China, Two Headaches
Backing both the favorite and the underdog in a boxing match might win points for evenhandedness, but it would leave sports fans scratching their heads. In the battle of affections between China and Taiwan, though, the Bush administration has done just that. Both countries have been led to believe that they are enjoying the best… Continue reading One China, Two Headaches
The Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki, World Policy Journal
World Policy Journal, Fall 2004
Steeped in Tradition
Vegetarian Times, April 2004
Burmese If You Please
Vegetarian Times, February 2004
Second Act
American Prospect, February 14, 2004 The Bush administration has been at times dangerously ambiguous in its policy toward North Korea. With a second round of six-party talks likely for early 2004 and North Korea’s nuclear program chugging along, the upcoming debate on Capitol Hill over a new bill, the North Korea Freedom Act, may well… Continue reading Second Act
2003 Archives
“Regime Change in North Korea?” ZNet, December 25, 2003 Terrorist Potatoes, TomPaine, December 2003 “North Korea: a Different Kind of Regime Change,” Global Beat Syndicate, December 2, 2003 “Two Cheers for Realpolitik,” TomPaine.com, November 24, 2003 “Fields of Battle,” TomPaine.com, October 27, 2003 “The Peculiar Pragmatism of Pyongyang,” The Progressive, October 2003 “Wish List,” The American Prospect On-Line, October… Continue reading 2003 Archives
2003 Events
North Korea/South Korea: U.S. Politics and the Korean Peninsula Monday, November 3, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. Borders 32nd and 2nd Avenue New York City Korea Peace Day Wednesday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m. AFSC, 1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA Korea Peace Day Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 p.m. Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA North Korea/South Korea:… Continue reading 2003 Events
The Price of Power
Drunkards know no limits. They drink until they drop. Those drunk on power, like the current Bush administration, delude themselves into believing they do not have to observe any limits. Drunkards beware: the transition from swaggering to staggering can be unexpectedly swift. As destruction segues into reconstruction in Iraq, the Bush administration is claiming victory… Continue reading The Price of Power
Seeds of Conflict
The Bush administration is behaving like an alpha male in its conflicts with Europe, bellowing and beating its chest to scare the competition. And in letting testosterone determine policy, Washington is out to spread its seed as widely as possible. By pushing genetically modified (GM) seed and produce, the United States wants to remake the… Continue reading Seeds of Conflict
Kim Il Sung and Korea’s Struggle
Review of Kim Il Sung and Korea’s Struggle by Won Tai Sohn John Feffer A casual observer of the United States in the 1950s might conclude that Dwight D. Eisenhower was a genial war hero who, as the 34th president, presided over a decade of unprecedented prosperity. Even my father, a World War II… Continue reading Kim Il Sung and Korea’s Struggle
The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (Review)
Review of Charles Armstrong, The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2003) Journalists almost ritualistically describe North Korea as the world’s last Stalinist hold out. “Stalinist,” like “communist” or “totalitarian,” is used more for its damning than its descriptive power. Indeed, in the same breath, journalists acknowledge that North Korea remains a profound… Continue reading The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950 (Review)
Wish List
Conflict-resolution professionals often say that to break a deadlock requires parties to shift from “positions” to “interests.” For the past year, the United States and North Korea have repeated their positions ad nauseum. The United States wants North Korea to give up its nuclear program; North Korea wants a guarantee that the United States won’t… Continue reading Wish List
North Korea: A Different Kind of Regime Change
For the last year, the Bush administration has spoken with a forked tongue on North Korean policy. The pragmatists in the Bush administration have wanted to negotiate a solution to the current nuclear stand-off. The hardliners have been eager for Korean War II. Now, according to Beltway gossip in Washington, the pragmatists have bested… Continue reading North Korea: A Different Kind of Regime Change
Terrorist Potatoes
TomPaine, December 2003
North Korea and the Fire Next Time
TomPaine, September 3, 2003
Two Cheers for RealPolitik
TomPaine, November 24, 2003
Regime Change in North Korea?
A Different Kind of Regime Change For the last year, the Bush administration has spoken with a forked tongue on North Korean policy. The pragmatists in the Bush administration have wanted to negotiate a solution to the current nuclear stand-off. The hardliners have been eager for Korean War II. Now, according to Beltway… Continue reading Regime Change in North Korea?
Fields of Battle
It’s the Rural Economy, Stupid On the strength of two wars and a barrage of patriotic propaganda, George Bush once looked invulnerable on foreign policy issues. Today, as stability eludes Iraq and Afghanistan and crisis continues to dog the Korean peninsula, the world seems less willing to go along with the president’s reelection plans. … Continue reading Fields of Battle
Reining U.S. In
If the laws of physics apply as well to geopolitics, the U.S. empire will continue to march forward until met with an equal but opposite force. The Bush administration sees no such hindrances on the horizon. No matter that the Chinese outnumber us five to one, the European Union’s economy nearly rivals ours, Russia still… Continue reading Reining U.S. In
From Gulf War II to Korean War II
Albany Times-Union, April 3, 2003
An Uneasy Anniversary
Greensboro News and Record, July 27, 2003
The Peculiar Pragmatism of Pyongyang
The Progressive, October 2003
Korean Vegetarian Cooking
Vegetarian Times, August 2003
Seoul Food
Washingtonian, April 2003
Highlighted Articles
- What’s Up with the Herd? FPIF
- Death and the Economy: A Dialogue, FPIF
- COVID-19 and the Global Economy, Inference
- Revisiting the Goldilocks Apocalypse, TomDispatch
- A Global Green New Deal Could Defeat the Far Right—And Save the Planet, Newsweek
- The Widening Rift Between the US and China, The Nation
- Between Rocks and a Hard Place, Foreign Policy
- Deserts vs. Development in China, Global Post
- Infantilizing North Korea, Hankyoreh
- Jeju Island: Paradise with a Dark Side, Washington Post
- Waiting for the Curtain, Washingtonian
- My Backlogged Pages, New York Times
- Starting Where North Korea Is, 38North
- Will Facebook Remake the World? Harvard International Review
- Are We All North Koreans Now? TomDispatch
- Bringing a Living Wage to the Farm, Alternet
- Writers from the Other Asia, The Nation
- The Forgotten Lessons of Helsinki, World Policy Journal
- The Politics of Dog, American Prospect
- Containment Lite: U.S. Policy toward Russia and Its Neighbors, FPIF
- The Costs and Dangers of NATO Expansion, FPIF
- The Selling of the Russian President, 1993, Z Magazine
- The Age of Diminished Expectations (Review), Commonweal
- Poland’s Solidarity: Who Is in Charge? Z Magazine
- Corruptions of Empire (Review), Philadelphia City Paper