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Cyprus Mail
November 7, 2017
Selig Harrison, former Director of the Asia Program and Chairman of the Task Force on U.S. Korea Policy at the Center for International Policy, former Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said it was enormously unlikely that the North Koreans were processing uranium forÃâà...
NPR
November 23, 2010
But Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, believes that the attack on Yeonpyeong is "a classic ploy" by North Korea's military to undermine the thawing relations. Harrison, author of the book Korean Endgame: A Strategy For Reunification and U.S. Disengagement,Ãâà...
International Herald Tribune
August 26, 2010
While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. The entireÃâà...
Atlantic Online (blog)
March 9, 2010
The Taliban—the twisted result of Pashtun nationalism, Islamic fervor, drug money, corrupt warlords, and, now, hatred of the American occupation—may be, in the view of Selig Harrison, the director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, merely the vehicle for a grand transition that a foreign military run byÃâà...
NewsHour
August 18, 2009
Selig Harrison, director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy, said on the Aug. 4 NewsHour that Kim met with former President Clinton in Seoul in May and encouraged him to go to North Korea, where he ended up securing the release of two U.S. journalists. News of Kim's death broughtÃâà...
New York Times
August 17, 2009
Washington. AS the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country's largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42 percent of the populationÃâà...
NPR
March 15, 2009
"They fought in those hill for years and they just couldn't control them," says Selig Harrison, the director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy in Washington. "You go up in there, and you see these hills and the ravines and the valleys, and there is really no place I'm aware of on the face ofÃâà...
CNN
January 17, 2009
The director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, who just returned from a five-day visit to Pyongyang, said senior North Korean officials told him the warheads will not be open for inspection. If it is true, the news portends a gloomy outlook for the future of the six-party talks that began inÃâà...
