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Obama Committed to Working with International Institutions, US Official Says
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer looks at U.S. cooperation on issues from global warming to peacekeeping and human rights.
Posted: 11/3/2009
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) in <i>Foreign Affairs</i> on the Need for Cybersecurity
Burkle Center Senior Fellow and former Supreme Commander of NATO, General Wesley K. Clark, and Peter L. Levin, former CEO of the cybersecurity company DAFCA, report on the need to secure U.S. computer networks, software, and hardware from cyberterrorism.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Burkle Center Welcomes Fall 2009 Interns: Annie Augustine, Tomasz Dziadkowiec, Deborah Magsaysay, Sarah Mallory, Anubha Prakash, Amy Ta & Jasmin Yu
New to our Center are 7 accomplished undergraduate and graduate students to work as this year's Fall/Winter Quarter interns.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Former Pakistani PM Urges Open Talks on Afghanistan
Shaukat Aziz, who served Pakistan for eight years as finance minister and prime minister, argues in a talk at UCLA that global and regional powers will need to meet with all Afghan factions, the Taliban included, and offer a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan in order to put the country on the right track.
Posted: 10/2/2009
Burkle Center Podcasts Ranked in the Top Ten of International Relations Podcasts Worldwide
The Center for Security Studies in Zurich, Switzerland, ranks Burkle Center podcasts as among the best of all international relations podcasts.
Posted: 9/22/2009
<i>Huffington Post</i> Op-Ed by Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala: "Power in the Post American World"
In this op-ed published by The Huffington Post, Kal Raustiala discusses the changing look of power in the world.
Posted: 9/12/2009
Burkle Fellow Amy Zegart on KCRW: Prisoner Abuse and National Security
Amy Zegart discusses with other panelists on KCRW's "To the Point" about prisoner abuse, national security interests and President Obama's new Interagency Interrogation Group led by the FBI.
Posted: 8/25/2009
NY Daily News Op-Ed by Senior Fellow Gen. Clark: Obama must learn from Vietnam
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark gives President Obama advice for Afghanistan.
Posted: 8/17/2009
Burkle Faculty Fellow Amy Zegart quoted in <i>Times Magazine</i>: "Terror Interrogations: Can the CIA and FBI Work Together?"
Time's reporter Bobby Ghosh covers Terror Interrogations and whether or not the CIA and FBI can work together.
Posted: 7/28/2009
Burkle Faculty Fellow Amy Zegart quoted in the Christian Science Monitor on where 9/11 comission reforms stand
Five years after the commission released its report, one key reform for US security streamlining congressional oversight hasnt happened.
Posted: 7/23/2009
Burkle Senior Fellow Gen. Clark to be Spokeman for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Burkle Center Senior Fellow General Wesley K. Clark (ret.) will be featured on billboards in 150 cities around the country for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America "BE GREAT" advocacy campaign.
Posted: 7/21/2009
The Burkle Center Celebrates Student Achievement in 2008-09
In May 2009 the Burkle Center held a luncheon at the Faculty Center to celebrate the four Belkin Scholarship Recipients and twelve intern program graduates.
Posted: 6/18/2009
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) appointed to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships
President Obama appoints 28-member commission to recommend candidates for the White House Fellowship, Americas most prestigious program for leadership and public service.
Posted: 6/17/2009
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala Publishes New Book: Does the Constitution Follow the Flag?
Kal Raustiala examines territoriality in American law and foreign policy. In the course of his timely and engaging narrative he changes the reader's perceptions of American territory, American law, and the evolving nature of American power.
Posted: 6/8/2009
Burkle Faculty Fellow Amy Zegart quoted in the NY Times on turf battles among spy chiefs
NYT's reporter Mark Mazzetti covers a recent dispute between Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, and Leon E. Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted: 6/8/2009
How Obama Should Address Islamists and Jihadists
Bestselling author, columnist, and UC Riverside faculty member Reza Aslan has advice for the Obama administration on defeating transnational Muslim utopian radicals, or jihadists. Start, he says, by getting used to the idea of Islamists in politics.
Posted: 6/5/2009
Bagram: Is it Obama's New Guantanamo?
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in a recent MSNBC article by Tom Curry on a ruling by Judge Bates which forces President Obama to confront the issue of the Afghan prison.
Posted: 6/3/2009
Testing Torture
Reporter Carey Shenkman's 3-part segment on torture featuring former U.S. Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander and former U.S. Army interrogator Eric Maddox. Alexander and Maddox came to UCLA to speak at the Burkle Center on April 24, 2009.
Posted: 5/26/2009
The New Guantanamo
In this op-ed recently published by The Huffington Post, he discusses the future of Guantanamo and the new Guantanamo - Bagram Air Base.
Posted: 5/26/2009
Congress' Poor Oversight of Intelligence Is Longstanding Problem
This op-ed, addressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge that the CIA and the Bush Administration misled Congress in its briefings about interrogations of terrorist suspects, was published recently by NationalJournal.com.
Posted: 5/22/2009
