Which Lessons of Vietnam Will Help the United States in Afghanistan? Obama should look to Kennedy, not LBJ, according to Larry Berman and Edward Miller. Link to article.
 Low Expectations for Quick Resumption of Six Party Talks. Josh Rogin summarizes the state of play given the recent visit of Ri Gun, North Korea's nuclear negotiator, to the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue. Link to article.
20th Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue in San Diego October 25—28. Participants included government officials from six countries—China, Japan, North Korea, Russia, South Korea, and the United States. Link to press kit.
Trade May Be the Way to Kim Jong Il's Heart: A new article in Foreign Policy by Susan Shirk and John Delury. Download article.
Economic Engagement with North Korea? A new Asia Society/IGCC joint task force report on economic engagement with North Korea was released October 22. Download report. The New Yorker recently spoke with John Delury, the project's director. More.
Work of IGCC Research Director Eli Berman Featured in The New Republic. More.
Remembering Herb York: The September issue of LLNL's Science and Technology Review features commentary by Harold Brown and a retrospective look at York's career. More.
Bring Back the Multilaterals: Steven Spiegel (UCLA) and Michael Yaffe (NESA) suggest a way to jumpstart the Obama administration's ME peace efforts. Link to article.
New and Notable:
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Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics
of Terrorism
(MIT Press, 2009)
Eli Berman is
IGCC Research Director for International Security Studies
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Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Proliferation
New IGCC occasional paper by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland looks at sanctions imposed under UNSCR 1874.
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