News
How America Can Cope with the Rise of Asia
Asia's most famous diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani, has been going around the world outlining just why the United States needs to pay attention to Asia.
Posted: 2/22/2008
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala Moderates: "The Next American Century: Can the U.S. Thrive in a New Era of Big Powers?"
KPCC and LA Channel 36, February 3, 2008
Posted: 2/11/2008
Blackwater and Democracy
Americans are not less sensitive to the deaths of private soldiers in wars than they are to those of regular U.S. troops, UC-Irvine political scientist Deborah Avant and a colleague discovered. But the use of security contractors in combat zones has other implications for a democracy, she tells a UCLA audience. Listen to a podcast of her talk.
Posted: 2/7/2008
Burkle Fellow Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon: On An Icelandic Dinner with Bobby Fisher
The Nation, January 27, 2008
Posted: 1/27/2008
Why US Spy Agencies Failed to Adapt
Former CIA agent Larry Johnson interviews Amy Zegart, an associate professor in the UCLA School of Public Affairs and a Burkle Center senior fellow, on her recent book "Spying Blind: The CIA, The FBI, and the Origins of 9/11." Watch the video, produced by UCLA Spotlight.
Posted: 1/14/2008
Muppet Figurehead to Speak on World Issues
The Daily Bruin, November 29, 2007
Posted: 11/29/2007
Gen. Wesley Clark on KPCC's Air Talk with Larry Mantle
KPCC Radio, November 21, 2007
Posted: 11/21/2007
Former Thai Foreign Minister Back at UCLA, with Stories to Tell
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thailand's UCLA-educated former 39th foreign minister, shares his experiences with students in a lecture delivered as part of International Education Week. Suphamongkhon is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center and a UC Regents' Professor.
Posted: 11/20/2007
Why Invasion is the Wrong Answer to Turkey's Problems by Gen. Clark
Financial Times, Nov. 15, 2007
Posted: 11/16/2007
The Potency of Persuasion by Gen. Clark
Fortune Magazine, November 8, 2007
Posted: 11/12/2007
Ambush in War Zone D, Gen. Clark Writes About His Experiences in Vietnam
Washington Monthly, Nov. 2007
Posted: 10/31/2007
Former UN Figure Speaks at UCLA
The Daily Bruin, Oct. 31, 2007
Posted: 10/31/2007
6 Who've Cared About Darfur's Victims
Burkle Center Website, Oct. 30, 2007
Posted: 10/30/2007
Burkle Center Welcomes UC Regents' Professor Kantathi Suphamongkhon
Burkle Center Website, Oct. 11, 2007
Posted: 10/15/2007
Troop Surge in Iraq Must End, Analyst Says
UCLA Today, Oct. 10, 2007
Posted: 10/10/2007
Gen. Clark Speaks on Iraq, Book
The Daily Bruin, October 8, 2007
Posted: 10/8/2007
Get Out of Iraq Within a Year, Urges Former US Defense Official
Larry Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, wants to keep a regional military presence and to keep intervening in Iraq, but he thinks that continuing the occupation does more harm than good. He and Phillip Carter, a UCLA alum and Iraq war veteran, take questions on the war and Gen. Petraeus's strategy.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Petraeus' Optimistic Take on Iraq War Not a Consensus
The Daily Bruin, September 27, 2007
Posted: 9/27/2007
The CIA's License to Fail: Professor Amy Zegart
LA Times, September 23, 2007
Posted: 9/23/2007
US Intelligence Shortcomings Still Exist, Professor Amy Zegart.
UCLA Magazine,
September 11, 2007
Posted: 9/21/2007
