George Perkovich
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How Cyber Ops Increase the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War
Five factors exacerbate a U.S.-Chinese security dilemma. → Read More
How Biden Can Reduce the Danger of Nuclear War
The world needs more sanity and justice. Here are four steps to help avoid destroying the world. → Read More
Three Ways to Break the Stalemate With North Korea
Nuclear negotiations with North Korea are at an impasse, but there are pragmatic ways the United States can seek to regain diplomatic momentum. → Read More
What is a Big Enough Win on the Korean Peninsula?
Although Senate Democrats and others are calling for complete dismantlement and removal of nuclear and chemical weapons from North Korea, the North Koreans have entirely different expectations. Political leaders in the United States should clarify what progress looks like, rather than attempting to negotiate a perfect deal. → Read More
George Perkovich
George Perkovich is the Olivier and Nomellini Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. → Read More
What Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Don't Know About Their Own Standoff
If the Cuban Missile Crisis is any indication, today’s leaders may be dangerously misinformed about the nuclear crisis. → Read More
What Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Don’t Know About Their Own Standoff
What Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Don’t Know About Their Own Standoff By George Perkovich May 26, 2018 When President Donald Trump canceled his June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he told him in a letter that the past few days of “tremendous anger and open hostility” had made it “inappropriate” for the two to meet and discuss denuclearization. “You talk about your nuclear… → Read More
The Other Terrifying Lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis
In the 55 years since unseen nuclear bullets were dodged in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States’ technical capabilities to gather intelligence have improved breathtakingly. Still, it is extremely difficult to know how foreign adversaries perceive their situation and calculate their moves. → Read More
Can Trump Cut a Deal With North Korea?
On the North Korea nuclear threat, global leaders have an obligation not to avoid reality. → Read More
Pakistan’s Ambassador on Peace and Stability in South Asia
On August 21, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his new strategy toward South Asia, highlighting the administration’s concerns regarding the threat of terrorism in the region. → Read More
If America Topples North Korea and Iran, What Happens Next?
The perception that the United States is seeking the removal of the North Korean and Iranian governments has negative effects that remain underappreciated in Washington → Read More
Book Launch: Understanding Cyber Conflict
Confrontation in cyber space is increasingly alarming. To come to grips with cyber power and its implications, people naturally turn to historical analogies. → Read More
Are India-Pakistan Peace Talks Worth a Damn?
The unyielding antagonism between India and Pakistan remains one of the greatest tragedies of Asian politics. → Read More
The Nuclear Ban Treaty: What Would Follow?
Opponents and skeptics fear that the dynamics surrounding a nuclear ban treaty will distract attention and effort from the nonproliferation regime that has helped prevent nuclear war since 1945, and that has prevented the proliferation of nuclear weapons to more states and to terrorist organizations. → Read More
North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Program
As North Korea develops an array of missiles that could deliver a nuclear weapon to the continental United States, that further complicates the tension over defending U.S. allies in the region. → Read More
Toward A Global Norm Against Manipulating the Integrity of Financial Data
It is vital to the stability of the international system to prohibit the corruption of data in the global financial system, and to strengthen a comprehensive norm to this effect. → Read More
Toward A Nuclear Firewall: Bridging the NPT’s Three Pillars
There is no clear, internationally accepted definition of what activities or technologies constitute a nuclear weapons program. This lack of definition encumbers nuclear energy cooperation and complicates peaceful resolution of proliferation disputes. → Read More
Don't Rip up the Iran Deal, Mr. President
To build, rather than deplete political capital and power, Trump should enforce the Iran deal rather than dismantle it. → Read More
Is a Pakistan-India War Just One Terrorist Attack Away?
The lack of any apparent strategy and political determination in both India and Pakistan to establish a peacemaking process is dangerous. Continued violence across the Line of Control, the lack of progress in redressing the suffering and the interests of Kashmiri Muslims, and the absence of sustained serious diplomacy between India and Pakistan leave the two countries one high-casualty terrorist… → Read More
Alliance Policy for Today’s North Korea
This half-day conference brings together experts on North Korea from the United States and Japan to sift through the latest information on North Korea’s economy, military, and society. → Read More