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David Malone
For David Malone's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2004
2003: worst and best of times for U.N.
Twelve months ago, the international community heaved a sigh of relief as the major powers appeared to reach a compromise on how to manage Iraq. But Washington's determination to act on its own cut short the role of U.N. weapons inspectors and challenged the very notion that the organization has a role to play in issues of peace and security.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2001
Trade NMD for the CTBT
The new administration in Washington has taken office firmly committed to the concept of a national missile defense system, arguing that future U.S. security needs take precedence over arms-control agreements rooted in Cold War history. Its views on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, an agreement signed in the late 1990s with the goal of confining nuclear testing to history, are less clear-cut. If friends and allies concede on NMD in principle, they might well be able to shape the final form of NMD and persuade Washington to accept the CTBT in return.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2000
Western peacekeepers' flight from Africa
The prospect of disasters in Africa concentrates the world's mind wonderfully on the problems and failures of international peacekeeping. We should focus also on the parallel danger of creeping apartheid. Sensitivity to body bags has made Western powers increasingly averse to the perils of peacekeeping. In conflict-prone areas outside their own neighborhood, they leave risky operations to nonwhite soldiers. The result is that those with the military muscle to mount effective operations lack the courage of their convictions; those with the will lack the military means. Such a tribalization of peacekeeping undermines the solidarity of the international community in the shared management of a fragile world order.

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