Morton Abramowitz

Morton Abramowitz is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation.


Essays

Global Governance

Appetite for Construction

| 08.29.07

Nation-building always looks so easy on paper. Time to let reality be a harsh teacher.

Security

In Defense of Striped Pants

| 03.01.05

Governments get the bureaucracies the deserve.

Security

Does Iraq Matter?

| 03.01.04

Realists, neocons, and liberals all agree that American failure in Iraq would be a catastrophe beyond Iraq. Really? How exactly?

Commentary

Global Governance

U.S. Hypocrisy Starves North Korea

| 02.03.12

Despite its humanitarian professions, Washington continues to deny food aid to an endangered North Korea.

Global Governance

The Year of Erdogan

| 12.27.11

Few international leaders covered themselves with much glory in 2011. Turkey’s prime minister did the trick.

Politics

North Korea and the Food-Aid Dilemma

| 12.13.11

The situation in North Korea is steadily worsening. Washington's stated commitments to humanitarianism ring hollow.

Society

Can Reform Come to Myanmar?

| 12.01.11

Clinton's visit is historic. But without economic reform, political change will never occur.

Society

Myanmar's Budding Political Spring

| 10.26.11

Myanmar is far from a democracy. But with Western help, its nascent reform movement may have a fighting chance.

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February 13, 2012