Richard G. Lugar

Richard G. Lugar is ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and coauthor of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program.


Essays

Security

The New Energy Realists

| 06.01.06

Commentary

Politics

Overcoming Foreign-Policy Disunity

| 11.20.12

A bipartisan discussion about America in the world could help smooth differences in other areas.

Politics

Obama's Nuclear Misstep

| 02.21.12

Why the president should reverse his nuclear-enrichment and reprocessing decision.

Security

Expand Nunn-Lugar

| 01.29.10

The program is one of our best tools to counter nuclear proliferation.

Security

The Ticking Bomb

| 04.01.09

Obama and Medvedev have pledged to restart arms talks later this year. But Congress takes time to pass new agreements—which means the president needs to start negotiating now.

Economics

Fixing Foreign Assistance, Improving National Security

| 11.26.07

Foreign aid plays a vital role in American foreign policy. Senator Richard Lugar gives a blueprint for improving the way Washington gives it out.

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