Word: andreasen
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...pressure. START expires in December of this year, meaning that an agreement will need to be reached by August if the treaty is to be approved by the U.S. Senate prior to START's expiration. Then there is an even more basic problem. "Over the past decade," says Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, "many of the career officials experienced in these issues have left government, and they have not been replaced during an era when arms control was not a priority." Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Striking the right tone for these negotiations is yet another challenge. Andreasen says that "both sides will want to avoid the Cold War dynamic of large, permanent delegations gathering in Geneva and facing off across a large table, pencils sharpened." But, he says, they must also acknowledge that "they have legitimate concerns regarding the size, posture and security of the other side's nuclear arsenals." The most likely sticking point will be agreeing on how to count nuclear weapons: specifically, whether to count all the weapons each country could potentially use or only the ones that are ready...
...Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Kennedy School institute once directed by former Obama campaign adviser Samantha Power. The agency review working group that Sewall will head is charged with managing and reviewing appointments to the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, among others. Lois E. Andreasen, the executive director of the Carr Center, said that Sewall’s colleagues at the center “felt that she would play in important role in the transition team as she had been very involved in the campaign.” Andreasen praised Sewall’s ability...
...Humanity United certainly gave us adequate funding for this particular project,” Andreasen said. “But of course I’m passionate about the idea of human rights, so there’s never enough funding for human rights...
...Lois E. Andreasen, executive director of the Carr Center, said that the grant is a step towards this goal...