Johanna Mendelson Forman

Johanna Mendelson Forman is senior associate with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Among her publications is Investing in a New Unilateralism: A Smart Power Approach to the United Nations (CSIS, January 2009)

Recent articles

The massacre of United Nations employees in Iraq on 19 August 2003 was a dark moment in the organisation's history. It also carries lessons for the United States in the age of Barack Obama, says Johanna Mendelson Forman.

(This article was first published on 19 August 2009)

The “dependency theory” of the 1970s is no longer a relevant guide to understanding the needs of Latin America or how its relationship with the United States should develop, say Peter DeShazo & Johanna Mendelson Forman.

(This article was first published on 7 May 2009)

The United Nations world summit suggests that the Bush administration is starting to understand its need for allies, says Johanna Mendelson Forman of the UN Foundation.

Can the United Nations be reformed to make it a guarantor of human security and development in the 21st century? Johanna Mendelson Forman on the ideas and politics of a historic report.

How to ensure human security in an age of terrorism and pre-emptive war? As a United Nations think-tank publishes its proposals, two specialists map the international diplomatic minefield on which the UN, its friends and its enemies chart their course.