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About Johanna Mendelson Forman

Johanna Mendelson Forman is a senior associate in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC

Articles by Johanna Mendelson Forman

Monday 24th January

Haiti beyond failure: ingredients of change

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 24 January 2011
A year after the earthquake in Haiti, the tasks of reconstruction remain vast. A shadowy election and blocked political process reinforce the sense of drift. Yet a coherent international effort can still make a real difference, says Johanna Mendelson Forman.
Tuesday 13th July

Haiti's earthquake: a Port-au-Prince report

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 13 July 2010
Six months after the catastrophe in Haiti’s capital, the realities of insecurity, displacement and poverty co-exist with opportunities and agents of reconstruction. Johanna Mendelson Forman offers a view from the ground.
Tuesday 26th January

Haiti’s earthquake: a future after mercy

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 26 January 2010
The existing levels of human insecurity in Haiti make the country’s post-disaster recovery even more difficult. All the more important that the world gets the response right and makes a sustained commitment, says Johanna Mendelson Forman.
Thursday 20th August

The Baghdad bomb, the United Nations, and America

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 20 August 2009
The massacre of UN staff in Iraq on 19 August 2003 has lessons for the age of Barack Obama
Friday 8th May

Open veins, closed minds

Peter DeShazo and Johanna Mendelson Forman, 8 May 2009
Hugo Chávez’s gift to Barack Obama is a blast from the past not a guide to the future
Sunday 18th September

President Bush discovers the world is flat

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 18 September 2005
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.
Wednesday 23rd March

In Larger Freedom: Kofi Annan's challenge

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 23 March 2005
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.
Thursday 25th November

A 21st century mission? The UN high-level panel report

Johanna Mendelson Forman and D Austin Hare, 25 November 2004
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.
Thursday 11th March

The nation-building trap: Haiti after Aristide

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 11 March 2004
Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was restored to power by international help in 1994. A decade on, this "success" appears tainted by his second overthrow. What went wrong, and can the international community get it right next time? 
Thursday 18th December

The UN in 2003: a year of living dangerously

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 18 December 2003
The crisis over Iraq has brought the United Nations to a crossroads. At the end of a year when diplomacy was felled by force, the institution can regain its influence only by rethinking its core security mandate.
Thursday 21st August

From the ashes: a multilateral mission?

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 21 August 2003
Johanna Mendelson Forman, recently returned from Iraq, knew well many of those killed and injured in the bombing of the United Nations mission in Baghdad. In mourning her colleagues, she reflects on the meaning and implications of this event for the UN’s future role in the country.
Tuesday 22nd July

We cannot afford to fail

Robert Orr, Rick Barton, John Hamre, Johanna Mendelson Forman, and Bathsheba Crocker, 22 July 2003
The Iraq Reconstruction Assessment Mission, an independent team of experts commissioned by the Pentagon, recently published a report of their ten-day Iraqi tour. After presenting evidence to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the authors draw on their report to challenge the Coalition’s masters of war to a gargantuan effort of peacemaking and society-building.
Wednesday 16th April

Things Kofi Annan can do now

Johanna Mendelson Forman, 16 April 2003
The UN, centre stage in the prelude to the Iraq war, has been sidelined since its outbreak. But the organisation does not need to take its marching orders from sovereign governments. Its Secretary General, Kofi Annan, can seize the diplomatic initiative with five immediate, practical steps.
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