Rick Barton

Rick Barton is co-director of the post-conflict reconstruction project at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C., and a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Afghanistan and Pakistan: recommendations for Obama

America may not be losing the war in Afghanistan, but it is also not winning. Neither is the US approach in neighbouring Pakistan making friends or preventing new recruits from

By Karin von Hippel and Rick Barton

/ 3 Feb 2009

We cannot afford to fail

Ambassador L. Paul Bremer is in Washington at a critical moment in the US-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq. Anxiety is growing among the Iraqis as well as among coalition military

By Johanna Mendelson Forman, Rick Barton, Robert Orr, Bathsheba Crocker and John Hamre

/ 22 Jul 2003