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  • Baluch expert and left wing theorist at the Carnegie Institute. (Owen Lattimore received funding from the Carnegie Corporation)

  • Former managing editor of The New Republic,

  • Former senior fellow in charge of Asian studies at the Brookings Institution,

  • Senior fellow at the East-West Center and Lecturer in Asian studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.  (Owen Lattimore also lectured at Johns Hopkins University but in the Page school, Alger Hiss attended JHU.)

  • Adjunct professor of Asian studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

  • Harrison wrote about the dangers of a pro-Soviet Baluch revolt in Pakistan.

  • I always wondered if he was warning us.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: Nightmare in Baluchistan Foreign Policy 32, Fall 1978.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: Dateline Afghanistan: Exit through Finland? Foreign Policy 41, Winter 1980-81.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: Fanning the Flames in South Asia Foreign Policy 45, Winter 1981-82.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: A Breakthrough in Afghanistan? Foreign Policy 51, Summer 1983.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: Cut a Regional Deal Foreign Policy 62, Spring 1986.

  • Harrison, Selig S.: Inside the Afghan Talks Foreign Policy 72, Fall 1988.

  • Harrison, Selig S. In Afghanistan's Shadow Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations

  • United States Military Strategy in Asia After the Cold War: Harrison Interview

  • "SELIG S. HARRISON, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy, is a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and director of the Century Foundation’s Project on the United States and the Future of Korea.  He has specialized in South Asia and East Asia for fifty years as a journalist and scholar and is the author of six books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia, including Korean Endgame: A Strategy For Reunification and U.S. Disengagement, published by Princeton University Press in May 2002." Selig S. Harrison

  • Strongly pro Communist and an advocate of Red China domination of the Republic of China as well as an advocate of a pro-North Korea line. http://www.cdi.org/adm/1039/Harrison.html

  • "GOOD MORNING PYONGYANG. On January 25, Good Morning America co- host Charles Gibson discussed the future of U.S. troops in South Korea with two experts. One declared that the reason North Korea "has the posture they have is because they fear the power of the American forces, particularly the American nuclear forces, and the only way they think that they can counter that is to build up a very powerful offensive force of their own so they'd make the cost of any move into North Korea so great that we wouldn't do it."

    When Gibson pointed out that the mentally "unstable" leaders of North Korea were working on nuclear weapons, the expert shot back, "Well what would you do if you faced American nuclear weapons? Wouldn't you try to develop your own nuclear weapons to counteract them?" Finally, Gibson was told that "there are hawks and doves in North Korea...and the problem for the United States is to do things that will strengthen the doves, not the hawks."

    So who was this expert? Richard Barnet of IPS? Noam Chomsky? No, it was Selig Harrison, a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who served The Washington Post as a South Asia correspondent (1962-65), an editorial writer (1966-67), a North East Asia correspondent (1968-72) and finally as national affairs reporter (1972-74)." MediaWatch -- 02/01/1990 -- NewsBites:  Ray and Frances Shop for Bad News

  • I don't think that they have made nuclear weapons. They have accumulated some plutonium, which they could use to make nuclear weapons if they were to increase the amount, but they don't want to. They want to trade that for acceptance by the world, political and economic normalization, and economic help that they desperately need.

    The only route really is diplomacy. And it's beginning to work because we're beginning to recognize that North Korea is willing to bargain to end its nuclear weapons program. Who's The Enemy Now? Video Transcript

  • Owen Lattimore and Harrison both corresponded with Sheila Payne wife of Robert Payne prolific author and biographer of many Communist leaders, Mao, Trotsky, Lenin, Marx, etc... http://www.sunysb.edu/library/mc318.htm

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