Najam in The Boston Herald on N. Korea’s ‘Game of Chicken’
Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States following the recent launch of a short-range ballistic missile by North Korea.
Najam was quoted in a May 30, 2017 article in The Boston Herald entitled “Kim Jong Un’s ‘Game of Chicken’”
From the text of the article:
“This is playing a game of chicken with the planet’s future at risk. … I just hope that both sides are wise enough not to play it to the end,” said Adil Najam, the dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. “When messaging and diplomacy through words is abandoned, then messaging and diplomacy through weapons happens.”
Najam predicted the U.S. interceptor launch will likely trigger even more tests by the North Koreans.
Adil Najam is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School and a professor of international relations and also of earth and environment at Boston University. His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Najam was a co-author for the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); work for which the scientific panel was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the public understanding of climate change science.