Richard W. Parker
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Richard Parker is a professor at University of Connecticut School of Law and Founder and Executive Director of the new American Foreign Policy Project (AFPP). AFPP convenes large, inter-disciplinary teams of top experts to collaboratively develop sound policy on the toughest national security and foreign policy issues of the day, beginning with Iran. Dr. Parker has formerly served as Assistant General Counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, as Special Counsel to the Deputy Administrator of EPA, and a reserve officer in the U.S. Army (Military Intelligence). He holds a B.A. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

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Rescuing Nuclear Talks with Iran

Posted December 2, 2009 | 11:47:52 (EST)

While all eyes focus on Afghanistan, the situation with Iran is spiraling out of control. 

Iran failed to accept a tentative deal signed in Vienna last month to send most of its current stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad – and Secretary of State Clinton announced that the deal...

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Is a Deal with Iran Finally Taking Shape?

Posted November 18, 2009 | 11:19:56 (EST)

Rupert Murdoch's Times of London appears to have scored a scoop yesterday by reporting that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been "secretly negotiating a deal to persuade world powers to lift sanctions and allow Tehran to retain the bulk of its nuclear programme [including enrichment of uranium]...

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