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Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
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Phone: +1-202-509-8476
E-mail: sbiddle@cfr.org
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Washington, DC
November 20, 2007
Transcript
A CFR teleconference with Stephen Biddle about the situation in Iraq.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Nation Building
November 15, 2007
Interview
Stephen Biddle, CFR’s top defense analyst, cites positive developments in Iraq on Sunni security cooperation and reconciliation efforts from the Shiite-led government.
See more in Iraq, Elections, Nation Building, Ethnicity and National Identity
Updated: October 1, 2007
Online Debate
Lawrence J. Korb of the Center for American Progress and CFR's Stephen Biddle debate the accuracy of American military statistics on violence in Iraq.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy
Updated: September 28, 2007
Backgrounder
Gen. David Petraeus’ assertions about falling casualties in Iraq are supported by a range of objective sources. But his testimony to Congress does not establish whether the decline is attributable to the surge or to sectarian cleansing.
See more in Iraq, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 11, 2007
Other Report
Six CFR experts provide their own analysis of the Petraeus and Crocker testimony.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
July 25, 2007
Testimony
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Congress
July 12, 2007
Interview
Stephen Biddle, CFR’s top military analyst on Iraq, says the only analytically sound alternatives in Iraq are to either pull out now, or to stick with a revamped “surge.”
See more in Iraq, Conflict Assessment, U.S. Strategy and Politics
July 11, 2007
Op-Ed
Washington Post
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, U.S. Election 2008
June 3, 2007
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
See more in United States, Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Nation Building
May 8, 2007
Transcript
Stephen Biddle and Max Boot, who have both recently been in Iraq , discuss the troop surge.
See more in Iraq, U.S. Strategy and Politics
January 15, 2007
Article
The National Interest
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
December 7, 2006
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The prognosis for Iraq looks bad and is getting worse. If the trend does not improve soon, the United States may have no choice but to cut its losses and get out. Recently, many have looked to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to engineer a change in strategy that might arrest this decline, and the ISG's report does indeed contain some useful ideas and worthwhile recommendations. But on the whole, it offers the political groundwork for a complete withdrawal more than it offers a sustainable solution to the conflict.
See more in Iraq
11.10.2006
Article
National Interest
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
October 23, 2006
Transcript
Council Fellows Stephen Biddle and Steven Cook, join George Mason University professors Eric McGlinchey and Peter Mandaville at a Town Hall meeting to discuss the Middle East and Iraq.
See more in Middle East, Iraq
October 5, 2006
Interview
A group of experts advises everything from joint Afghan-Pakistani-NATO border patrols to more efficient reconstruction aid to help secure Afghanistan, as it marks a violent fifth year since the fall of the Taliban.
See more in Afghanistan, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
August 15, 2006
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in Iran, Iraq, Terrorism
July/August 2006
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
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March 20, 2006
Transcript
On the anniversary of U.S. military action in Iraq, Stephen Biddle and Jane Arraf discuss the nature of the conflict and strategies for moving forward.
See more in Iraq, Nation Building, Civil Reconstruction
March 20, 2006
Audio
Listen to Council experts discuss U.S. military action in Iraq.
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
Complete list of CFR Books
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