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September 25, 2009
Interview
CFR's Michael Levi says the disclosure of a clandestine uranium enrichment plant in Iran heightens suspicions the country is seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and raises new pressure for tougher sanctions.
See more in Iran, Proliferation
September 24, 2009
Interview
President Barack Obama's week of summitry indicates that, increasingly, the most vexing global problems are unlikely to be solved by treaties, says CFR President Richard N. Haass. An informal approach in which nations coordinate strategies could be more productive, he says.
See more in United States, International Organizations, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 23, 2009
Interview
CFR's Steven A. Cook says it was significant that President Barack Obama was pressing for "permanent status negotiations" between Israel and Palestine and not another interim accord, but adds that "the conditions on the ground don't lend themselves to progress."
See more in Israel, Public Diplomacy
September 22, 2009
Audio
Listen to Ray Takeyh, CFR's senior fellow for middle eastern studies, and James Lindsay, CFR's director of studies, discuss nuclear proliferation and Iran's nuclear program in advance of high-level talks at the United Nations.
See more in Iran, International Organizations, Proliferation
September 22, 2009
Transcript
Ray Takeyh and James M. Lindsay discuss Iran and nonproliferation.
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September 14, 2009
Interview
Thomas J. Miller, a veteran U.S. diplomat, says President Barack Obama should highlight the value of multilateral diplomacy and the tension between north and south Sudan in his UN General Assembly speech on September 23.
See more in United States, International Organizations, Diplomacy
September 8, 2009
Interview
Amid Tehran's fresh assertions of its right to pursue uranium enrichment, CFR's Ray Takeyh says the widening split in Iran's political system casts greater doubt on prospects for nuclear talks with the West.
See more in Iran, Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 3, 2009
Interview
Korea expert Victor D. Cha says effective implementation of the UN sanctions imposed on Pyongyang in June prompted recent conciliatory gestures from the regime. He says the United States might resume bilateral talks with North Korea in addition to pursuing multilateral discussions on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
See more in North Korea, Diplomacy, Proliferation, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 2, 2009
Interview
George Perkovich, an expert on nuclear policy, says despite the world's revulsion at the apparently staged elections in Iran, the United States should be prepared to talk to the Iranian government.
See more in Iran, Weapons of Mass Destruction
August 25, 2009
Interview
Veteran reporter Jane Arraf says the massive truck bombings of August 19 in Baghdad have shaken the people and government. She says the United States may have to take a new look at the policy of leaving security under Iraqi control in urban centers.
See more in Iraq, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy
August 21, 2009
Interview
Elizabeth Rubin, a journalist who has reported extensively on Afghanistan, says beyond the presidential elections, U.S. officials must become more closely involved in improving Afghan governance or face failure there.
See more in Afghanistan, Elections, U.S. Strategy and Politics
August 19, 2009
Interview
CFR Mideast expert Steven A. Cook says Egypt and the United States have moved to end their estrangement but haven't made much progress in advancing Arab-Israeli peace.
See more in Egypt, U.S. Strategy and Politics
August 17, 2009
Interview
Ahmed Rashid, a leading expert on Afghanistan, says the August 20 presidential election in Afghanistan is "critically important" to achieving political stability, but he worries the vote will trigger controversy.
See more in Afghanistan, Elections, Conflict Assessment
August 10, 2009
Interview
CFR's Steven Simon says President Obama has asserted a new counterterrorism approach that balances aggressiveness on some fronts with a milder set of interrogation and detention policies.
See more in Afghanistan, Counterterrorism
August 5, 2009
Interview
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seven-nation trip to Africa will highlight U.S. security concerns from Somalia to Nigeria and expand on efforts to engage leading African states on governance and trade issues.
See more in Africa, Somalia, Foreign Aid
August 4, 2009
Interview
CFR Korea expert Scott A. Snyder says the visit to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton, which won the pardon of two U.S. journalists, provided a rare opportunity to gauge North Korea's views as nuclear talks remain stalled.
See more in North Korea, Proliferation, U.S. Strategy and Politics
August 3, 2009
Interview
With the reelection of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now formalized, Iranian expert Farideh Farhi says there is now "the possibility of increased radicalism among the population."
See more in Iran, Democracy and Human Rights, Elections
July 29, 2009
Interview
Expert David Makovsky says there are unnecessary U.S.-Israel tensions over Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank. The dispute is impeding one of the few areas where progress can be made with Palestinians.
See more in Israel, International Peace and Security
July 27, 2009
Interview
Thomas W. Lippman, a specialist on Persian Gulf security, says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's warning about a U.S. "defense umbrella" to protect regional states from any Iranian nuclear arms program makes sense as a form of deterrence.
See more in Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics
July 24, 2009
Interview
Veteran Eurasia expert Steven Pifer says Vice President Joseph Biden's trip to Ukraine and Georgia was meant to balance President Barack Obama's Moscow summit earlier in the month, but in both countries, Biden had to convey tough messages.
See more in Georgia, Ukraine, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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.
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