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May 26, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Time Magazine
“Because Bill Clinton threw his body into the line, wrecking the Republican Party's intricate defenses, Obama today has the political room to run,” argues Peter Beinart.
See more in Presidency, U.S. Election 2008
May 2008
| Author: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health |
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Other Report
In this Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, Laurie Garrett addresses the mistakes in humanitarian food polices and maps out a better way forward.
See more in Global Health, Foreign Aid
May 16, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
In light of the debate over the deisgn of the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington DC, Michael Gerson comments on Dr. King’s place in the “distinguished tradition of African American outrage.”
See more in Society and Culture, U.S. Strategy and Politics
May 2008
Task Force Report No. 60
Task Force Report
This report recommends reframing U.S. policy around four critical areas—poverty and inequality, public security, migration, and energy security—that are of immediate concern to Latin America’s governments and citizens.
See more in Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, South America
May 15, 2008
| Author: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Testimony
See more in United States, China, Congress
May 15, 2008
| Author: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Testimony
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Congress
Updated: May 16, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Meetings between President Bush and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah highlight emerging policy challenges to a relationship that stretches well beyond oil.
See more in United States, Saudi Arabia
May 14, 2008
Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Josef Joffe, an expert on European and U.S. politics, notes unparalleled European interest in the U.S. presidential campaigns—and unrealistic expectations as well.
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, Media and Foreign Policy
May 14, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson considers the motives of seven senators who are blocking the passage of an A.I.D.S. relief bill, asking “How much do seven members of the U.S. Senate weigh?”
See more in Global Health, Congress, Foreign Aid
May 14, 2008
News Release
See more in Americas
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U.S. Politics (5/16): Peter Beinart looks at what Obama owes the Clintons, in Time.
Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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