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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
Updated: May 15, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Experts warn of a humanitarian tragedy in Myanmar, but the country's government continues to block widespread access for aid workers.
See more in Burma/Myanmar, International Peace and Security, Humanitarian Intervention
Updated: May 12, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Myanmar's disaster is compounded by its government, which appears to be restricting aid for political reasons.
See more in Burma/Myanmar, International Peace and Security, Humanitarian Intervention
May 7, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael J. Gerson debunks the myth of a Republican “war on science” and discusses the moral politics of science and law.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
April 28, 2008
| Author: | Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health |
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Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Laurie Garrett discusses the confluence of health crises, including bird flu, climate changes and energy and food costs, in Bangladesh.
See more in Bangladesh, Global Health
April 11, 2008
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Five years ago, one could not drive across Lusaka without being slowed by regular funeral processions. No longer, says Michael Gerson.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Health
March 31, 2008
| Speaker: | General William Lord, Commander, Air Force Cyberspace Command |
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| Presider: | Colonel Jeffrey B. Kendall, USAF, Military Fellow, U.S. Air Force, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
This roundtable dicussion is joined by Major General Bill Lord, who is the commander of the Air Force Cyberspace Command.
See more in Defense/Homeland Security, Technology and Foreign Policy
March 2008
| Author: | James Fallows |
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Must Read
As the countdown to the Beijing Olympics nears four months, James Fallows explains the intricacies of China's internet censorship tools and how the Chinese government will allow foreign visitors access an unfettered web. Chinese citizens are often blocked from information, such as reports on crack downs in Tibet, that the government prefers to cover up. This article reveals the government’s motives behind the censorship and how the “Great Firewall of China” works.
See more in China, Health, Science, and Technology, Information & Communication
August 21, 2007
| Author: | Joshua Davis |
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Must Read
Wired's Joshua Davis reports on a rogue computer network that crashed Estonia's Internet, launching what he calls Web War I.
See more in Europe/Russia, Northern Europe, Defense Technology, Technology and Foreign Policy
December 2007
| Author: | Shane P. Courville |
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Must Read
The Center for Strategy and Technology suggests that the Air Force continue to anticipate and develop countermeasures to emerging threats in order to proactively protect and dominate the cyberspace domain of the future.
See more in United States, Defense Strategy, Technology and Foreign Policy
Elections (3/22): Israeli politics expert David Makovsky tells cfr.org's Bernard Gwertzman next week's vote will likely bring a coalition goverment to power led by the centrist Kadima Party.
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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.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
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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