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March/April 2008
| Author: | Jerry Z. Muller |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Why ethnic nationalism will drive global politics for generations.
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March/April 2008
| Author: | Robert Kuttner |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
How the Danish model of social democracy offers important lessons for governments confronting the dilemmas of globalization.
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February 8, 2008
| Author: | Noah Feldman, Adjunct Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
New York Times
Noah Feldman explains that “if Turkey is to continue its integration into European and Western civilization, it needs to show that liberal values and Islam are not only compatible but complementary.”
See more in Turkey, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Religion
Updated: November 26, 2007
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Daily Analysis
Shifting demographics in Australia made the Asian immigrant votes critical to Kevin Rudd's victory in the November 24 general elections.
See more in Australasia and the Pacific, Immigration
November 16, 2007
| Author: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
New York Sun
November 15, 2007
Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
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
November 12, 2007
| Presider: | Steven Simon, Hassib Sabbagh Senior Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Panelists: | Paul Barrett, Businessweek Mona Eltahawy, Syndicated Columnist |
Transcript
Panel discussion of Muslim life in America with CFR Senior Fellow Steven Simon as Presider.
See more in United States, Religion
November 8, 2007
Must Read
As head of Congress and the major political operator for President Evo Morales, Bolivia's Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera stands in the eye of a political hurricane. The changes proposed by the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) government have unleashed protest from conservative sectors of society, leading to suspension of the Constituent Assembly called to revamp the nation's political institutions. Laura Carlsen from Center for International Policy interviews Alvaro Garcia Linera.
See more in Bolivia, Democracy and Human Rights, Society and Culture
September 21, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
See more in Israel, Religion, U.S. Election 2008
July 25, 2007
| Authors: | Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Jonathan Stevenson |
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Op-Ed
American Prospect
See more in Ireland, Iraq, Society and Culture, Terrorism
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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.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby 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 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.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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