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March 18, 2008
| Authors: | Lee Hudson Teslik, Assistant Editor Toni Johnson, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Heavy healthcare costs have some U.S. corporations fearing for their future competitiveness in the global marketplace.
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March 6, 2008
Essential Documents
Report
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January 2008
Essential Documents
Report
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December 26, 2007
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Daily Analysis
As concerns grow over the increasing scarcity of fresh water, some experts weigh trading it as a commodity.
See more in Economics, Natural Resources Management
November 9, 2007
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Daily Analysis
With the number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans already at 1.6 million, soldiers’ advocates say a new U.S. health care crisis looms.
See more in United States, Defense Policy & Budget, Congress
October 31, 2007
| Speakers: | Mary K. Bush, Bush International, Chair, HELP Commission Leo J. Hindery, Intermedia Partners, Vice Chair, HELP Commission James A. Harmon, Harmon & Co., Former Chair, Ex-Im Bank |
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Transcript
The panels from the HELP Commission discuss how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of U.S. foreign aid. The HELP Commission was established by the U.S. Congress to determine how to achieve these goals, and our panel will review its current work as well as additional measures that can be taken to improve U.S. foreign assistance programs.
See more in Africa, United States, Poverty, Women, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Foreign Aid
October 1, 2007
| Author: | George Mason University School of Law |
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Must Read
The collection of essays focusing on different concerns about vaccine prioritization.
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July 11, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
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July 9, 2007
Daily Analysis
With the volume of illegal immigrants flowing across the U.S. border fueling an emotional debate in Washington, the impact of immigration policy on foreign health workers has been overshadowed.
See more in United States, Immigration
May/June 2007
| Authors: | Nicholas N. Eberstadt Hans Groth |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region's birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe's elderly are exceptionally healthy. That means they could be more productive for longer than their predecessors were. If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region's next great economic asset.
See more in Western Europe, Population
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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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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