January/February 2009
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
To be successful in the Middle East, the Obama administration will need to move beyond Iraq, find ways to deal constructively with Iran, and forge a final-status Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
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December 3, 2008
Backgrounder
President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., has criticized some of the Bush administration's counter-terrorism moves, calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and the outlawing of torture.
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December 2, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the recommendations of the new report Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, advocating a new approach in the region, focusing on the Arab-Israeli peace process and Iran's nuclear program.
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December 2, 2008
Video
Watch experts discuss the recommendations of the new report Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, advocating a new approach in the region, focusing on the Arab-Israeli peace process and Iran's nuclear program.
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December 2, 2008
News Release
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December 2, 2008
Transcript
The launch of the joint Council on Foreign Relations and Saban Center book Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, a series of policy recommendations for the next U.S. president pertaining to U.S. strategy in the Middle East.
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December 1, 2008
Video
Watch experts reflect on global challenges such as the rise of China, climate change, and energy security and how these affect the U.S.-Japan partnership.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
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December 1, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts reflect on global challenges such as the rise of China, climate change, and energy security and how these affect the U.S.-Japan partnership.
This session was part of the CFR Symposium on the U.S.-Japan Partnership: An Agenda for Change, cosponsored with the Asahi Shimbun.
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November 21, 2008
Video
A panel of experts discuss the prospect for U.S. leadership in the world under the Obama administration.
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November 21, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson writes that "administration officials believe they have taken precautions that will encourage Iraqi nationalism over a destructive pan-Shiism."
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Government Spending (12/4): Sebastian Mallaby argues that, “to get away with big government, you must have smart government,” in the Washington Post.
China Policy (12/8): Richard Haass argues China will be the most important foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration, in Newsweek.
Financial Crisis (12/3): Amity Shlaes argues that one reason markets reacted so negatively to a backward looking meter is the high standard set by our success in taming the business cycle since World War II, in Bloomberg.
Transition 2008 (12/3): Michael Gerson writes that “Obama's appointments reveal not just moderation but maturity,” in Washington Post.
Green Industry (12/1): David Victor argues that “the green view based on small sources and market power will give way to one based on scale and subsidies,” in Newsweek.
Mexico (12/1): Shannon O'Neil writes that it is time for Mexico to be a leader on the international front, on TheNews.com.
U.S. Economy (12/1): Amity Shlaes argues that massive government spending takes away jobs in the private sector, in the Wall Street Journal.
China (12/1): Elizabeth Economy looks at the leadership gap in China, in the Washington Post.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
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In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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.
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