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April 27, 2008
| Author: | Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
New York Times
Leslie H. Gelb reviews Aram Roston's new book, “The Man Who Pushed America to War,” about Ahmad Chalabi.
See more in United States, Iraq
March 4, 2008
| Speaker: | Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University |
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| Presider: | Craig R. Whitney, Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times |
Video
Watch Fritz Stern, university professor emeritus at Columbia University, discuss the legacy of Hitler's transformation of Germany into a one-party dictatorship. This meeting was hosted in collaboration with the National History Center.
See more in Democracy and Human Rights
March 4, 2008
| Speaker: | Fritz Stern, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University |
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| Presider: | Craig R. Whitney, Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times |
Audio
Listen to Fritz Stern, university professor emeritus at Columbia University, discuss the legacy of Hitler's transformation of Germany into a one-party dictatorship. This meeting was hosted in collaboration with the National History Center.
See more in Democracy and Human Rights
February 7, 2008
| Speaker: | Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution; Author, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation |
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| Presider: | Jon Meacham, Editor, Newsweek |
Audio
Listen to Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution, discuss his book, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation.
February 7, 2008
| Speaker: | Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution; Author, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation |
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| Presider: | Jon Meacham, Editor, Newsweek |
Video
Watch Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution, discuss his book, The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation.
February 7, 2008
| Author: | Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History |
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Op-Ed
Bloomberg
Amity Shlaes notes that while the economy may not be the Republican front-runner's favorite topic, Senator McCain is still a pretty good candidate. Just don't say he's "teachable."
See more in United States, Economics, U.S. Election 2008
January 1, 2008
| Authors: | Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies Jonathan Stevenson |
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Article
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson write that "the history of the Vietnam War teaches that to preserve American strength and prestige, we must begin withdrawing from Iraq now."
See more in Vietnam, Iraq, Wars and Warfare
December 12, 2007
| Author: | Michael J. Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Michael Gerson looks at the history of conservatism.
December 9, 2007
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
Peter Beinart writes about the implications of the use of the term “World War IV ” in place of “war on terror.”
See more in Middle East, Wars and Warfare
November 30, 2007
| Speakers: | William Martin, Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow for Religion and Public Policy, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University Andrew Preston, Professor of History, Clare College, Cambridge University Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, George Washington University |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the historical impact of American evangelical Christians on U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Religion
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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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