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April 4, 2008
| Author: | Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Op-Ed
New York Post
Max Boot argues that “by retreating from the streets of Basra, the British allowed the situation to spin out of control. That is a mistake we should not repeat in the rest of the country.”
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Democracy Promotion, Nation Building
March 20, 2008
| Author: | Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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Article
Time Magazine
Peter Beinart writes that the Iraq war has spelled the end for muscular moralism in U.S. foreign policy.
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
March/April 2008
| Author: | Larry Diamond |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The third wave of global democratization has stopped and begun to recede. Better governance is the key to a fourth.
See more in Democracy Promotion
February 29, 2008
Podcast
Thomas Carothers, a democracy promotion expert, discusses how the U.S. presidential candidate selection process compares to that of other democracies.
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
January 20, 2008
| Author: | Mohamad Bazzi, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Newsday
Mohamad Bazzi writes that Bush’s visit to the Middle East last week produced nothing to signal any hope of peace and democracy.
See more in Middle East, Egypt
Updated: March 24, 2008
| Authors: | Esther Pan |
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Backgrounder
Taiwan, whose leaders continue to talk about independence, remains a focal point of Chinese military modernization.
See more in China, Taiwan, Democracy Promotion, Sovereignty
January 2, 2008
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Richard N. Haass, an expert on the Middle East and South Asia from years in government, says that the latest developments in Pakistan lead him to see that country heading into a period of considerable “drift.”
See more in Pakistan, Democracy Promotion, Elections, Terrorism
January 2, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Bhutto’s assassination and the tumult that followed highlights serious problems in Pakistan’s transition toward democracy.
See more in Pakistan, Democracy Promotion, Elections, Terrorism
August 15, 2007
| Speaker: | Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister, Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
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| Presider: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Pakistan's former Prime Minister talks about the challenges facing her country.
See more in Pakistan, International Peace and Security
December 11, 2007
| Author: | Jerome A. Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
Jerome A. Cohen calls for legal reform in China.
See more in China, Democracy Promotion, Rule of Law
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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.
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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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