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April 30, 2008
| Author: | Stuart W. Bowen |
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Essential Documents
Report
See more in Iraq
April 30, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Oil and the status of Kirkuk continue to divide Iraq's central government and the Kurdish region, but signs of political progress are emerging.
See more in Iraq, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Natural Resources Management
April 24, 2008
| Author: | Mohamad Bazzi, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow |
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Op-Ed
Washington Times
Mohamad Bazzi argues that “the Iraqi government is about to make a major mistake: excluding Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process.”
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
April 16, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
China has a range of options for its citizens to access justice, but experts say none of them are particularly effective.
See more in China, Nation Building
April 15, 2008
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, Minster of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan interviewed by Greg Bruno, Staff Writer
Interview
Afghan Finance Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi says security and development could lead to a boom in his country’s natural resource sector.
See more in Afghanistan, Economic Development, International Peace and Security
April 14, 2008
Podcast
Rory Stewart, chief executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul, says the international community needs to target resources better in the country.
See more in Afghanistan, Civil Reconstruction
May/June 2008
| Author: | Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The Bush administration's new strategy in Iraq has produced short-term gains at the expense of the long-term goal of a stable, unitary Iraq.
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
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
February 22, 2008
| Author: | Husain Haqqani |
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Must Read
Husain Haqqani explains how the newly elected Pakistani government's platform of social reform differs from Pervez Musharraf's on-going goal of fighting extremists. "Pakistan is a nation in need of healing," writes Haqqani, adding that the courage citizens demonstrated by voting may signal that Pakistan is about to embark on a more constitutional governance.
See more in Pakistan, Elections
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Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
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 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.
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.
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