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Updated: April 2, 2008
| Author: | Preeti Bhattacharji |
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Backgrounder
Despite its recent willingness to combat terrorism, Sudan is still considered a state sponsor because of its ties to Hamas, the Iraqi insurgency, and violence in Darfur.
See more in Sudan, International Peace and Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 12, 2008
| Author: | Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
Max Boot looks at which presidential candidate “an Ahmadinejad, Assad or Kim would fear the most.”
See more in North Korea, Middle East, U.S. Election 2008
Updated: January 23, 2008
Backgrounder
The U.S. State Department continues to list Cuba as a state sponsor of terror, though most experts say the country no longer poses a threat to U.S. national security.
Updated: October 25, 2007
Backgrounder
Three decades after its formation, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps has reached the upper echelons of government power while attracting new scrutiny, and likely sanctions, from the West.
Updated: August 2007
Backgrounder
The U.S. government designates Iran as the "most active state sponsor of terrorism," which feeds concerns about Iran's growing nuclear program.
See more in Iran
July 2, 2007
Daily Analysis
The SEC’s new terrorism blacklist provokes anger from some major global companies and raises questions about the value of terror lists more generally.
See more in United States, Terrorist Financing
June 2007
Essential Documents
Report
January 26, 2007
Podcast
Iranian expert Kaveh L. Afrasiabi says pressure by the United States on Tehran may backfire and will not push Tehran to give up its nuclear program.
See more in Iran, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated: October 16, 2007
| Author: | Eben Kaplan, Associate Editor |
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Backgrounder
Libya, for years a thorn in the side of U.S. policymakers, has boosted its profile in recent years, renouncing terrorism and abandoning its WMD. In response, the U.S. State Department has removed Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism and plans to resume normal diplomatic relations.
See more in Libya, U.S. Strategy and Politics
June 8, 2006
Daily Analysis
Libya's abandonment of its WMD program was a major foreign policy win for the Bush administration. Having resumed diplomatic ties with the one-time rogue, U.S. officials are hoping for similar results with Iran and North Korea.
See more in Libya, U.S. Strategy and Politics
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
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.
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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