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September 14, 2007
| Authors: | Christopher M. Blanchard Alfred B. Prados |
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Must Read
This CRS report for Congress reviews allegations of Saudi involvement in terrorist financing together with Saudi rebuttals, discusses the question of Saudi support for Palestinian organizations and religious charities and schools abroad, discusses recent steps taken by Saudi Arabia to counter terrorist financing (many in conjunction with the United States), and suggests some implications of recent Saudi actions for the war on terrorism.
See more in United States, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism
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, State Sponsors of Terrorism
May 3, 2007
| Author: | Matthew Levitt |
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Must Read
This paper from Matthew Levitt, director of the Stein program on terrorism, intelligence and policy at the Washington Institute describes extensive US and British actions actions designed to block channels of financial support used by international terrorists.
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March 26, 2007
| Author: | Michael Jacobson |
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Must Read
In this policy paper, Michael Jacobson, a senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence, and Policy, says that despite new British initiatives to combat terrorist financing following the July 2005 terrorist subway and bus attacks in London and the disrupted terrorist plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes flying from Heathrow airport in August 2006, the efforts of the European Union (EU) to do the same lack consistency and effect. He says bureaucratic obstacles limit European efforts to designate terrorist entities and freeze their assets.
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March 23, 2007
Podcast
Matthew Levitt, an expert on terrorism financing, applauds efforts by U.S. officials to "think outside the box" and apply financial pressure against Iranian banks.
March 6, 2007
| Author: | Matthew Levitt |
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Must Read
Notes of remarks by Matthew Levitt at a recent Washington Institute policy forum on combating terrorism financing in which he said that in addition to publicly reported interventions to disrupt the financing of terrorist activities, the US government and its allies are also conducting equally productive anti-terror activities through diplomacy, law enforcement, covert activity, and intelligence collection.
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January 31, 2007
Podcast
Former Commerce Department official Sue E. Eckert says terrorist financial networks have adapted, and Washington must rethink its approach if it is to keep money out of terrorists' hands.
See more in International Crime
January 31, 2007
Daily Analysis
As terrorist financial networks adapt, the United States must constantly reevaluate its own approach to targeting them.
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January 10, 2007
| Speakers: | David D. Aufhauser, Global General Counsel, UBS Investment Bank Sue E. Eckert, Senior Fellow, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics,, Stanford University |
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| Presider: | Maurice Sonnenberg, Senior International Adviser, Bear Stearns & Co./Greenberg Traurig LLP |
Transcript
Three experts discuss the sources of terrorist funds, what efforts are underway to track and freeze terrorist assets, and how effectively terrorist organizations are using the global financial system to support their activities.
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April 4, 2006
| Author: | Eben Kaplan, Associate Editor |
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Backgrounder
A lower-profile but still crucial aspect of global anti-terror efforts involves unraveling the networks that have funded attacks from New York to Bali. Terrorists have proven adept at maintaining financial links intact.
See more in International Crime
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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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