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April 2, 2008
| Author: | Stephen E. Flynn, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies |
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Testimony
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February 27, 2008
| Author: | J. Michael McConnell |
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Essential Documents
Report
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February 21, 2008
| Authors: | Charles D. Ferguson, Fellow for Science and Technology Bruce W. MacDonald |
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Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
Charles D. Ferguson and Bruce W. MacDonald argue that by demonstrating its anti-satellite capability, the U.S. “was stepping briefly across a dangerous threshold, undercutting American and international criticism of China and threatening an arms race in space.”
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February 14, 2008
| Speaker: | Joshua W. Busby, Assistant Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin; Author, Climate Change and National Security: An Agenda for Action |
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| Presider: | Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Listen to Joshua Busby, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, discuss the relationship between climate change and U.S. national security interests with students as part of the CFR Academic Conference Call Series.
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February 13, 2008
Podcast
The long-term stability of the army is a topic of intense debate inside the Pentagon, but some critics, including two army officers, are taking their concerns public.
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February 13, 2008
| Speakers: | Robert D. Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Edward L. Morse, Managing Director and Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers Philip D. Zelikow, White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University Of Virginia |
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| Presider: | Paula Stern, Chairwoman, The Stern Group, Inc. |
Transcript
See more in United States, Energy, Energy Security
January 24, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
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January 7, 2008
| Authors: | Emma Chanlett-Avery Bruce Vaughn |
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Must Read
A CRS Report for Congress explores the challenges and opportunities that the United States faces when pursuing bilateral and multilateral ties with Japan, Australia, and India.
See more in United States, Japan, India, Australasia and the Pacific, Defense Strategy
December 10, 2007
| Author: | Michael A. Levi, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and Environment |
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Op-Ed
The New Republic
Michael Levi writes that the “the NIE won't actually alter the debate about Iran.”
See more in Iran, Intelligence, Weapons of Mass Destruction
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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.
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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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