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April 2, 2008
| Author: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy |
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Testimony
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
April 1, 2008
| Author: | Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations |
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Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall notes that, “NATO is actually doing far less than it should be doing. The current pace of operations creates a crisis-like environment in which the urgent crowds out the important.”
See more in NATO, NATO, Public Diplomacy
February 19, 2008
Must Read
PBS's Frontline explores the story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq, and how it forced the U.S. military to confront the rules of war in a way it never had to before.
See more in United States, Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Peacemaking
February 2008
| Author: | Denis M. Tull |
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Must Read
A German institute for international and security affairs calls on the EU to re-examine the underlying purposes of EUFOR Chad/CAR and consider abandoning the entire operation.
See more in Chad, International Organizations, International Peace and Security, Peacemaking
December 14, 2007
| Speakers: | Janusz Bugajski, Director, CSIS New European Democracies Project, Senior Fellow, CSIS Europe Program Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University Daniel Serwer, Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations and The Centers of Innovation, United States Institue of Peace Dimitri Simes, President, The Nixon Center |
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| Presider: | Paul Stares, General John W. Vessey Denior Fellow for Conflict prevention and Director of the Center for Preventative Action, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
Four speakers discuss the consequences of an independent Kosovo.
See more in Kosovo, Serbia, Nationalism
December 9, 2007
| Author: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy |
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Op-Ed
Washington Post
Stephen Biddle argues that if the U.S. sees the reduction in violence in Iraq as an opportunity to bring its troops home, much of what has been gained could be lost.
See more in Iraq, Nation Building, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated: November 26, 2007
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Daily Analysis
The Bush administration is convening a conference in Annapolis to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Skeptics, however, abound.
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, International Crime, International Law
November 20, 2007
Samuel Assefa, Ethiopia’s ambassador to the United States interviewed by Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor
Interview
Ethiopia’s U.S. ambassador says his government needs more international help in securing Somalia and is wrongly blamed by Congress for rights abuses.
See more in Horn of Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Democracy and Human Rights, Nation Building, International Organizations, International Peace and Security, Congress, Foreign Aid
November 8, 2007
Must Read
Darfur online forum features a debate between Sudan experts Alex De Waal and John Prendergast.
See more in Africa, Sudan, International Organizations, International Peace and Security, Refugees and the Displaced
October 23, 2007
Jan Eliasson, UN Special Envoy for Darfur interviewed by Stephanie Hanson, News Editor
Interview
Jan Eliasson, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy for Darfur, says any new political agreement on Darfur must reflect the realities on the ground.
See more in Sudan, International Organizations
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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.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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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