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May 7, 2008
Mitt Romney interviewed by Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer
Interview
Mitt Romney, president and CEO of the organizing committee for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, says China should take “symbolic action” to let the world know it is willing to listen to their concerns about its human rights record.
See more in China, Human Rights, Society and Culture
Summer, 2000
| Author: | Peter W. Rodman |
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Must Read
Peter W. Rodman examines anti-Americanism which has increasingly become a global phenomenon.
See more in Nationalism, Society and Culture
April 30, 2008
| Author: | Stuart W. Bowen |
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Essential Documents
Report
See more in Iraq, Nation Building
April 30, 2008
Essential Documents
Report
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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, Nation Building, Natural Resources Management
May/June 2008
| Author: | Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become a stain on the United States' reputation. Shutting it down will cause new problems. Rather than hold terrorism suspects in preventive detention, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
See more in Human Rights
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, Nation Building
April 23, 2008
| Author: | Jayshree Bajoria, Staff Writer |
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Backgrounder
Nationalism in China, surging amid protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, increasingly fills the role Maoism played before China embraced capitalism.
See more in China, Nationalism
April 23, 2008
Edward Friedman, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."
See more in China, Taiwan, East Asia, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Nationalism
April 21, 2008
Allan Gyngell, Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Allan Gyngell, a former Australian diplomat, says there is concern in Australia and East Asia that the next U.S. president might retreat from the United States' support for free trade.
See more in United States, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, Elections
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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.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Three-Front War (4/30): Michael Gerson argues that a decent outcome in Iraq would be considerably devalued if counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan stall, 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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