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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.
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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.
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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
April 21, 2008
| Author: | Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International |
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Must Read
Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria argues that public humiliation does not work nearly as well on the regime in Beijing as private pressure.
See more in China
March 24, 2008
Alan D. Romberg, Distinguished Fellow, Director of East Asia Program, Henry L. Stimson Center interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Taiwan expert Alan D. Romberg says the election of Ma Ying-jeou as the island’s next president should usher in a new era of less contentious cross-Strait relations.
See more in China, Taiwan, Elections, Sovereignty
March 7, 2008
Henry Siegman, Director, United States/Middle East Project interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Henry Siegman, an expert on Middle East negotiations, says no peace will be possible between Israel and the Palestinians unless Hamas is brought into the talks.
See more in Middle East, Israel, Palestinian Authority, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy
February 12, 2008
Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, AIG Inc. interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Washington’s representative to talks on Kosovo, Frank G. Wisner, says Serbia will never recognize an independent Kosovo and that Russia’s role has been “unbelievably regrettable.”
See more in Kosovo, Serbia, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Sovereignty
Updated: February 8, 2008
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Daily Analysis
The growing appetite of Iraq’s Kurdish government, Washington’s most trusted ally, for control of their own national destiny has sparked worries that Kurdish nationalism could undermine fragile political progress in Baghdad.
See more in Iraq, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Nation Building
February 4, 2008
| Author: | George Wehrfritz |
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Must Read
According to Newsweek's George Wehrfritz, as Southeast Asia's prototypical strongman nears death, Indonesia sets the tone for an uncertain era.
See more in Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Nation Building
February 1, 2008
| Author: | Selig S. Harrison |
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Must Read
Selig Harrison of the New York Times says that whatever the outcome of the Pakistani elections, the existing multiethnic Pakistani state is not likely to survive for long unless it is radically restructured.
See more in Pakistan, Elections, Minorities, Diversity and Foreign Policy, Nation Building
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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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