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April 17, 2008
See more in Middle East, Israel, Palestinian Authority, International Peace and Security
April 15, 2008
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Grand Strategy
April 8, 2008
See more in Middle East, Society and Culture, Religion
February 14, 2008
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January 15, 2008
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
December 5, 2007
November 30, 2007
November 12, 2007
November 8, 2007
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November 7, 2007
| Author: | Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa |
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See more in Zimbabwe, Conflict Prevention
October 30, 2007
September 19, 2007
See more in Geoeconomics, Labor, Trade, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September 18, 2007
May 21, 2007
| Author: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow |
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Ruling But Not Governing provides valuable insight into the political dynamics that perpetuate authoritarian regimes and offers novel ways to promote democratic change. In this new CFR book, author and Council Douglas Dillon Fellow Steven A. Cook highlights the critical role that the military plays in the stability of the Egyptian, Algerian, and, until recently, Turkish political systems.
See more in Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, Democracy and Human Rights
May 16, 2007
The International Monetary Fund’s legitimacy and status must be strengthened now so that it can be an effective manager when the next global crisis breaks out, urges a new Council Special Report. “Economic and financial conditions can change with alarming speed, and crises are bound to recur,” warns report author and Council Senior Fellow Peter Kenen, a renowned economist. “It would be far harder to reform the Fund in the midst of a new crisis than to do so now. It is easier to modernize a fire brigade when there are few fires than in the midst of a major conflagration.”
See more in United States, International Organizations
May 8, 2007
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W.W. Norton), by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller professor of philosophy at Princeton University, has won the Council’s sixth annual Arthur Ross Book Award for the best book published in the past two years on international affairs. Kwame will receive $25,000 and be honored at the Council on Foreign Relations this June.
May 7, 2007
“Few African countries are more important to U.S. interests than Angola. The second-largest oil producer in Africa, Angola’s success or failure in transitioning from nearly thirty years of war toward peace and democracy has implications for the stability of the U.S. oil supply as well as the stability of central and southern Africa,” finds a Council-sponsored Independent Commission in a report produced by the Center for Preventive Action, Toward an Angola Strategy: Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations.
See more in Angola, Nation Building
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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.
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