• Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series

  Staff:	William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program

  November 2007 - Present

  The Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series provides a forum for experts from the U.S. government, military, private sector, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to assess U.S. post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization (PCRS) capabilities (military and civilian), discuss challenges in undertaking PCRS operations, and develop policy recommendations to improve future stabilization and reconstruction operations. The series will pay special attention to the prospect for increased civilian-military coordination in reconstruction efforts, progress within U.S. government agencies in implementing National Security Presidential Directive 44 (NSPD-44), and the experience of Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series: Building Civilian Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  February 19, 2008

  Related Project: Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series

  Presider:	William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Military Fellows Program, Council on Foreign Relations
  Speaker:	John Herbst, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. Department of State

   

  Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series: Improving Government-NGO Cooperation During Post-Conflict Operations

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  November 27, 2007

  Related Project: Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series

  Presider:	William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Military Fellows Program, Council on Foreign Relations
  Panelists:	John Agoglia, Director, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army
  	Nancy Lindborg, President, Mercy Corps
  	Gerald Martone, Director of Humanitarian Affairs, International Rescue Committee

   

  Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series: Developing Security Forces in a Post-Conflict Environment - The Case of Iraq

  Roundtable Meeting

  
  November 7, 2007

  Related Project: Post-Conflict Reconstruction Roundtable Series

  Presider:	Robert Farrell, U.S. Army Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
  Speaker:	Dana J. H. Pittard, Commanding General, National Training Center, U.S. Army

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  Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action

  Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.

  The United States in the New Asia

  For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.

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  New Books

  Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.

  

  In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.

  In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

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  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  James M. Lindsay
  Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9626 (NY); +1.202.509.8405 (DC)
  jlindsay@cfr.org

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