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  • Iraq: Democracy or Civil War
    By William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program
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    By Dr. Barnett R. Rubin, New York University
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  Bill Nash is new Acting Director of CFR’s Center for Preventive Action

  April 2, 2001
  Council on Foreign Relations

  April 2, 2001, New York, NY—Major General (Ret.) William Nash has been named Senior Fellow and Acting Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action (CPA), Council President Leslie H. Gelb announced today. “Bill Nash is one of the few Americans to have led both civilian and military peacekeeping operations,” said Mr. Gelb. “He has not only thought about how to prevent conflict, but has actually done it.”

  In 2000, at the request of the U.S. government, Nash became the regional administrator for the United Nations in northern Kosovo. Prior to going to Kosovo, he was the Director, Civil-Military Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C. When he retired from the Army in 1998, he became a Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

  Nash was commanding general of the United States Army’s 1st Armored Division from 1995-97. In 1996, he commanded Task Force Eagle, a multinational division of 25,000 soldiers from 12 nations charged with enforcing the military provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina. Nash was a platoon leader in Vietnam and an armored brigade commander in Operation Desert Storm.

  The CPA was established in 1994 to study and test conflict prevention. It proceeds with the belief that many of today's most serious international problems—ethnic conflicts, failing states, and humanitarian disasters—could be averted or ameliorated with effective early attention and action. The Center’s first project under Nash will be a roundtable series in New York and Washington, D.C., focusing on the current situation in and around Kosovo.

  The CPA’s advisory board is chaired by General John W. Vessey; Reynold Levy is the Vice Chair. The board includes former government officials such as Morton I. Abramowitz and Strobe Talbott, former military leaders such as General George Joulwan, heads of human rights organizations such as Kenneth Roth, and other leaders in the conflict prevention arena such as David A. Hamburg, Jane Holl Lute, Vincent A. Mai, and Barnett Rubin.

  The Council on Foreign Relations, founded in 1921 and based in New York, is a national nonpartisan membership organization and think tank dedicated to fostering America’s understanding of other nations through study and debate.

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  New CFR Books

  

  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.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  

  

  New Independent Task Force Reports

  Confronting Climate Change

  This report argues that the United States must lead with domestic action on climate change and proposes a U.S. negotiating strategy for a global UN climate agreement that includes commitments from all major economies, while also promoting a less formal Partnership for Climate Cooperation that would focus the world's largest emitters on implementing aggressive emissions reductions.

  U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality

  This Task Force report examines changes in Latin America and in U.S. influence there, while taking account of the region's enduring importance to the United States. The Task Force offers an agenda for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four critical areas that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.

  About Independent Task Forces at the Council.

  

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