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  • In the Wake of War
    Task Force Report
    September 2005

  • The Right Tools To Build Nations
    By Samuel R. Berger, Chairman, Stonebridge International and Brent Scowcroft, President and Founder, The Scowcroft Group
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    July 27, 2005

  • Improving U.S. Post-Conflict Capabilities: Report of an Independent Bipartisan Task Force
    Transcript
    July 27, 2005

  • Iraq: Democracy or Civil War
    By William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Military Affairs and Director of the Military Fellows Program
    Testimony
    September 11, 2006

  • Highlights of the Iraq Strategy Group
    Essential Documents
    January 2007

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  In the Wake of War: Getting Serious about Nation-Building

  Authors:	Brent Scowcroft, President and Founder, The Scowcroft Group Samuel R. Berger, Chairman, Stonebridge International

  Fall 2005
  National Interest

  "We can no longer treat "nation-building" as an occasional emergency rather than an ongoing reality of the post-Cold War world. Since 1993, from Mogadishu to Mosul, the United States has undertaken six such operations around the world. Currently, 135,000 U.S. troops remain on the ground in Iraq, at an approximate cost of $50 billion a year. In Afghanistan, three years after the Taliban fled, 9,000 NATO forces and 17,000 U.S. troops are left to secure the capital and countryside and to continue the hunt for Al-Qaeda. The pace of peacekeeping activities by the United Nations and regional organizations also continues to surge; the UN deploys 66,000 peacekeepers in 17 operations."

   

  • In the Wake of War; Scowcroft, Berger (84K PDF)

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  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.

  

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  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.

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