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Lively week-long exchanges between two experts on a foreign policy topic in the news, conducted via email and posted on CFR.org.
Updated: May 9, 2008
Two CFR experts on the war, Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies, and Steven Simon, senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, debate whether the surge has put Iraq on the path to sucess.
See more in Iraq, Defense/Homeland Security, Wars and Warfare
Updated: May 2, 2008
Two Mideast experts weigh the merits of isolating or engaging the terrorist group.
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, International Peace and Security
Updated: April 18, 2008
Two experts discuss how the United States should confront shifts in global political power in the 21st century.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Grand Strategy
Updated: April 4, 2008
Robert Scott of the Economic Policy Institute and Daniel Ikenson of the Cato Institute debate how the next U.S. president should deal with China on trade.
See more in North America, China, Trade
Updated: March 18, 2008
Jeffrey J. Schott, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Thea M. Lee, policy director for the AFL-CIO, debate what the next president should do on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
See more in NAFTA, Labor, Trade
Updated: February 29, 2008
Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute and James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
See more in Iraq, Defense Strategy, Wars and Warfare
Updated: February 15, 2008
Craig Cohen of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Col. Garland H. Williams of the Army Management Staff College debate who should lead the United States’ post-conflict reconstruction efforts, the military or civilians.
See more in Nation Building, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated February 1, 2008
Jonathan Jacoby of the Center for American Progress and Robert Lane Greene of the Economist debate the shape of trade policy for the next U.S. administration.
Updated: December 28, 2007
Two policy experts discuss potential scenarios that could play out if Kosovo declares independence and the United States honors its national sovereignty.
See more in Kosovo, Civil Reconstruction
Updated: December 20, 2007
Doug Brooks, president of the International Peace Operations Association, and Erica Razook, a legal fellow for the Business and Human Rights Program at Amnesty International USA, debate the practical and legal issues surrounding private security contractors in war zones.
See more in Afghanistan, Iraq, Defense Strategy
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.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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In this POP, Adjunct Fellow Michelle D. Gavin suggests steps the Bush administration could take to promote political and ethnic reconciliation and to restore the viability of Kenya’s governing institutions.
In this paper, Senior Fellow Daniel Markey poses a set of recommendations for the United States to consider in response to Pakistan’s ongoing political crisis.
To address the growing importance of Africa, the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs present Beyond Humanitarianism, a collection of recent work that explains underlying trends on the continent and provides an absorbing look at Africa’s emergence as a strategic player on the world stage.
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