U.S. Military Intervention for Libya?
CFR fellows Elliott Abrams and Micah Zenko debate whether the United States and its allies should intervene beyond sanctions on the Qaddafi regime.
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CFR fellows Elliott Abrams and Micah Zenko debate whether the United States and its allies should intervene beyond sanctions on the Qaddafi regime.
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Experts debate the degree to which opening more federal lands and waters to drilling will improve U.S. energy security.
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Sara Banaszak of the American Petroleum Institute and Morgan Gray of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming debate whether opening restricted federal lands and waters will have any effect on the continuing rise in the price of oil.
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CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of supporting the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
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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 success.
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Two Mideast experts weigh the merits of isolating or engaging the terrorist group.
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Two experts discuss how the United States should confront shifts in global political power in the 21st century.
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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.
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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.
Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute and James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
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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.
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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.
Two policy experts discuss potential scenarios that could play out if Kosovo declares independence and the United States honors its national sovereignty.
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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.
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Michael Mariotte of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Steven Kerekes at the Nuclear Energy Institute debate the role of nuclear power in climate change policy.
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Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Jorge Chabat, professor at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, debate what an ideal security cooperation agreement would look like between the United States and Mexico.
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Two experts debate the extent to which U.S. security is affected by immigration.
See more in United States, Homeland Security, Immigration
Matthew Levitt of the Washington Institute and Peter Crail of the Arms Control Association debate the merits of using sanctions to try to force Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
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Hassan Abbas of Harvard University and Moeed Yusuf, director of strategic studies at the Islamabad-based think tank Strategic and Economic Policy Research, discuss whether the United States should continue its support of President Musharraf.
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Lawrence J. Korb of the Center for American Progress and CFR's Stephen Biddle debate the accuracy of American military statistics on violence in Iraq.
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The Future of U.S. Special Operations Forces
Special operations play a critical role in how the United States confronts irregular threats, but to have long-term strategic impact, the author argues, numerous shortfalls must be addressed.
Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies
The author analyzes the potentially serious consequences, both at home and abroad, of a lightly overseen drone program and makes recommendations for improving its governance.
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