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May 15, 2008
| Author: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Testimony
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May 15, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Meetings between President Bush and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah highlight emerging policy challenges to a relationship that stretches well beyond oil.
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May 15, 2008
| Author: | Jason Riley |
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Must Read
In an op-ed, Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal speculates that the issue of illegal immigration has faded from prominence in the 2008 presidential campaign because voters are generally "pro-immigrant but ambivalent about it." Riley says American culture is under assault not from immigrants, but from "liberal elites who reject the concept of assimilation."
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May 15, 2008
| Author: | Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance |
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Op-Ed
Baltimore Sun
Stewart Patrick addresses the difficult question of whether or not the UN should intervene in Myanmar and do something about the “callous indifference” that the ruling junta is showing towards its people.
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May 15, 2008
| Authors: | Jerome A. Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies Eva Pils |
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Article
Far Eastern Economic Review
Jerome A. Cohen and Eva Pils use the case of Hu Jia, 34—a Chinese commentator and activist convicted of undermining the State’s power—to highlight the serious flaws of the Chinese legal system.
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May 15, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
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May 15, 2008
David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, Washington Institute for Near East Policy interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
David Makovsky, an expert on Israeli politics, says there is concern a forced resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could unravel his efforts on Palestinian peace.
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May 14, 2008
| Speakers: | Charlene Barshefsky, Task Force Co-Chair and Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr Llp, Former U.S. Trade Representative General James T. Hill (Ret.), Task Force Co-Chair, Former Commander, U.S. Southern Command, and President, The Jt Hill Group, Inc. Shannon O'Neil, Task Force Director and Fellow for Latin American Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Karen J. DeYoung, Associate Editor and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, The Washington Post |
Transcript
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May 14, 2008
Interactive
This interactive quiz tests your knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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May 14, 2008
Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Josef Joffe, an expert on European and U.S. politics, notes unparalleled European interest in the U.S. presidential campaigns—and unrealistic expectations as well.
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Responsibility to Protect (5/15): Stewart Patrick urges the U.S., Britain, and France to submit a U.N. resolution insisting on immediate humanitarian access in Burma, in the Baltimore Sun.
Global Health (5/14): Michael Gerson urges the Senate to reauthorize PEPFAR, in the Washington Post.
Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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.
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