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Podcast
March 10, 2008
| Author: | Jorge G. Castañeda |
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Must Read
Jorge G. Castañeda argues that Raul Castro’s shy attempt to embark on a Vietnamese- or Chinese- style communism is neither progressive nor possible as long as Fidel Castro remains as Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and the government violates human rights.
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January 24, 2008
Podcast
Julia E. Sweig, CFR’s director for Latin America Studies, says a new U.S. president offers a chance to improve Washington’s relations with Cuba.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 22, 2008
Podcast
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist. [Editor's Note: In the original version of this podcast, CFR.org Editor Michael Moran mischaracterized China's use of a missile to destroy one of its own satellites in January, 2007].
See more in Pakistan, Space, U.S. Election 2008
Updated: February 21, 2008
| Author: | Stephanie Hanson, News Editor |
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Backgrounder
Fidel Castro resigned in February 2008, after forty-nine years as Cuba's leader. Experts caution that any changes within Cuba will come slowly, and do not anticipate any major changes in U.S. policy toward the island until a new U.S. president takes office in 2009.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 20, 2008
| Author: | Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History |
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Op-Ed
Bloomberg
For a successful Cuba policy, President Bush should take a lesson from his father's administration, argues Amity Shlaes.
See more in United States
February 19, 2008
| Speakers: | Jake Colvin, Director, USA*Engage, National Foreign Trade Council Peter Kornbluh, Director, Cuba Documentation Project, National Security Archive James P. McGovern, Member, U.S. House of Representatives, (D-MA) Philip Peters, Vice President, Lexington Institute Sarah Stephens, Executive Director, Center for Democracy in the Americas Julia E. Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director of Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Lawrence Wilkerson, Cochair, U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative, New America Foundation |
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| Presider: | Patrick Doherty, Director, U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative, New America Foundation |
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the implications of Fidel Castro's announcement that he will step down as the president of Cuba.
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February 19, 2008
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Essential Documents
Statement
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
February 19, 2008
| Speakers: | Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, United States Army (Retired) Julia E. Sweig, Council On Foreign Relations Peter Kornbluh, National Security Archive, George Washington University Philip Peters, Lexington Institute Sarah Stephens, Center For Democracy In The Americas Jake Colvin, National Foreign Trade Council James P. McGovern, Representative (D-MA) |
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Transcript
The panelists discuss what the resignation of Fidel Castro means for Cuba and the future for U.S.-Cuba relations.
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February 19, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Fidel Castro—thorn in the side of the U.S. government, icon for many of the impoverished of Latin America—has resigned, leaving Cuba’s immediate fate in the hands of his brother Raul.
See more in Sanctions, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 19, 2008
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Statements
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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.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
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 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.
Complete list of CFR Books.
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