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May 15, 2008
| Author: | Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Testimony
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
Essential Documents
Speech
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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
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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May 14, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
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May 14, 2008
Essential Documents
Speech
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October 17, 1980
Essential Documents
Act
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April 2008
| Author: | T.A. Frank |
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Must Read
T.A. Frank looks back on his experience as a factory inspector for a "corporate social responsibility monitoring" firm. He wonders if the Democratic candidates' proposals for tougher labor standards in free trade agreements are enforceable.
See more in Trade
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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.
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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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