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Updated: February 19, 2008
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Daily Analysis
Political land mines loom beyond Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia.
See more in Kosovo, Serbia, Nation Building
January 22, 2007
Kurt Volker interviewed by Robert McMahon, Deputy Editor
Interview
A top U.S. State Department official says Washington wants the alliance to beat back the Taliban’s resurgence.
See more in Afghanistan, Civil Reconstruction, Conflict Assessment
May 4, 2006
Daily Analysis
The European Union scolds Serbia for its inability—some would say refusal—to hand over Ratko Mladic, the disgraced Bosnian Serb military leader and indicted war criminal who has eluded capture for over a decade.
See more in Yugoslavia : Serbia, International Crime, International Law
updated: March 14, 2006
Daily Analysis
The death of Slobodan Milosevic ends a trial some had hoped would usher in a new era of international justice.
See more in International Law
November/December 2005
| Author: | Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow for Europe Studies |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Given the atrocities they have suffered in the past and the autonomy they are enjoying now, Kosovo's Albanians will never accept continued Serbian sovereignty. The time has come to give them what they want -- independence.
July 7, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
See more in Bosnia/Herzegovina, International Law
June 30, 2005
News Release
See more in Kosovo, Peacekeeping
June 2005
| Authors: | William L. Nash, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Military Fellows Program Amelia Branczik |
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Council Special Report No. 8
Council Special Report
This report identifies the principal steps that the United States can take to secure the investment it has made in the western Balkans and facilitate the region’s progress toward its rightful destiny within the EU. In doing so, Forgotten Intervention? lays out a straightforward and doable strategy for the United States that will pay dividends.
May 6, 2005
| Author: | Lionel Beehner |
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Backgrounder
See more in Russian Fed.
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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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