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May 2, 2008
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A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and The Economist.
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March 8, 2008
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March 19, 2008
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March 2008
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March 18, 2008
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain published this op-ed on March 18, 2008 in the Financial Times newspaper.
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Updated: January 25, 2008
| Author: | Toni Johnson, Staff Writer |
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G8 members offer a mixed picture on meeting Kyoto Protocol targets. The United States continues to refuse ratification.
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January/February 2008
| Author: | Ronald D. Asmus |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Rethinking NATO and European Union enlargement
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December 13, 2007
| Speaker: | Giorgio Napolitano, President, Italian Republic |
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| Presider: | Richard Gardner, Senior Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1977-81) |
Transcript
President of Italian Republic discusses foreign policy issues in Italy, Europe, and the United States.
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2007
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Strategy Paper
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December 7, 2007
| Authors: | Simon Bulmer Roderick Parkes |
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In an article published by Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Simon Bulmer and Roderick Parkes evaluate the prospects for a new bilateralism in EU Affairs.
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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.
Iraq War (5/3): Max Boot argues that the increase in casualties could be a sign that tough combat is under way that will lead to the enemy’s defeat, in the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. Economy (5/2): Amity Shlaes criticizes Hillary Clinton’s plan to implement a windfall oil tax, on Bloomberg.com.
Food Crisis (5/1): Gene Sperling warns that one of the casualties of the food crisis will be the schooling of the world’s poorest children, on Bloomberg.com.
Three-Front War (4/30): Michael Gerson argues that a decent outcome in Iraq would be considerably devalued if counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan stall, 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.
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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.
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