• Iran at Saban

  What is Iran's Nuclear Red Line?

  Steven Pifer | May 21, 2013 2:05pm

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  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected soon to issue a report stating that Iran has increased its capacity to enrich uranium but is limiting the most worrisome activity.  This raises the question of how far Iran wishes to proceed down the nuclear path.  The answer is important, as there is an important distinction between an Iran that has assembled (and perhaps tested) a nuclear weapon, and an Iran that has a latent nuclear capability but does not take the final step of pulling the pieces together to have a nuclear weapon.  Read More

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• Up Front

  Barack Obama and China's Xi Jinping to Meet In California

  Richard C. Bush III | May 21, 2013 11:37am

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  The White House announced this week that President Obama will meet with China’s President Xi Jinping in June. Richard Bush discusses the significance of this meeting, and the importance of establishing a good personal relationship between the two leaders.  Read More

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• Iran at Saban

  America and Iran: Wrestling with Ghosts

  Suzanne Maloney | May 20, 2013 8:56pm

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  One of the very few feel-good stories in the recent history of U.S.-Iranian relations came to an unexpectedly abrupt end last week, when Iranian authorities cut short a series of wrestling exhibition matches in the United States.

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• Iran at Saban

  Why Iran's Presidential Election Matters

  Suzanne Maloney | May 20, 2013 12:26pm

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  In conversations with policymakers, journalists and analysts about the upcoming Iranian presidential elections, one simple question looms: does it even matter? Iran is, after all, an Islamic theocracy, a state in which the supreme leader is the ultimate decision-maker and elections are heavily stage-managed from start to finish. The president’s powers are explicitly limited, and whatever sense of electoral unpredictability that may have characterized Iran in the past— for example, in 1997, when a reformist cleric upset the heavily-favored front-runner— appeared to have ended with the contested 2009 reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  Read More

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• Education Plus Development

  Post-2015 Focus on Sustainable Development: How Education and Learning Can Play a Role

  Allison Anderson | May 20, 2013 10:12am

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  Allison Anderson argues that the role of education and equitable learning in achieving sustainable development needs to figure prominently in post-2015 discussions.  Read More

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• Iran at Saban

  Welcome to Iran @ Saban

  Suzanne Maloney | May 20, 2013 8:30am

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  Welcome to Iran @ Saban, a new blog featuring commentary and analysis on the array of issues related to Iran by scholars at the Brookings Institution. It takes only a quick scan of the headlines each day to appreciate the significance of Iran to American national interests and international security, and the variety and complexity of the issues and actors at stake. Through an intense focus on all things Iran, we hope to  advance a better understanding of the internal dynamics of the Islamic Republic and promote effective international strategies for dealing with the challenges its policies pose. 

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• Up Front

  Premier Li Keqiang of China Goes to India

  Tanvi Madan | May 18, 2013 2:00pm

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  This week Chinese premier Li Keqiang heads out from Beijing to India for his first visit abroad in that role. Tanvi Madan examines the current state of Chinese-Indian relations and what will be discussed during the visit.  Read More

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• Up Front

  The African Union Can Do More to Support Regional Integration

  Michael Rettig, Anne W. Kamau and Augustus Sammy Muluvi | May 17, 2013 4:39pm

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  During the World Economic Forum on Africa, held in early May, economists reaffirmed that regional integration will play a key role in promoting the continent's growth potential. Michael Rettig, Anne W. Kamau and Augustus Sammy Muluvi argue that the African Union must balance its successes in minimizing African conflict with the importance of doing more to achieve this growth and promote economic integration.  Read More

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• The Avenue

  Widening the Panama Canal and the Future of Global Trade Mapping

  Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane | May 17, 2013 4:25pm

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  Up and down the Atlantic coast, US ports are abuzz. Dredging machines, tunnel excavators, and highway pavers from Miami to New York are preparing metropolitan economies and their ports for a newly expanded Panama Canal. As the thinking goes, an expanded Canal promises bigger ships, bigger cargo loads--and each metro wants a piece of the bigger business.
  
  But lost in this port-related arms race is what the newly-widened Panama Canal means for the US economy . Too many metropolitan areas simply assume they’ll immediately acquire new freight business when the expanded Canal opens, or that there will be more business at all. These billion-dollar assumptions ignore a more fundamental question: how and where will the Panama Canal affect US’ global goods trade?  Read More

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• Education Plus Development

  Crafting an Education Goal in the Post-2015 Development Framework: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too

  Luis Crouch, Jenny Perlman Robinson and Lauren Greubel | May 17, 2013 3:54pm

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  Luis Crouch, Jenny Perlman Robinson and Lauren Greubel argue that the education community must realize the need to craft education goals that are practical, measurable, and facilitate a goal-seeking rather than goal-setting process in the post-2015 development framework.  Read More

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