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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Political violence in Pakistan is at its highest level in decades, with insurgent attacks on the rise and intensive government clashes with the Taliban in the country’s western provinces. In recent weeks in particular, attacks by Punjabi militant groups have increased dramatically. Bruce Riedel spoke with Newsweek's Andrew Bast and outlined this increasingly precarious situation in Pakistan as well as the prospects for future stability.
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Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
With renewed violence striking Iraq, Ken Pollack writes that the United States is still all that stands between the war-torn country and anarchy. Pollack argues that the United States should use its power and influence within Iraq to ensure that the country does not slide back into civil war.
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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
On May 16, 2009, the Sri Lankan government announced that it had overrun the last insurgent stronghold and that 26 years of civil conflict had finally come to an end. Despite the end of the war, the humanitarian emergency continues. And, as Elizabeth Ferris argues, the underlying causes of the Tamils' demands—whether for autonomy or simply greater respect for their human rights—have yet to be addressed.
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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Massive displacement of people within and across borders has become a defining feature of the post-cold war world. It is also a major feature of human insecurity in which genocide, terrorism, egregious human rights violations and appalling human degradation wreak havoc on civilians. Though there has been a critical shift in thinking at the international level with regards to forced displacement, Cohen and Deng argue that concepts of sovereignty as responsibility and the responsibility to protect remain far ahead of international willingness and capacity to enforce them.
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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:30:00 GMT
Event Information:
- April 20, 2009, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
On April 20, the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement will host a discussion offering different perspectives on the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, moderated by Project co-director Elizabeth Ferris, and including representatives from the United Nations, US Department of State, Human Rights Watch, and the Point Pedro Institute.
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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:11:31 GMT
Ken Pollack describes a new study in which the authors use the results of historical research to fashion a policy for the United States to try to contain civil war in Iraq.
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Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Following the recent U.S. air strike targeting a Somali militant, Vicki Huddleston warns that in order for the U.S. not to lose support of the African and international community "we must consider the costs and the benefits of our actions."
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Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Hady Amr, The Daily Star (9/10/07
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Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Daniel Benjamin before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Armed Services Committee (7/31/07)
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Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack (7/30/07)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Bruce Riedel and Samuel Berger, Financial Times (7/23/07)
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Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Daniel L. Byman before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Armed Services Committee (7/18/07)
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Suzanne Maloney, Steven A. Cook and Ray Takeyh, International Herald Tribune (6/28/07)
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Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Thursday, May 24, was a good day for George W. Bush. After four months of trying stare each other down over the Iraq War, Bush got his way when the Democratically controlled Congress passed a war funding bill without a deadline or timetable to begin the withdrawal of American troops. And at hastily called press conference to celebrate Bush's victory that day, a bird relieved himself on the president's jacket sleeve—a sign, many believe, of good luck.
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Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In the spirit of a unified U.S. security strategy, Carlos Pascual and Larry Diamond offer a framework for near-term congressional action on hearings and appropriations to support a policy toward Iraq that is comprehensive and responsible.
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Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
While the American and Iraqi troops for the so-called surge are nearly all in place, it's far too early to judge the effect. Still, given America's waning patience with the war and the bad circumstances that prevailed in Iraq when the surge began, optimism is hard to come by. Our latest chart of leading indicators, based on American and Iraqi government data and news reports, doesn't brighten the picture much.
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Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Some opponents of the Iraq war are toying with the idea of American defeat. A number of them are simply predicting it, while others advocate measures that would make it more likely. Lending intellectual respectability to all this is an argument that takes a strange comfort from the outcome of the Vietnam War. The defeat of the American enterprise in Indochina, it is said, turned out not to be as bad as expected. The United States recovered, and no lasting price was paid.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
With President George W. Bush’s surge strategy fully implemented, several major offensives are now underway to root out insurgents and improve security conditions. Michael O'Hanlon and Edward Joseph conclude that the only hope for stabilizing Iraq may be a soft partition into Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni regions.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Carlos Pascual and Kenneth M. Pollack, The Washington Quarterly (Summer 2007)
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Preventing spillover of the Iraqi conflict into neighboring states must be a top priority. In explaining how that can be accomplished, Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack draw on their own considerable expertise as well as relevant precedents.
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Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Peter W. Rodman, NPR (5/24/07)
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Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Carlos Pascual, Radio Times (5/14/07)
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Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (5/11/07)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack, The National Interest (May-June 2007)
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Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (4/24/07)
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Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (3/29/07)
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Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Carlos Pascual, The Washington Post (3/27/07)
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Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Michael E. O'Hanlon (3/19/07)
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Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Bruce Riedel, Washingtonpost.com (3/9/07)
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Wall Street Journal (3/1/07)
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Philip H. Gordon, E!Sharp (March-April 2007)
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
As the latest National Intelligence Estimate shows, Iraq is a failed state ensnared in a civil war. For the United States, the stakes in Iraq include humanitarian considerations (already, two million refugees have fled Iraq, and another 1.6 million have been displaced internally), regional risks to peace, and global consequences affecting oil supplies and nuclear proliferation.
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Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (2/24/07)
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Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Martin S. Indyk, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2/15/07)
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Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Daniel L. Byman, Salon (2/8/07)
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Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Carlos Pascual, Bloggingheads.tv (2/2/07)
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Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Kenneth M. Pollack, Council on Foreign Relations (1/30/07)
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Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Peter W. Singer, Defense News (1/29/07)
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Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:30:00 GMT
Event Information:
- January 29, 2007, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings unveiled a new report, "Things Fall Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War," by Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack. This policy paper examines the history of some dozen recent civil wars to reveal the general patterns by which such conflicts can "spill over" into neighboring states, causing further civil wars or regional conflicts.
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Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Carlos Pascual and Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (1/21/07)
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Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Post (1/14/07)
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Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Kenneth M. Pollack (1/11/07)
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Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Martin S. Indyk (1/11/07)
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Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon and Edward P. Joseph, The Washington Times (1/8/07)
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Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Kenneth M. Pollack and Daniel L. Byman propose a set of policy options that the United States could employ to try to contain the "spill over" effects of a full-scale Iraqi civil war.
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Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT
Event Information:
- December 21, 2006, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
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Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Nina Kamp and Michael E. O'Hanlon, The New York Times (12/20/06)
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Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
From Sierra Leone to Tajikistan and Indonesia's Aceh Province, civil war has erupted in countries suffering from persistent poverty or sharp economic decline, further crippling fragile economies, depleting resources and claiming millions of innocent
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Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Kenneth M. Pollack, The New York Times (12/8/06)
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Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder, TPM Caf� (12/8/06)
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Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Times (12/8/06)
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Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Carlos Pascual and Kenneth M. Pollack, Financial Times (12/6/06)
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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Kenneth M. Pollack and Daniel L. Byman, Berlin Journal (Fall 2006)
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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Internet Chat with Daniel L. Byman, Washingtonpost.com (8/21/06)
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Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Kenneth M. Pollack and Daniel L. Byman, The Washington Post (8/20/06)
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Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. Ohanlon and Stephen J. Solarz, The Washington Post (8/13/06)
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Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Daniel L. Byman, Slate (6/8/06)
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Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Washington Post (3/27/06)
Administration officials have been right in recent weeks to argue that there is no large-scale civil war underway in Iraq. As long as the Iraqi political leadership remains generally united in trying to calm the situation, and as long as sectarian violence remains more sporadic than strategic (with no systematic ethnic cleansing, for example), true civil war remains a threat rather than a reality. But as President Bush himself recognized in his March 13 speech on Iraq, whoever attacked the Golden Mosque in Samarra on Feb. 22 was trying to spark a civil war. Yesterday's gruesome events, including the discovery of 30 beheaded bodies near Baqubah, heavy fighting in parts of Baghdad and the firing of fatal mortar rounds at Moqtada al-Sadr's compound in Najaf, suggest that such attempts will likely continue.
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Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Shibley Telhami, Baltimore Sun (3/27/06)
As the prospects of civil war in Iraq increase, explanations have focused on the particularities of Iraq's society or the poor U.S. planning. That these are important factors one can hardly deny. But they mask a more troubling reality: Even with the best American planning and Iraqi intentions, preventing civil conflict in Iraq would have been an uphill battle.
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Sudan is a nation whose identity has been divisively distorted but which is now striving to rediscover itself, albeit in a tragically violent way. The silver lining, Francis Deng argues, is that a more constructive search for an identity framework around which Sudanese could unite may be within reach.
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Daniel Byman, foreignpolicy.com (3/1/05)
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Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Francis Deng argues that the rebellion in Darfur cannot be viewed in isolation from events elsewhere in Sudan.
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Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Postscript by Peter W. Singer and Anja Manuel, Foreign Affairs (9/22/04)
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Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Article by P.W. Singer, Olin Fellow, the Brookings Institution, and Anja Manuel, Attorney, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, in Foreign Affairs, July/August 2002
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Sun, 09 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Risk of a Palestinian Civil War, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 9, 2001, Opinion by Shibley Telhami, foreign-policy, The Brookings Institution