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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The key feature of President Obama's speech on September 22 at the Clinton Global Initiative was a call for a new spirit of global partnership, with respect to aiding the world's poor and countering transnational treats. Noam Unger discusses steps the U.S. government could take to advance global development efforts.
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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:30:50 GMT
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- September 18, 2009, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
World leaders are now in New York as the United Nations General Assembly opens its 64th session. Last week, Brookings hosted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a speech previewing the U.S. agenda for the assembly, including addressing Iran, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change, and the Middle East peace process.
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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Following State Hillary Clinton's visit to Nigeria at the end of her 11-day tour of African nations, Richard Joseph says that Nigeria has a historic opportunity to address its myriad problems. "Nigeria and the United States," Joseph writes, "could initiate a new era of cooperation based on shared commitments to constitutional democracy, the strengthening of open, multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies and laying the foundations for sustainable and equitable growth."
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Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:44:47 GMT
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 11-day visit to select African nations wraps up this week, her longest overseas mission as America's top diplomat. Ernest Aryeetey says African nations view Secretary Clinton’s trip so early in her term as a smart move, adding her visit instills a sense of optimism about U.S.-Africa relations.
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Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Although the Obama administration faces serious challenges at home and abroad, Homi Kharas, Johannes Linn and Noam Unger call for greater attention to the world's poor. The experts provide recommendations on how the Obama administration can begin to improve America's critical role in global development.
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Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the first visit to India by a top Obama administration official, engaged her hosts on two major issues facing the world: nuclear non-proliferation and climate change. Brookings President Strobe Talbott writes that Indians, like many Americans, still need to be persuaded to see the urgency of prompt action on these two issues.
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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
President Obama has proposed expanding the Peace Corps and building a global network of volunteers. To achieve this goal, David Caprara, Kevin F. F. Quigley and Lex Rieffel examine alternative service models and offer policy recommendations to the Obama Administration to further enhance U.S. volunteer opportunities with the goal of strengthening America’s multilateral development engagements.
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Wed, 27 May 2009 10:30:00 GMT
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- May 27, 2009, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
On May 27, the Brookings Institution hosted former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric S. Edelman for a discussion of the book, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (Knopf), written by the late Peter W. Rodman, a Brookings senior fellow.
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Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As the Obama administration and Congress work to reform an outdated foreign assistance system, they have an opportunity to adapt official U.S. efforts to more effectively and efficiently support global development in partnership with businesses and civil society. Jane Nelson and Noam Unger recommend ways the U.S. government can better position itself within the 21st century global development ecosystem.
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Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Critical stabilization and reconstruction missions abroad must not only be viewed through the lenses of short-term goals or military operations, but as a key step in supporting sustainable economic development. In a workshop report, Noam Unger and Frederick Barton explore ways to rebalance American statecraft by strengthening civilian stabilization and development capacity within the U.S. government.
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Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In the Obama administration, special envoys are likely to play a central role in U.S. foreign policy. But Michael Fullilove notes the president should remember that envoys are not the creators of policy, but rather its instruments.
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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Vicki Huddleston and Carlos Pascual argue that if President Obama wishes to alter U.S. policy toward Cuba, he has ample authority to do so. Huddleston and Pascual examine Obama's executive authority and note there is no reason the U.S. cannot reach out to the Cuban people and still retain the embargo as a symbol of concern about their government's failure to live up to international norms and human rights.
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Though the success of President Obama’s foreign policy will depend on the cooperation of foreign nations, global public opinion is not on America’s side. Kristin Lord explores how American public diplomacy should better tap into and mobilize private actors to employ technology, media, and private sector expertise.
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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Vice President Joseph Biden made headlines by proclaiming the Obama administration’s intention to "press the reset button” in U.S.-Russian relations. While some world capitals are concerned that Russia is cracking down at home and throwing its weight around abroad, Strobe Talbott explains that the Russians have provided an opening for renewed diplomacy and that the United States and its partners should encourage them to integrate into a globalized world.
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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Shih-chung Liu writes at the onset of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Asia that when she arrives in Beijing on the last stop of her journey, she should bring a commitment from Washington to the symmetry of cross-strait relations between China and Taiwan.
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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first overseas trip will include a visit to Indonesia. Lex Rieffel explains how engagement with Indonesia will be key to U.S. relations with Asia.
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Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
President Obama may enjoy a transatlantic honeymoon, but U.S.-European differences over Middle East policy—stemming mainly from the war in Iraq—leave deep scars in the relationship that he must now overcome. In a new Saban Center Analysis Paper, Tamara Cofman Wittes and Richard Youngs look beyond this highly charged deterioration in the transatlantic relationship in order to assess the real prospects for cooperation in promoting democracy in the Middle East.
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has once again received international attention following November’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and there are reports that the Obama administration plans to appoint a special envoy for the region. However, as Dhruva Jaishankar and Anit Mukherjee explain, renewed U.S. engagement on Kashmir—especially if it were led by a high-profile envoy—is likely to prove counterproductive, a setback for U.S. foreign policy, for the India-Pakistan peace process and, ironically, for Kashmir itself.
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Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
CNAPS Director Richard Bush argues that American soft power in East Asia is diminished but not exhausted. Our postwar record, the goodwill of friends in the region and the special character of the 2008 presidential election create a basis on which to restore it. This is a strategic opportunity that should not be missed, says Bush.
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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Carlos Pascual analyzes the imprecise science of peace-building and what it means to failed or near-failed states. Pascual outlines the stages of progress needed to increase the chances of sustainable peace and explores ten key steps to meet the challenges of stabilization and reconstruction.
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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
As Barack Obama prepares to take office, Central America is falling off the radar among the many accumulated problems to address, domestic and international. Abraham Lowenthal examines four Central American countries and compares their changes and growth. He recommends modest investments in the region for the new Obama administration.
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Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Growing tensions between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed countries, threaten to escalate into a direct military confrontation. Vanda Felbab-Brown notes that, especially after the Mumbai attacks, the world is looking to Obama for leadership in reversing dangerous trends and building a security framework in a vital region.
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
William Galston examines what’s wrong with our current political institutions, given the current financial crisis and lack of coherent governance, and proposes how to create a better government.
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:00:00 GMT
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- December 18, 2008, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Seven years after the 9/11 attacks, the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan remains the front line in the war on terror. On December 18, Brookings Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown offered a public memo to President-elect Obama with recommendations to expand an agenda of peace and stability to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Riedel and Gary Samore write that attempts to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed. They offer suggestions to the incoming Obama administration on how to move forward with a new approach to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.
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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
America cannot afford to retreat from the fight against global poverty in a world where remote challenges can rapidly metastasize into global threats. Instead the United States must demonstrate renewed leadership and showcase its national spirit by investing wisely through more effective global development cooperation.
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Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT
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- December 10, 2008, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
The fight against global poverty has become a fight for global security. But after an awkward entrance into the 21st century, America must redefine its role in the world, including its relations with developing countries. Colin Bradford offered a public memo to the president-elect with recommendations how to modernize U.S. aid efforts and address the global development challenges of the new century effectively and with accountability.
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Carlos Pascual writes that President-elect Obama’s choice of a national security team reflects seriousness, pragmatism and bipartisanship. Pascual believes the selections indicate Obama will take a twenty-first-century view toward national security: energy, power, economics, human rights, terrorism and poverty must be part of the agenda.
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Martin Indyk and Richard Haass note that President-elect Obama will face a series of critical, complex, and interrelated challenges in the Middle East that will demand his immediate attention: an Iran apparently intent on approaching or crossing the nuclear threshold as quickly as possible; a fragile situation in Iraq that is straining the U.S. military; weak governments in Lebanon and Palestine under challenge from stronger Hezbollah and Hamas militant organizations; a faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace process; and American influence diluted by a severely damaged reputation.
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The Obama administration may be tempted to take the easy way out by offering merely new rhetoric and modest refinements to the carrot-and stick approach that has failed its five predecessors. Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh believe this would be a mistake. Today, to deal effectively with a rising Iran, the United States must embark on a far deeper reevaluation of its strategy and launch a comprehensive diplomatic initiative to attempt to engage its most enduring Middle Eastern foe.
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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Drawing on extensive research, approximately 300 interviews and the advice of a distinguished board of ten advisers, Kristin Lord presents a vision for U.S. public diplomacy in the twenty-first century. Lord provides a detailed blueprint for a new non-profit organization, the USA World Trust, as part of a comprehensive public diplomacy strategy.
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Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
With the opportunity of a new U.S. administration and Congress, Brookings’s Partnership for the Americas Commission released its final report noting the need for a new hemispheric partnership to address key transnational challenges and providing specific policy recommendations on five key areas: energy and climate change, migration, trade, organized crime and drug trafficking and U.S.-Cuban relations.
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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
American and global leaders face a choice: they can either use this moment to help shape an international, rule-based order that will protect their global interests, or resign themselves to an ad hoc international system where they are increasingly powerless to shape the course of international affairs. The longer the delay in new approaches and new cooperation against today’s threats, the more difficult the challenges will become. Global leaders must chart a shared path forward that marries power and responsibility to achieve together what cannot be achieved apart: peace and security in a transnational world.
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Daniel Byman examines whether the outbreak of an insurgency after the U.S. invasion of Iraq was an avoidable policy failure or whether the structural conditions surrounding the occupation made such an outbreak inevitable.
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Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Kristin Lord says the next administration must change the face of U.S. public diplomacy. Lord argues that putting the military, not civilians, at the forefront of U.S. global communications undercuts the likelihood of success, distorts priorities, and undermines the effectiveness of U.S. civilian agencies.
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Terrorism is a real and urgent threat to the U.S. and its interests; a threat that could become far more dangerous if terrorists acquire nuclear or biological weapons. Daniel Benjamin explores the drawbacks of using military force in combating terrorism and elaborates on the need for a positive agenda for the Muslim world -- one that deepens U.S. engagement in Muslim nations as they seek to modernize.
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The next president will have an opportunity to make the elimination of all nuclear weapons and organizing principle of U.S. nuclear policy. It will take a real commitment, at the highest levels and beginning with the United States, to turn what Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal call the “logic of zero” into a practical reality.
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As President-Elect Obama prepares to lead the United States, what are the top global economic challenges facing the new president and his advisors and how should the new administration address them? A new report by Brookings global economic and development experts ranks the top 10 issues and details specific ideas for how to tackle the toughest challenges.
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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Suzanne Maloney writes about diplomatic options for the next administration in dealing with Iran. Maloney offers ideas on how Iran may respond to new U.S. initiatives by exploring previous cases of dialogue, and she concludes by presenting a sense of how Tehran views talking with Washington.
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Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
On the seventh anniversary of September 11, Lael Brainard and Noam Unger examine how the global development agenda has changed and how the U.S. can take critical steps to lead on efforts to reduce global poverty.
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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Global warming—among the most complex economic, political and diplomatic challenges of our time—has become a central focus of the presidential campaign, with both candidates supporting the creation of a cap-and-trade system that would limit national emissions. Strobe Talbott and Carlos Pascual argue that the U.S. must take the lead now in facing the annual buildup in greenhouse gas emissions that threatens global catastrophe.
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
For years, global poverty eradication and climate change mitigation have been two prominent but separate struggles yet in order to solve both challenges, policymakers will need to consider linked issues across both fields and understand how solutions for one might affect the other. In a new paper for the 2008 Brookings Blum Roundtable, Lael Brainard and Nigel Purvis examine the issues facing climate change and global development and offer recommendations for how to address the urgency of both policy imperatives.
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Kristin Lord examines public opinion relevant to the transatlantic relationship; transatlantic opinion regarding terrorism, climate change, and international trade; and public diplomacy and how it might advance the transatlantic agenda.
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Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings experts Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack, writing with Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations, argue that the situation in Iraq is improving. They believe that with the right strategy, the United States will eventually be able to draw down troops in the country without sacrificing stability.
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Lost in discussions of the military surge, the pace of troop drawdowns, and political benchmarks are millions of displaced Iraqis. Their plight is both a humanitarian tragedy and a strategic crisis that is not being addressed.
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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Aid volatility, caused by various reasons including shifts in the donor’s economic and political landscape, can negatively affect development growth. Homi Kharas measures the cost of aid volatility using a financial metric, which if used by policymakers, can create a better system of aid flows and effective development. At times, recipient countries can incur negative income shocks, and Kharas calculates that in recent years about 16 billion USD in development assistance has been lost to aid volatility.
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Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Climate change may be the key obstacle in preventing China from reaching equivalent living standards with the Western world. Warwick McKibbin, Peter Wilcoxen, and Wing Thye Woo analyze the future of international climate change agreements and offer recommendations on how to engage China, continue growth and establish an effective framework.
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Riedel notes that Pakistan almost uniquely is both a major victim of terrorism and a major sponsor of terrorism. It has been the scene of horrific terrorist acts it has been one of the most prolific state sponsors of terror. Riedel believes there is no issue or country more critical to get right under the next U.S. president, which means developing a policy that will move Pakistan away from being a hotbed of terror.
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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Lael Brainard and Noam Unger discuss how the global food crisis showcases America’s limited current capability to respond effectively to global development challenges, and argue that the U.S. must modernize its foreign aid system in order to effectively offer solutions to poverty and lead internationally.
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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:15:00 GMT
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- June 09, 2008, 8:15 AM to 6:00 PM
On June 9, 2008, Brookings convened more than 70 stakeholders for a conference on “Climate Change, Trade and Competitiveness.” The conference was led by Lael Brainard and focused on how climate change presents a new set of challenges for the world trading system and potential strategies to mitigate future conflicts.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The next American president will inherit an overseas military base realignment process guided by an effort known as the Global Posture Review. As Michael O'Hanlon argues, a successful outcome will depend on the next U.S. administration refining the current plan—and redefining the broader national security policy context in which base realignment will be viewed.
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Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The current United States approach to state sponsorship of terrorism is flawed, writes Daniel Byman. He suggests that instead of simply managing a list of state sponsors, Washington needs to recognize the complexity of sponsorship, monitor states using a broad definition of what constitutes state sponsorship, and use diplomatic pressure as well as political and economic penalties when needed.
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Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Verbal battles, turf fights, and policy arguments between Secretaries of State and Secretaries of Defense are commonplace in American history. Ron Nessen comments on how complimentary Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the Brookings Trustees dinner in stark contrast to previous snarky relationships between Secretaries of Defense and Secretaries of State.
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Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Pakistan, as the most dangerous country in the world, poses a major challenge for the next U.S. president. Bruce Riedel argues in this new Opportunity 08 paper that the current administration’s policy toward Pakistan has not paid off. The next president, he says, must persuade the Pakistani people that "America supports democracy in their country and can be a long-term and reliable ally."
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Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Fragile states are both a cause and manifestation of a breakdown in international order, and civil violence often ends up crossing borders. The Managing Global Insecurity project examines new challenges to regional and international security and offers suggestions for dealing with them.
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Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
No state, however powerful, can defend itself unilaterally against transnational terrorism, and the most dangerous forms -- nuclear and biological weapons -- require extensive cooperation. The Managing Global Insecurity project offers recommendations for dealing with this threat.
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Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Daniel Byman believes the U.S. Department of State’s list of state sponsors of terrorism needs to be overhauled and updated. He notes that many of the most threatening states are those that are passive or nonaggressive, and that the costs of inaction often harm the sponsor as well as other states.
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As the world faces security threats from impoverished states, the global community searches for solutions to poverty. Lael Brainard offers Congress recommendations for modernizing the U.S. aid infrastructure.
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Omer Taspinar notes that Turkey is again going through a difficult time internally and externally. Once declared a model of the Islamic World by the U.S., the country now finds itself trying to "find a balance between Islam, secularism and Western identity," which has recently seemed totally elusive.
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Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Essential to the careers of many U.S. Foreign Service Officers, public affairs staff and officers of AID is an understanding of international human rights issues. Many if not all will be posted to countries with questionable human rights records. Therefore, the subject of integrating human rights concerns on into U.S. foreign policy decision-making, argues Brookings expert Roberta Cohen, is not just an academic exercise but a real and serious business that will involve everyone posted abroad.
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Carlos Pascual joins Kojo Nnamdi and guests to explore the difficulties confronting the United States' diplomatic corps in a time of evolving international challenges.
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Five years into the Iraq War, Bruce Riedel provides an interim report on the winners and losers to date. He writes that one of the biggest losers, despite the troop surge, is the United States. Riedel concludes by noting the next president "will face a monumental challenge of how to find a way to end a war we never needed to fight but whose legacy will haunt Americans for decades to come."
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Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In the 21st century, spreading global public understanding of America’s institutions, culture and political values is as important as the work of traditional diplomats, writes William Galston. Galston proposes creating a Cabinet-level agency with the mission to make the case for America as a force for peace, prosperity and political reform.
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Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Dmitri Medvedev—Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked successor—won Russia's recent presidential election. Clifford Gaddy, senior fellow and a Russia expert at Brookings, examines the future for Russia by analyzing “Putin’s Plan” for continuity of policy and what it means for international and domestic relations, and the economy.
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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The Index of State Weakness in the Developing World provides policy-makers and researchers with a credible tool for analyzing and understanding the world's most vulnerable countries. Co-directed by Brookings Senior Fellow Susan Rice and Center for Global Development Research Fellow Stewart Patrick, the Index ranks and assesses 141 developing nations according to their relative performance in four critical spheres: economic, political, security and social welfare.
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Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Michael O'Hanlon and Thomas Lynch argue that a nationwide network and civic military-to-civilian jobs programs are needed and that they will send a powerful message that the playing field is level for those who serve in the U.S. military.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In a world facing 21st century threats from global poverty, pandemics, and terrorism, foreign aid has assumed renewed importance as a critical instrument for advancing American values, interests, and national security. Lael Brainard offers Congress recommendations for urgent reform since U.S. foreign aid policy has become incoherent and its implementation fragmented.
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Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Strobe Talbott says the next president will face the most dangerous and complex challenges ever for a new administration, especially with nuclear proliferation and climate change. He or she will need to move quickly and dramatically to demonstrate that respect for international law, treaties and organizations is firmly reinstated as part of the bedrock of American foreign policy.
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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh argue that in order to come to an understanding with Iran, the United States must open dialogue with the country instead of forcing a military confrontation.
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Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Philip Gordon states that six years after the start of the U.S. led war on terror, America and its allies are less safe. He discusses how and where the U.S. has failed in its objectives and offers ideas to help move the war in the right direction.
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Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A core challenge facing the next president in the war on terror is developing a legal framework for detaining terrorists. Brookings’s experts Benjamin Wittes and Mark Gitenstein offer recommendations that balance basic protections for detainees with regularized judicial review.
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Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Phil Gordon discusses U.S. strategies for combating the War on Terrorism. Ultimately, Gordon believes the War on Terror can only be won through a dramatic change in idealogy that embraces mulilaterialism, and promotes political, economic, and educational changes in the Middle East.
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Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT
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- October 22, 2007, 2:00 PM to 05:30 PM
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution, in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (CAREC) held an international conference on "Integrating Central Asia into the World Economy: The Role of Energy and Transport Infrastructure."
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ivo H. Daalder and James Lindsay, Democracy Journal (Fall 2007)
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Carlos Pascual argues that a serious and calibrated United Nations role in Iraq is both justified and necessary, even if success cannot be guaranteed. "Iraq is not just an American problem - and there are no viable American unilateral solutions."
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Noam Unger, InterAction's Monday Developments (July 2007)
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Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Justin Vaisse explores the concept of transformational diplomacy, coined by Condoleezza Rice in early 2006, as a way to respond to new threats facing the U.S. and world. Vaisse offers ways in which transformational diplomacy can be used to promote the interests of those involved.
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Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Lael Brainard before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (6/12/07)
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Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The Marshall Plan was America's first full-blown foray into the enterprise of development and a turning point for our engagement in foreign lands. Sixty years later, what are the lessons we can draw to reinvigorate our foreign assistance mission and programs to mitigate global challenges while sharing America's spirit of goodwill and generosity?
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Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The United States needs to achieve a better geopolitical and psychological balance—some deflation of the Iranians’ self-confidence and bolstering of our friends’ confidence in us. Peter Rodman suggests policies that the next president should adopt to achieve this balance.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A new Sunni-Shi'a fault line and a significant decline in U.S. influence frame the challenge to the next President's Middle East policy. That challenge requires both a return to balance-of-power diplomacy and a better balancing of interests and values to contain the Iraq civil war, strengthen the forces of moderation, prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, and promote democratic reform.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
China’s growth in economic and military power has presented both challenges and opportunities to U.S.-China relations and to the global economy. In an Opportunity 08 paper, Lael Brainard and Wing Thye Woo examine five elements to a successful approach to trade with China.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The next President should embrace the strategy of engagement initiated by President Nixon and sustained by all his successors to date. Presidential candidates should avoid tendentious condemnations of China and instead signal their intention to develop a personal relationship of trust with their Chinese counterpart soon after taking office.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
North Korea has just marked the first anniversary of its nuclear test, calling it a "great miracle." To address this and other threats, Stephen Cohen and Michael O'Hanlon argue that the next President should enhance adherence to international non-proliferation agreements; expand threat reduction efforts; and place less emphasis on the role of nuclear arms in protecting America.
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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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Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion paper by Michael Kremer and Seema Jayachandran, washingtonpost.com, February 7, 2007
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Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
For the next President, effective leadership abroad will depend largely on marshalling bipartisan support for foreign policy at home. Combating terrorism, constricting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, reducing global poverty, promoting an efficient, equitable world trading system, and reversing the process of climate change are all issues that require far more effective diplomacy and skillful management of U.S. domestic politics.
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Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Editorial by David Caprara in the Washington Post, advocating volunteerism as effective public diplomacy.
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Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
With hard power assets stretched thin and confronting unprecedented global challenges of transnational threats, poverty, and pandemics, America must reform its weak aid infrastructure to leverage its soft power more effectively. Lael Brainard discusses how reform requires integrating the national security perspective of foreign assistance as a “soft power” tool intended to achieve diplomatic and strategic ends with that of a “development tool” allocated according to policy effectiveness and human needs.
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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Philip H. Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro, Financial Times (8/21/06)
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Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Lael Brainard Opinion
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Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT
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- June 13, 2006, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
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Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Carlos Pascual, Joint Force Quarterly (Summer 2006)
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Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Lael Brainard, Carol Lancaster, and William Reese, The Kojo Nnamdi Show (1/30/06)
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Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder, NRC Handelsblad (1/17/06)
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Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Susan E. Rice and Stewart Patrick, Knight Ridder (11/22/05)
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Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Susan E. Rice and Corrine Graff; McGill International Review 6 (Fall 2005)
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Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder, The Center for American Progress (3/15/05)
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ivo H. Daalder and James Lindsay, Boston Review (3/1/05)
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
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- January 27, 2005 at 12:00 AM