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Save to My PortfolioArtificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United States

Joshua M. Epstein, April 02, 2008, Federal News Radio AM 1050

With the possibility of a national or international emergency, people need to know how to best be prepared. Joshua M. Epstein discusses how agent-based computational modeling has the ability to create artificial societies to model human behavior in an emergency situation. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioSix Years Later: Innovative Approaches to Defeating Al Qaeda

Daniel L. Byman, February 14, 2008, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Six Years Later: Innovative Approaches to Defeating Al QaedaIn testimony before the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Dan Byman states that "to succeed in the long-term, counterterrorism policies must be politically viable for decades." He offers ideas for policy implementations now that can bring consensus and harbor well-informed debate on the issues at hand.  Read More

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Save to My PortfolioCandidate Issue Index: Immigration

Audrey Singer, February 11, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Candidate Issue Index: ImmigrationCompiled by Brookings Institution experts, this chart is part of a series of issue indices being published during the 2008 Presidential election cycle. In this index, candidates' views on immigration, border security, work programs and other aspects of the immigration policy debate are presented. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioState of the Union: Let the Protect America Act Expire

Benjamin Wittes, January 29, 2008

Benjamin Wittes challenges President George Bush’s assertion during the State of the Union address that nation will be more vulnerable to terrorist threats if the Protect America Act is allowed to expire.

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Save to My PortfolioDetention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent?

Benjamin Wittes, December 07, 2007, The New Republic

Detention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent?Detainees held for nearly six years at the Guantanamo Bay military prison recently received another hearing at the Supreme Court.  But neither the justices nor the public should take at face value the insistence that large numbers of innocents populate Guantanamo, writes Benjamin Wittes. The broader debate over Guantanamo has suffered greatly from these overbroad claims of erroneous detentions. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioNational Security at Home and Abroad

Martin S. Indyk, Carlos Pascual and Peter W. Rodman, November 16, 2007

At an Opportunity 08 event co-sponsored by Brookings and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, panelists discussed the challenges the next President will face in restoring American credibility and advancing American interests abroad.

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Save to My PortfolioNational Security at Home and Abroad

Friday, November 16, 2007
Las Vegas, NV

Reuters/Goran TomasevicThe morning after the Democratic presidential candidates debated at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Brookings and UNLV jointly hosted an Opportunity 08 forum titled, “National Security at Home and Abroad” featuring national foreign policy experts and political analysts. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioA Legal Framework for Detaining Terrorists: Enact a Law to End the Clash over Rights

Benjamin Wittes and Mark Gitenstein, November 15, 2007, Opportunity 08

A Legal Framework for Detaining Terrorists: Enact a Law to End the Clash over RightsA 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. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioOpportunity 08

Michael E. O'Hanlon, November 01, 2007

Voters say they want to hear more about issues and less about partisan politics. Opportunity 08 answers the call with authoritative analysis and innovative policy solutions. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioShould There be a "War on Terror"?

Philip H. Gordon, September 24, 2007, The New Republic Online

Parts one and three of a four-part debate between Philip Gordon and Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, about the war on terror. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioHomeland Insecurities: Six Years after 9/11 We're Still Not Thinking Strategically

Daniel L. Byman, September 11, 2007, Slate

Daniel L. Byman argues that a GAO report and other critiques of the Department of Homeland Security miss the broader problem: The U.S. government has not taken a strategic approach toward homeland security. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioFighting the Right War

Philip H. Gordon, September 10, 2007, The Brookings Institution

This week candidates in the 2008 presidential race will all reflect on the events of September 11, 2001 - and on the "war on terror" that we've been fighting ever since. Six years into this fight, are the United States and its allies better off than we were before it started? Sadly, I think the answer is no. While the U.S. homeland has not been attacked successfully since 9/11 - no small accomplishment - major terrorist attacks around the world have doubled compared to the six years prior to 9/11, Osama bin Laden remains at large, the United States is less popular than ever globally, we are bogged down in Iraq with no solution in sight, Iran has been emboldened, and the rest of the Middle East is dangerously unstable. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioExtraordinary Rendition, Extraterritorial Detention, and Treatment of Detainees: Restoring Our Moral Credibility and Strengthening Our Diplomatic Standing

Daniel L. Byman, July 26, 2007, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Testimony by Daniel L. Byman before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (7/26/07) Read More

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Save to My PortfolioAccept Reality When it Comes to Hamas

Stacie L. Pettyjohn, July 2, 2007, The Daily Star (Beirut)

Opinion by Stacie L. Pettyjohn, The Daily Star (7/2/07) Read More

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Save to My PortfolioShaping DHS Doctrine for Operational Success

Brian D. Perkins, July 2007, The Brookings Institution

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Since 9/11, the United States has worked to prevent future attacks by going after terrorist havens abroad, imposing more stringent regulation on who is allowed into the country, inspecting baggage on airliners, and increasing intelligence surveillance. But more remains to be done.

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