RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel L. Byman, February 14, 2008, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
In 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Audrey Singer, February 11, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Compiled 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
VIDEO
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.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Benjamin Wittes, December 07, 2007, The New Republic
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
VIDEO
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.
PAST EVENT
Friday, November 16, 2007
Las Vegas, NV
The 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Benjamin Wittes and Mark Gitenstein, November 15, 2007, Opportunity 08
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. Read More
BOOK
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Stacie L. Pettyjohn, July 2, 2007, The Daily Star (Beirut)
Opinion by Stacie L. Pettyjohn, The Daily Star (7/2/07) Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Brian D. Perkins, July 2007, The Brookings Institution
Paper by Brian Perkins (July 2007) Read More