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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century

Michael E. O'Hanlon, June 2008, Center for a New American Security

U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st CenturyThe 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. Read More

Defense, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, U.S. Military

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Save to My PortfolioThe Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism

Daniel L. Byman, May 2008, Saban Center Analysis Paper

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. Read More

Terrorism, Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia

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Save to My PortfolioRare Event: A Defense Secretary Says Something Nice About a Secretary of State

Ron Nessen, May 21, 2008, The Brookings Institution

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. Read More

Defense, U.S. Politics, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. State Department

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Save to My PortfolioListing our Terror Problems

Daniel L. Byman, May 02, 2008, The National Interest Online

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Foreign Assistance: Advancing National Security, Interests, and Values

Lael Brainard, April 23, 2008, House Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Policy and Turkey: Lost in Translation

Omer Taspinar, April 14, 2008, Today's Zaman

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Save to My PortfolioThe Future of the Foreign Service

Carlos Pascual, March 31, 2008, The Kojo Nnamdi Show

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Save to My PortfolioCreating a New Public Diplomacy Cabinet Post

William A. Galston, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8

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Save to My PortfolioIraq: Winners and Losers at Five Years

Bruce Riedel, March 20, 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioBenefits of Hiring Young Veterans

Thomas Lynch and Michael E. O'Hanlon, February 17, 2008, The Washington Times

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Foreign Assistance: Reinventing Aid for the 21st Century

Lael Brainard, January 23, 2008, House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs

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Save to My PortfolioTime to Start Talking to Tehran

Suzanne Maloney and Ray Takeyh, December 19, 2007, Newsweek

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Save to My PortfolioIntegrating Central Asia into the World Economy: Perspectives from the Region and from the U.S.

Monday, October 22, 2007
2:00 PM to 05:30 PM
Washington, DC

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Save to My PortfolioRestore Trust in America's Leadership

Ivo H. Daalder and James Lindsay, Fall 2007, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioForeign Assistance Reform: Then, Now and Around the Bend

Noam Unger, July 2007, InterAction's Monday Developments

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Save to My PortfolioForeign Assistance Reform: Successes, Failures, and Next Steps

Lael Brainard, June 12, 2007, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

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Save to My PortfolioThe Lessons of the Marshall Plan

Lael Brainard, June 04, 2007, The Brookings Institution

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Ivo Daalder, a former director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, is an expert on national security affairs, the use of force, nonproliferation and nuclear weapons, transatlantic relations and the policy-making process.
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