December 2, 2008
Backgrounder
A profile of the Pakistani militant group India blames for some of the most severe terror attacks it has suffered in recent years, including the Mumbai assault of November 2008.
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Updated: November 27, 2008
Backgrounder
India not only faces evolving threats from Kashmiri militants, but also an increasingly violent Maoist insurgency.
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Updated: November 17, 2008
Backgrounder
A profile of ETA, a terrorist separatist group operating in the Basque regions of Spain and France.
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August 20, 2008
Daily Analysis
Analysts are studying whether al-Qaeda in Iraq, severely diminished over five years of war, is moving its war against the West to Afghanistan.
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August 13, 2008
Daily Analysis
Two years after the UN-brokered cease-fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon, lasting peace remains elusive.
Updated: July 31, 2008
Backgrounder
A profile of an Algerian terrorist group that has aligned itself with al-Qaeda and is going global.
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Updated: July 31, 2008
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A profile of the Muslim separatist group based in the Xinjiang province in northwest China.
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Updated: July 21, 2008
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A profile of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist terrorist group that seeks an independent state in areas in Sri Lanka inhabited by ethnic Tamils.
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Updated: July 2, 2008
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Though toppled from power in Kabul in 2001, the Taliban has become a resilient force active on two fronts—in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Updated: June 27, 2008
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A profile of the Algerian terrorist organization, Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
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Nuclear Energy (1/6): Charles Ferguson and Michelle Smith argue that nuclear energy “will not be the miracle cure for energy dependence or global warming that boosters promise,” in Foreign Policy.
Gaza Violence (1/5): Steven Cook writes in U.S. News & World Report that Israel's exercise of military power in the Gaza Strip, employed legitimately or not, is unlikely to achieve its desired goals.
The Obama Administration (1/5): Michael Gerson writes that Obama “will require sober supporters--and loyal critics--to get through challenges” in 2009, in the Washington Post.
Border Security (1/3): Edward Alden urges President-elect Obama to begin rebuilding trust with Canada as a partner in trade and counterterrorism when he takes office, in the Ottawa Citizen.
Energy and Environment (1/3): David Victor and Arun Rai warn that “the global environment may be one of the biggest losers in the current financial crisis” as clean coal projects are abandoned around the world, in Newsweek.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1/2): Michael Gerson writes that the removal of the threat Hamas poses to the Israeli people is “the prerequisite for the resumption of the peace process,” in the Washington Post.
The Obama Administration (12/31): Amity Shlaes argues that “a new hundred days spent making good laws will bring sturdy recovery,” in the Washington Post.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
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In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
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