September 4, 2008
Daily Analysis
Official optimism runs high amid improved security and a growing role for Iraqi forces, but analysts caution against premature celebrations.
See more in Iraq, Civil Reconstruction, Society and Culture
September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The situation in Iraq is improving. With the right strategy, the United States will eventually be able to draw down troops without sacrificing stability.
See more in Iraq, Civil Reconstruction
September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The international community must ensure that people seeking saftey are protected; soverignty is not a shield behind which authoritarian governments may terrorize their own people.
See more in Humanitarian Intervention, Refugees and the Displaced
September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Because borders are becoming ever more porous and contingent, everyone has an interest in humanitarian intervention.
See more in Humanitarian Intervention
August 26, 2008
Interview
F. Stephen Larrabee, an expert on NATO and Eastern Europe, says Russia's invasion of Georgia was an effort to limit "Western influence into the former Soviet space."
See more in Georgia, Russian Fed., Wars and Warfare
September 1, 2008
Op-Ed
Newsweek
Russia may no longer be a superpower, but despite its declining population, it remains a major power, one in a position to influence the opening decades of the 21st century, writes Richard Haass. Because of this, U.S. policy ought to be for the two countries to cooperate where they can—and to disagree and compete within constraints where they must.
See more in Russian Fed., International Organizations, Diplomacy
August 21, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Independent
Although Russia deserves condemnation for its disproportionate response to Georgia’s actions in South Ossetia, the Bush administration’s response to this has gone from appropriately firm to rashly confrontational, writes Charles Kupchan.
See more in Russian Fed., Diplomacy
September/October 2008
Podcast
From the September/October 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs: The next U.S. president will face problems that will require strength and a renewed sense of national purpose to solve.
See more in Iraq, Civil Reconstruction
August 18, 2008
Daily Analysis
South Asia, despite its many functioning democracies, continues to be torn by conflict and vulnerable to military intervention in politics.
See more in South Asia, Democracy and Human Rights, Terrorism
August 13, 2008
Interview
Irfan Husain, a columnist for Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, says the next U.S. president faces the challenge of trying to coax reforms from a splintered Pakistani leadership.
See more in United States, Pakistan, Democracy and Human Rights, Diplomacy, U.S. Election 2008
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Republican Convention (9/4): Michael Gerson writes that John McCain must challenge his party in his convention speech, in the Washington Post.
U.S. Politics (9/3): Amity Shlaes warns against “character campaigns,” arguing they leave little time to develop economic or foreign policy goals, on Bloomberg.com.
Campaign 2008 (9/3): Michael Gerson writes that John McCain’s sense of social justice combines “a religious concern for the weak and the oppressed with a military conception of national honor,” in Newsweek.
Middle East (9/2): Steven Cook looks at how the next U.S. president can be successful in the Middle East, in the American Interest.
Democratic Convention (8/30): Michael Gerson writes that Barack Obama's acceptance speech squandered opportunities to transcend partisan divides, in the Washington Post.
Democratic Convention (8/27): Michael Gerson argues that Barack Obama should use this historic moment to address America's divisions, in the Washington Post.
Presidential Campaign (8/27): Amity Shlaes writes that in America, politics is a contest between hope and fear, on Bloomberg.com.
In this report, CFR Fellow Brad W. Setser recommends addressing the U.S. current account deficit in order to strengthen the United States’ position abroad.
This report, written by CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey, outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
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