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Updated: July 24, 2008
Backgrounder
The United Nations has frequently cited East Timor as a model nation-building project. But new unrest in the tiny Asian state indicates that the international community has again failed to show the stamina to guide a nation toward genuine stability.
See more in East Timor, Nation Building
June 11, 2008
Daily Analysis
U.S. efforts to negotiate a long-term security agreement with Iraq are dividing Iraqi political parties and raising questions about the future of U.S. operations.
See more in United States, Iraq, International Peace and Security, Peacemaking
June 10, 2008
Interview
diyaCFR military expert Stephen Biddle sees improvements in Iraqi security forces but worries about an erosion in stability if the U.S. military presence is sharply reduced.
See more in Iraq, Defense/Homeland Security, International Peace and Security, Peacemaking
April 2, 2008
Testimony
See more in Iraq, Wars and Warfare
April 1, 2008
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall notes that, “NATO is actually doing far less than it should be doing. The current pace of operations creates a crisis-like environment in which the urgent crowds out the important.”
See more in NATO, NATO, Public Diplomacy
February 19, 2008
Must Read
PBS's Frontline explores the story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq, and how it forced the U.S. military to confront the rules of war in a way it never had to before.
See more in United States, Iraq, Wars and Warfare, Peacemaking
February 2008
Must Read
A German institute for international and security affairs calls on the EU to re-examine the underlying purposes of EUFOR Chad/CAR and consider abandoning the entire operation.
See more in Chad, International Organizations, International Peace and Security, Peacemaking
December 14, 2007
Transcript
Four speakers discuss the consequences of an independent Kosovo.
See more in Kosovo, Serbia, Nationalism
December 9, 2007
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Stephen Biddle argues that if the U.S. sees the reduction in violence in Iraq as an opportunity to bring its troops home, much of what has been gained could be lost.
See more in Iraq, Nation Building, U.S. Strategy and Politics
Updated: November 26, 2007
Daily Analysis
The Bush administration is convening a conference in Annapolis to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Skeptics, however, abound.
See more in Israel, Palestinian Authority, International Crime, International Law
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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.
China (8/25): Max Boot argues that Eastern European countries can deter aggression from Russia by bolstering their defense spending, in the Wall Street Journal.
Democracy Promotion (8/22): James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet point out that an agenda of promoting democracy is facing more and more resistance from both sides of the aisle, in the Huffington Post.
China (8/21): Jerome Cohen writes that the Olympics have shed light on many negatives about the Chinese government, in the South China Morning Post.
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In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
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