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Fall 2008
World Affairs Journal
Max Boot compares John McCain and modern day conservatives with Theodore Roosevelt.
See more in U.S. Election 2008
October 1, 2008
Far Eastern Economic Review
Brian P. Klein writes that "As the world economy continues to flounder... China faces the fading memories of a successful Olympics"
September 28, 2008
The New York Times Magazine
Noah Feldman writes that "it is becoming increasingly clear that the defining constitutional problem for the present generation will be the nature of the relationship of the United States to what is somewhat optimistically called the international order."
See more in Global Governance, International Peace and Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics
September/October 2008
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Charles D. Ferguson and Michelle Smith consider the future of the nuclear energy supply.
See more in Energy Security
September 17, 2008
Center for Global Development
This chapter by Stewart Patrick is excerpted from the book The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President and addresses how the United States must reformulate how it handles failing, failed and war-torn states.
See more in International Peace and Security, U.S. Election 2008
September-October 2008
American Interest
Steven A. Cook looks at how the next U.S. president can be successful in the Middle East.
See more in Middle East, U.S. Strategy and Politics, U.S. Election 2008
August 19, 2008
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is in some ways an anti-Wikipedia. In this Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, Amity Shlaes writes that when it comes to ideas, and the election, NBER remains a significant source of value creation in the hunt for a philosophy of content.
May 15, 2008
Far Eastern Economic Review
Jerome A. Cohen and Eva Pils use the case of Hu Jia, 34—a Chinese commentator and activist convicted of undermining the State’s power—to highlight the serious flaws of the Chinese legal system.
See more in China, Democracy and Human Rights
April 8, 2008
Arms Control Today
Charles D. Ferguson discusses the U.S.-Indian nuclear deal.
See more in United States, India, Proliferation
Spring 2008
Issues in Science and Technology
Charles D. Ferguson discusses certain issues of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and how they can be remedied.
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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This report argues that the United States must lead with domestic action on climate change and proposes a U.S. negotiating strategy for a global UN climate agreement that includes commitments from all major economies, while also promoting a less formal Partnership for Climate Cooperation that would focus the world's largest emitters on implementing aggressive emissions reductions.
This Task Force report examines changes in Latin America and in U.S. influence there, while taking account of the region's enduring importance to the United States. The Task Force offers an agenda for U.S. policy toward Latin America and identifies four critical areas that should provide the basis of a new U.S. approach.
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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.
In this report, Bruce W. MacDonald illuminates the strategic landscape of military space competition between the United States and China and highlights the dangers and opportunities the United States confronts in space.
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“ The Latter-Day Sultan:” Akbar Ganji says that blaming Iran's problems on President Ahmadinejad inaccurately suggests that Iran's problems will go away when Ahmadinejad does.
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