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September 1, 2008
Noemie Emery, contributing editor to the Weekly Standard, says Sen. Barack Obama's opposition to the troop surge in Iraq raises questions about his judgment on foreign policy matters. Emery says the surge's success has caused "incoherence" in the Democratic Party's line on Iraq.
See more in Iraq, U.S. Election 2008
August 28, 2008
Peaceful Muslim protests in Kashmir have been shut down by Indian police forces.
See more in Kashmir, Democracy and Human Rights, Ethnicity and National Identity, Religion
August 28, 2008
Thailand's government is currently struggling with political turmoil and the southern insurgency.
See more in Thailand, Society and Culture, Terrorism
August 27, 2008
The collapse of Pakistan's ruling coalition revealed the fragility of the country's transition to democracy.
See more in Pakistan, Democracy Promotion, Terrorism
August 26, 2008
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, make recommendations for U.S. policy toward Russia and Georgia. In an op-ed, Graham and Lieberman say the United States and Europe should work to prevent Russia from "achieving its strategic objectives in Georgia."
See more in Europe/Russia, U.S. Election 2008
August 26, 2008
Protests in Kashmir hearken back to Clinton's description that it might be “the most dangerous place on earth.”
See more in India, Kashmir, Nationalism
2008
In this paper commissioned by the Better World Campaign, Lorne Craner of the International Republican Institute and Kenneth Wollack of the National Democratic Institute make policy recommendations for the next U.S. president on democracy promotion.
See more in United States, Democracy Promotion
August 24, 2008
New York Magazine's Michael Idov writes about how Sen. Joe Lieberman's pro-war position led him to leave the Democratic Party and endorse Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president.
See more in United States, U.S. Election 2008
August & September 2008
In his review of Jason Riley's book, Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders, James Kirchick, assistant editor of the New Republic, examines the debate surrounding U.S. immigration policy.
See more in United States, Immigration
August 20, 2008
John Stossel calls the notion of U.S. independence from foreign oil "a fantasy" and says the next president should rely on the free market to determine the best source of energy for the United States.
See more in United States, Energy
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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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 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.
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“The Next President:” Richard Holbrooke says the next U.S. president will inherit a more difficult set of international challenges than any predecessor since World War II.
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