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September 27, 2013

Defense Technology
You Might Have Missed: Counterterrorism, Washington Credibility, and Insurgencies

A Conversation with Hassan Rouhani, Council on Foreign Relations, September 26, 2013. ROUHANI: …While interdependence and competitive cooperative approach, and not enmity, is the order of the day, z…

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January 13, 2012

North Korea
Leadership Transition in North Korea

On December 17, 2011, Kim Jong-il's seventeen-year rule came to an end as he reportedly succumbed to a heart attack. Nearly fifty hours after the event, the North Korean propaganda apparatus sprang i…

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August 18, 2015

Asia
The Implications of Thura Shwe Mann’s Removal

Last week, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) party leader Thura Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, was abruptly removed as party chief, only months before Myanmar’s …

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June 15, 2011

United States
A Conversation with Michael Bloomberg

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg highlights the role of immigrants for America's economic growth and the need for Washington to put aside partisan politics to pass immigration reforms needed to …

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March 19, 2012

Cuba
Cuba: Another View

The views of my CFR colleague Julia Sweig on Cuba appear in an interview posted on our web site here under the title “The Frozen US-Cuba Relationship.” Ms. Sweig sees massive changes occurring in Cu…