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Needing Coercive Diplomacy to Deal with Iran

January 6, 2009

Joshua Gleis on how the U.S. should deal with Iran's nuclear program.

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December 29, 2008

"Bush's 'Orphans' Haunt the World"

Toronto Star

By Thomas M. Nichols, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

"Presidents are often remembered for the things they did, but like many administrations before his own, a significant part of George W. Bush's legacy might well lie with the things he failed to do. The Bush administration essentially "orphaned" several foreign policy issues after 2000 (relations with Mexico and Canada, and the environment, among others) but two are particularly important: tensions with Russia and the future of nuclear arms control."

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December 30, 2008

"Lessons Learned from the 2006 War Being Implemented in Gaza"

The Huffington Post

By Joshua Gleis, Associate, International Security Program

"While many have spoken about the lessons Hamas has learned from Hezbollah over the years, it appears the Israeli political and military establishment has learned one or two of its own. When the 2006 war began, for instance, Olmert vowed to fight on until Israel's two kidnapped soldiers were released, the katyusha rockets being fired from Lebanon were stopped, and Hezbollah was pushed back from the Israeli-Lebanese border. These unrealistic goals were never achieved, and his comments made it all too easy for Hezbollah to claim victory when the fighting ceased."

December 24, 2008

Memo to the Next President: Restoring Diplomacy (Part 2 of 2)

By R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics

In the second part of this exclusive web video, Nicholas Burns, Harvard Kennedy School Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics and former under secretary of State for Political Affairs (2005 to 2008), outlines steps the Obama administration should take to improve U.S. diplomacy and discusses the diplomatic successes of the outgoing Bush administration.

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December 22, 2008

"Arab Sovereignty and Sovereign Wealth Funds"

Agence Global

By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative

"This is a moment when some Arabs should be thinking more in terms of enhancing the wealth of their sovereignty, rather than merely bemoaning the erratic performance of their sovereign wealth."

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December 20, 2008

"They Grew Up Half an Hour Away from Each Other. They Both Faced a Choice. One Became a Successful Entrepreneur and Prominent Thinker. One Bombed Glasgow Airport"

Sunday Herald, (Scotland)

By Azeem Ibrahim, Research Fellow, International Security Program

"...[B]oth he and I faced a choice between seeing Islam as setting us against our country, or as setting us up to be a part of it. Equally clearly, we made different choices. However, that is the same choice facing half a million Muslim young people growing up all over Britain, and about half a billion more all over the world."

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December 22, 2008

"The Coming Fall of Resource Nationalism"

Nuova Energia

By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative

"It seems as if the world has not learnt that the oil industry, much like every other sector of the economy, goes through periodic busts and booms, even though it has been happening since the dawn of the oil industry. John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, the spiritual ancestor of OPEC, was created to combat these market bumps. The current fall in oil price, which may have been precipitated more by fear of a sustained global economic crisis, rather than the actual market fundamentals, shows the fragility of the current global economic order."

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