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A National Strategy for Global Development
Reuben Brigety and Sabina Dewan offer a strategy for protecting America and our world through sustainable security.
In Search of Sustainable Security
This report, the first in a series of six, provides analysis and recommendations for a new approach that combines national security, human security, and collective security.Other National Security Strategy Features
July 2, 2009
Weekly Round Up: June 29 - July 2, 2009
This week CAP proposed a new U.S. Russia policy, offered ways to finance health care reform, and laid out the basics on the green bank.
June 24, 2009
Nuclear Security Cooperation Between the United States and Pakistan
A survey by Andrew J. Grotto and Michelle Hammer catalogues nuclear security cooperation between the United States and Pakistan from 2000 to 2009.
June 23, 2009
Establish "Rules of the Road" in the Gulf
In the past four months, two European submarines carrying nuclear weapons collided in the Atlantic Ocean, Chinese ships harassed a U.S. Navy vessel in the South China Sea, an American nuclear submarine ran into the USS New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz, and a Chinese submarine collided with an underwater sonar array towed by the U.S. destroyer John S. McCain off the coast of the Philippines.
June 19, 2009
Weekly Round Up: June 15 - 19, 2009
This week CAP argued for applying human rights standards to domestic policies, showed how sound environmental policy can be sound economic policy, and stressed the importance of getting financial regulation right.
June 19, 2009
Credible Missile Defenses Needed
North Korea’s latest saber-rattling shows we need reliable antimissile defenses for real threats, writes Andrew Grotto.
June 9, 2009
An Important First Step in Actually Closing Guantánamo
The trial of a top Al Qaeda official in a U.S. court is a major step toward closing the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, writes Ken Gude.
June 8, 2009
Una Decisión Histórica Sobre Cuba
La Organización de Estados Americanos aprobaron la reintegración de Cuba al sistema interamericano, pero las intenciones de la isla en unirse siguen en vilo, como lo explica Stephanie Miller.
June 3, 2009
Cooperating with China in Latin America
The United States should find ways to turn China’s growing presence in Latin America and the Caribbean into an opportunity, writes Stephanie Miller.
June 2, 2009
Out of the Torture Photo Box
Transparency can be achieved without a photo release, but only with full public account of torture investigations, writes Ken Gude.
June 2, 2009
Ask the Expert: Why Do We Need a National Strategy for Global Development?
Sabina Dewan explains why the United States needs a national strategy for global development and what that would look like.
May 29, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 26 - 29, 2009
CAP offered recommendations for next steps in Pakistan, explained why we need health reform, and showed support building for immigration reform.
May 27, 2009
Meeting the Challenges in Pakistan
Lawrence J. Korb, Brian Katulis, and Colin Cookman report on the current situation in Pakistan and how to move U.S. strategy forward.
May 27, 2009
Video: Pakistan: Experts in the Field
Lawrence Korb, Brian Katulis, and Colin Cookman recently returned from a research trip to Pakistan, and this video chronicles what they found.
May 22, 2009
Back on Track to Close Guantánamo
President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney outlined two very different approaches to Guantánamo yesterday, writes Ken Gude.
May 15, 2009
CAP Congratulates Rudy deLeon
CAP's SVP for National Security and International Policy tapped to chair Defense Department's National Security Personnel System review.
May 15, 2009
Weekly Round Up: May 11 - 15, 2009
This week CAP provided a new antitrust agenda for today's economy, evaluated several energy proposals before Congress, and released new reports on the progressive Millenial Generation.
April 29, 2009
Securing America’s Energy Independence Through Energy Diversification
Report by Shiyong Park, Winny Chen, and Rudy deLeon makes the case for America's diversification of energy.
April 24, 2009
Korb vs. vanden Heuvel
The Center for American Progress's Lawrence Korb debates Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation, for the website Rethink Afghanistan.
April 23, 2009
Bush's Willing Torturers
We now know that legal opinions were merely retroactive cover. The Bush administration's first instinct was toward abuse, writes Ken Gude in The Guardian online.
April 17, 2009
Weekly Round Up: April 13 - 17, 2009
This week CAP developed new approaches to U.S. relations with Latin America, examined how the recession is affecting African-American men, and more.
April 15, 2009
Lessons from Iraq: Using Aid Effectively in Afghanistan and Pakistan
CAP explores the lessons from Iraq and the challenges in Afghanistan with the special inspector generals who are leading reconstruction efforts in both countries.
April 9, 2009
Pride and Providence
President Obama wants to restore American global leadership to its post-WWII bearings, write Spencer P. Boyer and Ken Gude. That’s exceptional.
April 8, 2009
Una Estrategia Regional Para la Lucha Contra las Drogas en las Americas
La administración de Barack Obama debe elaborar una estrategia regional e integral para impedir que la violencia relacionada con las drogas trascienda más allá de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México, relata Stephanie Miller.
April 2, 2009
Reassessing Foreign Assistance to Pakistan
Lawrence J. Korb offers recommendations for U.S. engagement in Pakistan and a bold new approach for the region.
March 31, 2009
The Next Likely Step for Terror Networks Is More Attacks in the Heart of Pakistan
Terrorist attacks in Pakistan are likely to escalate, and stopping them will require intelligence, police work, and government's efforts, write Brian Katulis and Peter Juul.
March 30, 2009
Pakistan Requires a Sustainable Security Strategy
Brian Katulis discusses the current state of affairs in Pakistan and what the Obama administration can do to work politically, diplomatically, and economically in the country.
March 27, 2009
Weekly Round Up: March 23 -27, 2009
This week the Center continued its focus on Afghanistan, looked at ways to improve health care, and analyzed new unemployment numbers.
March 26, 2009
Obama's European Listening Tour
At the 45th Munich conference on security policy in February, vice-president Joe Biden reminded America's European allies that the United States is ready to listen again. Referring to President Barack Obama's strategic review of US policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan in advance of Nato's 60th anniversary summit, Biden noted: "We seek ideas and input from you and all of our partners."
March 24, 2009
Sustainable Security in Afghanistan
Report from Lawrence Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Sean Duggan provides recommendations for a lasting security in Afghanistan.
March 20, 2009
Assessing the Debates: Development, Diplomacy, and Defense as a Policy Framework
Lawrence J. Korb speaks on development, diplomacy, and defense as a policy framework at the AFRICOM Conference at the University of Pittsburgh.
March 20, 2009
Reforming Weapon Systems Acquisition
The Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act could rein in Defense Department spending, writes Krisila Benson.
March 20, 2009
Using Foreign Assistance for Success
At a CAP event, Reuben Brigety, Director of the Sustainable Security Program, discussed his new report on why we need to overhaul U.S. policy in Afghanistan and other war-torn regions.
March 19, 2009
Swords and Ploughshares
A report by Reuben Brigety presents the results of a simulation exercise to assess the impact of U.S. foreign assistance in Afghanistan.
March 18, 2009
Striking the Appropriate Balance
CAP Action's Reuben Brigety testifies before the U.S House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Department of Defense's expanding role in foreign assistance.
March 12, 2009
Video: Sustainable Security in Action
Video documents a simulation where experts apply the sustainable security approach to foreign affairs to operations in Afghanistan.
February 27, 2009
A Reinvigoration of International Cooperation
MP Des Browne discusses the future of the United States and the international community at a CAP event.
February 6, 2009
World Publics Optimistic About Obama Presidency
Public opinion analysis from Ruy Teixeira shows that world publics believe Obama will improve relations and that he should start with the economy and Iraq.
January 22, 2009
Closing Guantanamo, Restoring American Values
President Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo and the secret CIA prisons shows the world the the United States is back and ready to lead.
January 6, 2009
Closing Guantánamo 101
Why we need to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and six steps to get there.
January 5, 2009
The New New Deal Goes Global
What is missing so far from today's talk of a progressive-era-in-the-making is a unifying agenda for American foreign policy that will leave the world safer and more prosperous when President-elect Obama leaves office.
December 12, 2008
Putting Aid and Trade to Work
Sabina Dewan and Reuben Brigety discuss how to foster sustainable security with international development.
December 8, 2008
Stop this Fiasco
Ken Gude on why the U.S. secretary of defesce must close down the Guantánamo military commissions before any more damage is done.
December 1, 2008
The Case for Keeping Gates
Brian Katulis and Nancy Soderberg called for Obama to keep Gates months ago in this Washington Post op-ed.
December 1, 2008
Obama's National Security Challenges
Lawrence J. Korb talks about the national security issues that the Obama administration will have to address, and what it should prioritize.
December 1, 2008
Scholars’ Statement of Principles for the New President on U.S. Detention Policy
A statement from several prominent scholars on principles for the new president and Congress on U.S. detention policies.
November 20, 2008
A Post-Cold War President
In Washington, cold war thinking dies hard, but President-elect Barack Obama knows we need to confront 21st century issues, writes Nina Hachigian.
November 17, 2008
Orienting the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review
Andrew Grotto and Joseph Cirincione identify and provide recommendations for the key nuclear policy issues that demand senior-level attention.
November 17, 2008
Partnership for Progress
Report from Caroline Wadhams, Brian Katulis, Lawrence J. Korb, and Colin Cookman offers a new strategy for prosperity and stability in Pakistan and the region.
November 13, 2008
The Price of Prevention
The fourth report in the Sustainable Security series by Gayle Smith, David Sullivan, and Andrew Sweet looks at how to deal with global crises before they occur.
November 12, 2008