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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
November 20, 2009
Living in "Interesting Times"
The Center for American Progress talks with writer George Packer about his new book and living in a post-9/11 world.
November 20, 2009
Weekly Round Up: November 16 -20, 2009
This week CAP released a new progressive agenda for national security, broke down the federal deficit, and analyzed the U.S.-China summit.
November 19, 2009
Reconciliation with the Taliban
CAP and the New America Foundation bring together experts to discuss reconciliation efforts with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.
November 16, 2009
Integrating Security
Lawrence J. Korb, Sean Duggan, and Laura Conley present a new progressive agenda for national security in this report.
November 12, 2009
The Next Phase
Trip report from a delegation to China led by John Podesta and findings on the future of U.S.-China relations.
October 23, 2009
Weekly Round Up: October 19 – October 23
This week CAP discussed the danger of leaving health insurance oversight to state regulators, urged better governance in Afghanistan, and noted India's climate steps.
October 22, 2009
Honoring the Unaccounted and Missing in Action
Rudy deLeon, CAP Senior Vice President of National Security and International Policy, delivered a speech in Honolulu's National Cemetery of the Pacific in observance of POW/MIA Day.
October 21, 2009
Keep Pushing Effective Governance in Afghanistan
The international community should continue to demand strong government in Afghanistan as the country heads into another round of voting, write Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Peter Juul.
October 15, 2009
Don't Put All the Security Eggs in the Al Qaeda Basket
Faced with commander McChrystal's grim new security assessment, the Obama administration stands on the brink of making major reforms to its Afghanistan strategy—one that is further complicated by reports of election fraud that diminish the legitimacy of its partner government in Kabul.
September 30, 2009
Forging an American Empire
Lawwrence Korb and Laura Conley discuss bush's foreign policy legacy in the new book, Judging Bush.
September 23, 2009
Targeting Our 9/11 Enemies
The Obama administration's approach to combating terrorist networks shows results, observe Peter Juul and Brian Katulis.
September 14, 2009
Experts in the Field: Haiti
Natalie Ondiak and Reuben Brigety travel to Haiti to look at the country through a sustainable security lens.
September 1, 2009
Haiti’s Changing Tide
Report from Reuben Brigety and Natalie Ondiak lays out a sustainable security strategy for Haiti that would initiate a virtuous circle of development in the country.
August 25, 2009
Securing America's Future
Report from Christopher Beddor, Winny Chen, Rudy deLeon, Shiyong Park, and Daniel J. Weiss argues for stronger national security through reduced oil dependence.
August 21, 2009
Weekly Round Up: August 17 - 21, 2009
This week, CAP looked at the elections in Afghanistan, offered suggestions on modifying Title 1 grants, and continued pushing for health care reform.
August 18, 2009
Blueprint for Defense Transformation
The defense budget is a complicated document. Depending on which baselines, inflation adjustment estimates and supplemental items one includes, clever advocates can make the numbers say almost anything they wish them to say.
August 18, 2009
Containment Succeeded, Pre-emption Failed—Time For A New National Strategy?
From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001, and even now, after the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States has not had a consistent national security strategy that enjoyed the support of the American people and our allies. This situation is markedly different from the Cold War era, when our nation had a clear, coherent, widely supported strategy that focused on containing and deterring Soviet communist expansion. The tragic events of September 11, the increase in terrorism, threats from countries such as North Korea and Iraq, and the advent of a new administration create an imperative once again to fashion and implement a coherent national security strategy that will safeguard our national interests.
August 13, 2009
An Integrated Approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan
John Podesta talks AfPak with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and his interagency team.
August 6, 2009
Sustainable Security 101
A 101 gives the basics on what sustainable security is and why we need this new model to protect U.S. national security and further our foreign policy objectives.
August 5, 2009
CAP Statement on the Safe Return of Laura Ling and Euna Lee
The Center for American Progress shares the relief of the president and many others upon the successful release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
July 31, 2009
Weekly Round Up: July 27 - July 31, 2009
This week CAP continued to push for ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," analyzed new GDP numbers, and showed how health reform would help LGBT Americans.
July 20, 2009
Trade Aid and Security Coalition Conference Remarks
CAP Senior Vice President of National Security Rudy deLeon discussed how to strengthen our civilian institutions of diplomacy and development.
July 10, 2009
Weekly Round Up: July 6 -10, 2009
This week CAP analyzed the G-8 summit in Italy, detailed costly and inefficient medical procedures, and argued for governments to take the lead on climate change.
July 7, 2009
National Security Personnel System Task Review Group Opening Remarks
Rudy deLeon gives the opening remarks at the public meeting for the National Security Personnel System Task Review Group.
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