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- The Forgotten Front, Caroline Wadhams and
Lawrence Korb
- Global Warming and Security, John Podesta
and Peter Ogden
- Fulfilling Rabin's Vision, Middle East
Progress
- Iraq Neighbors Summit Strategies, Brian
Katulis
- Deadly Dance on Chemical Security, P.J.
Crowley
- Pakistan: Nexus of Failure, Joseph
Cirincione
- Eastern Chad, Omer Ismail and John
Prendergast
- The Threat of Pakistan's
Instability, Joseph
Cirincione
- DHS and Chemical Security, P.J.
Crowley
- U.S. Options in Pakistan, P.J.
Crowley
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Caroline
Wadhams and Lawrence Korb, "The Forgotten Front," CAP Report, November
6, 2007
Six years after the United States led an invasion of Afghanistan to
remove the Taliban from power and destroy Al Qaeda’s safe haven,
Afghanistan faces a growing insurgency that directly threatens its
stability and the national security interests of the United States and
its allies.
The United States and the international community initially made great
strides to oust the Taliban and Al Qaeda and stand up the Afghan
government following the invasion in October 2001, but the situation
has dramatically deteriorated since 2005. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have
regrouped in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan and are
supporting the Afghan insurgency while strengthening their own
capabilities. Although the current administration has portrayed Iraq as
the central front of the “global war on terror,”
Afghanistan and the borderlands of Pakistan remain the central
battlefield.
Click here
to read the full report.
John Podesta and Peter Ogden, "Global Warming: The
Security Challenges of Climate Change," CAP Analysis, November 5, 2007
During the course of the past year, a high-level working group of
foreign policy experts, climate scientists, historians, and other
specialists has met regularly to investigate the national security and
foreign policy implications of climate change. Many of the key findings
of this task force, which was directed by the Center for Strategic and
International Studies and the Center for a New American Security, are
presented in a new report entitled “The Age of
Consequences.”
“The
Age of Consequences” is organized around three possible climate
change
scenarios that were developed by Pew Center Senior Climate Scientist
Dr. Jay Gulledge in consultation with other leading experts in the
field. Our chapter, presented here in its complete, unabridged form,
analyzes the foreign policy and national security implications of the
most moderate of these scenarios over a 30-year timeframe. We identify
the critical challenges created or exacerbated by climate change that
the United States and the international community will confront.
Click here to read the full chapter.
Click here to read the full report.
"Fulfilling
Rabin's Vision,"A Special Edition of the Middle
East Bulletin, Middle East Progress, November 5, 2007
Middle East
Bulletin put out a special edition this week to mark the
anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and to
commemorate his life and legacy. The edition features a
reflection by President William Jefferson Clinton, exclusively written
for the Middle East Bulletin.
The edition also features an original analysis by Nabil Al-Khatib,
executive editor of Al Arabiya; a commentary by Noa Rotman,
granddaughter of PM Rabin, adapted expressly for the Bulletin; and an
English translation of Yuval Rabin's speech given at the Rabin Square
rally on Saturday, November 3, 2007.
Click here
to read the special edition of Middle
East Bulletin.
Click here to
read this week's Middle East
Bulletin.
Brian
Katulis, "Iraq Summit Strategies: Ministerial Meeting in Istanbul
Requires Tangible Outcomes," CAP Article, November 2, 2007
The ministerial summit of Iraq’s neighbors in Istanbul this
weekend comes at a crucial moment. Political and security tensions
remain high across Iraq’s borders. A string of attacks by Kurdish
rebels prompted Turkey’s parliament to approve cross-border
military operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, a
Kurdish guerrilla group hiding out in northern Iraq. Iraqi refugees
continue to flow steadily out of the country, with Syria imposing
restrictions on refugees last month that could send some Iraqis back
home. And Washington and Tehran continue to argue acrimoniously about
the role of Iran in Iraq’s internal conflicts.
Click here to read the full article.
P.J.
Crowley, "A Deadly Dance on Chemical Security Regulation." CAP Article,
November 6, 2007
Chemical security is arguably the most significant homeland security
vulnerability confronting the United States today. Deadly chemicals,
particularly gases such as chlorine, ammonia, and sulfur dioxide,
represent one of the very few genuine terrorist nightmare scenarios
that threaten hundreds of thousands of people.
The risk associated with hazardous chemicals is real, not imagined.
Insurgents in Iraq have attempted on several occasions to convert
chlorine gas tanker trucks into improvised explosive devices. Because
of this, Congress passed needed, if less than perfect, legislation in
September 2006 that granted DHS the authority to regulate high-risk
chemical facilities.
Click here
to read the full article.
Joseph Cirincione, "Pakistan: Nexus of Failure," The Globalist, November 6, 2007
As many have argued for years, Pakistan is the world's most dangerous
nation. This is not a criticism of President of Pakistan Perez
Musharraf's policy towards the United States or his neighbors, but an
evaluation of the precarious state of his regime.
Pakistan has enough material for over sixty nuclear weapons, an
unstable government, strong Islamic fundamentalist influences in its
military and intelligence services, and armed Islamic fundamentalist
groups operating on its territory -- including Osama bin Laden.
Click here to read the full article.
Omer Ismail and John Prendergast, "A Race Against Time
in Eastern Chad," ENOUGH Report, November 7, 2007
For many who follow the crisis in Darfur, Chad is simply the
neighboring country where hundreds of thousands have sought refuge from
the rampages of armed militia backed by the Sudanese government. But
today, Chad is engulfed in its own crisis, one that draws on internal
contradictions but is fueled and inflamed by the conflict in Darfur.
And it is one that is poised to claim tens of thousands of innocent
men, women, and children as its victims.
Time is not on the
side of civilians in eastern Chad, whether they are among the 180,000
internally displaced Chadians, the 231,000 Sudanese refugees, or the
longstanding residents of villages vulnerable to the swirling winds of
violence in the region. Having just returned from a visit to the
Chad/Sudan border, ENOUGH strongly believes there is a real risk of an
escalation of violence and attacks on civilians in the coming weeks. It
is thus urgent to speed up the deployment of the European Union
protection force and mount a robust diplomatic campaign that addresses
the multiple layers of conflict fueling the violence.
Click here to read the full report.
Associated
Press - Joseph Cirincione argues there are few good American
policy options in Pakistan, stating that
Pakistan is the world's most dangerous country — an unstable
place of
strong Islamic fundamentalist influences and a nuclear arsenal. "If the
government falls, if the Army splits, who gets the weapons? "Who gets
the material for the weapons? Who gets the
scientists who know how to build the weapons? Pakistan could go
overnight from a major non-NATO ally to our worst nuclear nightmare."
Washington
Post - P.J. Crowley responds to the Department of Homeland
Security's decision to ease rules requiring tens of thousands of U.S.
chemical plants to protect their stockpiles from terrorists.
Crowley stated that security standards should be higher than
safety standards, "since
the risk associated with a deliberate terrorist attack is more severe
than the potential for an accidental release."
Associated
Press - P.J. Crowley examines U.S. options, in light of recent
events in Pakistan. Crowley warned against "an impulse on
Capitol Hill to cut back the aid. I think
that would be a mistake. If we are going to maintain the leverage we
have with Pakistan, the aid can be useful."
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War/Dance
November 8, 2007, 7:00pm – 9:30pm
ENOUGH, Think Films, Shine Global, and the Center
for American Progress are pleased to present War/Dance. Set in Northern
Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war,
War/Dance tells the story of Dominic, Rose, and Nancy, three children
whose families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed, and who
currently reside in a displaced persons camp in Patongo. When they are
invited to compete in an annual music and dance festival, their
historic journey to their nation's capital is also an opportunity to
regain a part of their childhood and to taste victory for the first
time in their lives.
Please join us for a provocative panel discussion
and Q&A session immediately following the film.
Featured Panelists:
Andrea Nix Fine, Director, War/Dance
Sean Fine, Director, War/Dance
Michael Poffenberger, Executive Director, Resolve
Uganda
John
Prendergast, Co-Founder, The ENOUGH Project
Moderated by:
Gayle Smith, Co-Founder, The ENOUGH Project
Click here
for more information.
The Forgotten Front: A New
Strategy for Afghanistan
Six years after the United States led an invasion
of Afghanistan to
remove the Taliban from power and destroy Al Qaeda's safe haven,
Afghanistan faces a growing insurgency that directly threatens its
stability and the national security interests of the United States and
its allies. The United States, in coordination with the Afghan
government and the international community must change its current
approach toward Afghanistan.
The Center for American Progress will release a
new counterinsurgency
strategy for Afghanistan, outlining a set of recommendations for
strengthening the Afghan government, increasing security, accelerating
reconstruction, combating the narcotics trade, and removing the
terrorist safe haven in Pakistan. The panelists will discuss the new
Center report, as well as offer their valuable insights on U.S. policy
toward Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Featured Panelists:
James F. Dobbins, Director, International
Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation
Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Vice President for
National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress
J. Alexander Thier, Senior Rule of Law
Advisor, Rule of Law Program, United States Institute for Peace
Moderated by:
Caroline P. Wadhams, Senior Policy Analyst,
Center for American Progress
Click here for more information.
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