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- The United States and Brazil: Two
Perspectives on Dealing with Partnership and Rivalry, Kellie Meiman and
David Rothkopf
- Striking the Appropriate Balance, Reuben
Brigety
- Exiting Iraq Responsibly, Katie White and
Steve Bowden
- The Rebranding of a Middle Eastern
Country, Brian Katulis
- U.S. Support for Pakistan's Democracy
Needed, Najam Sethi
- Sustainable Security for Afghanistan,
Reuben Brigety
- Law of the Sea Boon for International
Business, Spencer Boyer
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Kellie Meiman and David Rothkopf, "The United States and Brazil: Two
Perspectives on Dealing with Partnership and Rivalry,"
Center for American Progress, March 12, 2009
Brazil often draws less attention in the United States than its fellow
“BRIC” members—Russia, India and China—but with
a population of nearly
200 million people, Brazil boasts considerable strengths. The
country’s
annual gross domestic product is more than a trillion dollars. A decade
of strong industrial and agricultural export-led growth is now being
matched by recent oil field discoveries that may catapult Brazil to one
of the top ten oil producers in the world. Brazil already has the
world’s leading bio fuel industry. In short, Brazil cannot be
ignored.
Click here to
read the full report.
Reuben Brigety, "Striking the Appropriate Balance,"
House Foreign Affairs Committee testimony, March 18, 2009
The successful performance of foreign
assistance programs across the
spectrum of conflict should be seen as a matter of vital national
interest. Accordingly, it is imperative to reform our civilian
development institutions to perform the tasks our brave men and women
in uniform often find themselves performing due to a lack of capable
civilian partners present in the quantity in which they are needed.
Click here to read the full testimony.
Katie White and Steve Bowden, "Exiting Iraq
Responsibly," Center for American Progress, March 17, 2009
President Barack Obama got it right in
his Iraq speech last month at
Camp Lejeune in North Carolina: It is long past time for U.S. troops to
start redeploying, and Iraq’s relatively peaceful provincial
elections
in January provide a hopeful sign for political progress there. But as
he also noted, much work remains undone to improve the lives of
millions of Iraqis.
Click here to
read the full article.
Brian Katulis, "The
Rebranding of a Middle Eastern Country," TPMCafe, March 16, 2009
The Emirates quickly learned how to play
the Washington game the right
way - first it hired a bevy of lobbyists to help them navigate the
choppy waters of a post-9/11 America that by 2006 had just gotten
really grumpy about Iraq and pretty much all things about the Middle
East. Dubai hired firms to help it fend off a lawsuit about under-age
camel jockeys used in the country, and it got some Washington insiders
to lobby for a range of defense and aerospace interests here in the
Emirates. Less than a year later, the Dubai Group announced a major
deal to give Bourse Dubai a 20 percent stake in the NASDAQ stock
exchange in the United States - and no complaints or opposition
materialized.
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read the full article.
Najam Sethi,
"A View from Lahore: U.S. Support for Pakistan's Democracy Needed," Middle East Bulletin, March 12, 2009
There
are some analysts in America who, despairing of the lack of quick
democratic dividends from Pakistan's warring democrats, argue that in
the event of a military takeover, Washington should get ready to do
business with the new regime. This is misplaced thinking. General
Pervez Musharraf's regime, which was quite stable and popular until its
last months in office, was compelled to play a double game —
supporting the war on terror in exchange for U.S. economic and military
aid while providing safe havens to the Taliban in the tribal areas and
not committing the full might of the military to the war against
terror, partly because of lack of motivation in its rank and file and
partly because of lack of training against guerilla warfare. Any new
military regime would be doubly indisposed to do America's bidding in
the face of strong public hostility.
Click here to
read the full article.
Center for American Progress - Reuben
Brigety discusses recent simulation exercises applying the sustainable
security model to Afghanistan: "The purpose of this simulation is to
help us to understand what
fundamental improvements we might get if were able to do things
differently in Afghanistan. And I think we’ve been able to do
that with
a fantastic group of experts that will help us to see things much more
clearly to change our policies in Afghanistan."
Fox News -
Spencer Boyer says ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the
Sea will offer a clearly defined legal environment for international
commerce: "American firms and businesses want legal certainty so they
can compete with foreign companies for marine resources... [currently]
there's confusion -- a lot of businesses don't want to take that risk."
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Swords and
Ploughshares
March 19, 2009
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
The Sustainable Security Program at the Center for
American Progress
commissioned an innovative scenario exercise to test how much
“bang for
the buck” the U.S. government could achieve in stabilization and
reconstruction operations if it undertook major foreign
assistance reforms. Please join us as Dr.
Reuben Brigety and Dr. Patrick Cronin discuss this new approach to
sustainable security in Afghanistan.
For
more information on panelists and to RSVP, click here.
Prospects for a
Two-State Solution
March 20, 2009
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Middle East
Progress, Americans for Peace Now and the American Task Force on
Palestine will host a discussion with Israeli Brigadier General
(Ret.) Ilan Paz and Ghaith al-Omari, a former senior advisor to
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The conversation will
examine key issues, including how to best to
rebuild Gaza, how to avoid strengthening Hamas while bolstering
Palestinian moderates, and how or whether the United States should
engage with a possible Palestinian national unity government.
For more information on panelists and to RSVP, click here.
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