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- Haiti's Changing Tide, Reuben Brigety and
Natalie Ondiak
- How to Move Forward in Afghanistan, David
Barno
- A View from Israel, Alon Pinkas
- A Sustainable Security Approach to Haiti,
Natalie Ondiak
- Afghanistan A Greater National Security
Concern than Iraq, Lawrence Korb
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Reuben Brigety and Natalie Ondiak,
"Haiti's Changing Tide: A Sustainable Security Case Study," Center for
American Progress, September 1, 2009
The sustainable security paradigm developed by the Center for American
Progress provides a useful framework for examining developments in
Haiti and rethinking U.S. policy toward the country. Sustainable
security is a view of foreign policy that combines national security,
collective security, and human security. It argues that the challenges
arising from poor development outcomes can present very real threats to
American security. As such, the best way to meet such national security
threats is to address the core development problems from which they
arise, and to do so in a cooperative manner with the host government
and the international community. The core of the sustainable security
approach is to use the nexus between development and security as both a
means of identifying threats to our interests and a method for dealing
with them. The complexity of Haiti’s development challenges makes
it a
highly appropriate candidate for the sustainable security model.
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read the full report.
David Barno, "How to
Move Forward in Afghanistan," Middle East Bulletin interview, September 15, 2009
I have been talking about four
things in recent weeks that I think essentially have to happen; ... The
first is that the U.S. has to defeat the Taliban strategy. ... We have
to prove that their outlook on running out the clock won't work. ...
Secondly, ... we have to help this next government of Afghanistan
restore the trust and credibility between the Afghan government and the
people of Afghanistan. ... Third, we need to work hard to get unity of
effort at the ground level in Afghanistan ... not just between the
military-civil enterprise on the international side, but also between
the Afghan government's local officials, Afghan military, Afghan
police, and coalition military forces, diplomats and development
officials. ... And the last
thing may be the most challenging and the one that's most at the
forefront of American media reporting today. We collectively—the
U.S. and our allies—have got to reframe the narrative for
Afghanistan. We have to explain clearly ... what the long-term end game
is, what we are trying to accomplish, what the downside risks are of
failure are and why this effort absolutely must succeed. We have not
done that sufficiently, and the slippage in popular support reflects
the lack of clarity in that message.
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read the full interview.
Alon Pinkas, "A View
from Israel," Middle East Bulletin interview, September 10, 2009
Question:
You are visiting the United States as
part of a public policy campaign on behalf of the Israeli government.
What are the primary objectives of the campaign?
Answer:
There has been a sense in Israel in the
last several months that the U.S. and Israel do not necessarily see eye
to eye about a series of issue. Numerous media reports have compounded
that by drawing a picture of a seemingly ongoing confrontation. The
fundamental idea of this campaign is to talk to as many members of
Congress, the media, university faculty and students and Jewish groups
and explain to them that while there may be policy differences or
emphasis, in general the government of Israel is willing and ready to
seriously and expeditiously engage in a peace process and has no doubts
whatsoever about doing it in complete cooperation with the U.S.
administration.
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read the full interview.
Ask the Expert
- Natalie Ondiak describes a 'dual window of opportunity' in Haiti:
"The physical and security and political space is better than it has
been in decades ... Haiti and the United States and the international
community can engage together to create real development opportunities.
Haiti is at a real serious turning point.
Christian Science
Monitor - Lawrence Korb argues that despite recent attacks
in Iraq, Afghanistan remains a more pressing national security
priority: "I don't think you should forget about [Iraq]. But if
you said to me, 'I have a limited number of troops
and should I put them in Iraq or Afghanistan?' then I would say
Afghanistan."
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