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- Integrating Security, Lawrence Korb, Sean
Duggan, and Laura Conley
- The Next Phase, Center for American
Progress
- Getting Back on Track to Close
Guantanamo, Ken Gude
- China's New Engagement in the
International System, Nina Hachigian, Winny Chen, and Christopher Beddor
- New York's 9/11 Trial Justice, Ken Gude
- Choosing Between Family and the Military,
Angela Maria Kelley, Lawrence Korb
- Honoring Our Service Members, Center for
American Progress
- Will the U.N.'s Withdrawal Cancel Out the
U.S.'s Civilian Surge?, Brian Katulis
- Grading Obama, Lawrence Korb
- Guantanamo Failings Not Craig's Alone,
Ken Gude
- China's Complex Relationship with the
Dollar, Nina Hachigian
- Administration Mistakes on Guantanamo
Closing, Ken Gude
- Troop Deployment Won't Guarantee
Security, Brian Katulis
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Lawrence Korb, Sean Duggan, and
Laura Conley, "Integrating Security," Center for American Progress,
November 16, 2009
President Barack Obama and his administration face a national security
landscape that is greatly different from the one the United States
confronted at the end of the previous century. Fragile states, weak
governments, extremist non-state actors, hostile nuclear armed regimes,
dynamic rising powers, and economic and environmental threats are but
some of the most serious challenges facing the new administration. The
complex and interconnected nature of these threats means that pursuing
U.S. national security objectives will require a strong investment in
diplomatic development, homeland security, and intelligence skills to
complement our military strength.
Click here to
read the full report.
"The Next Phase," Center for American Progress,
November 12, 2009
A year and three months ago—on the
eve of the Beijing Summer Olympics—CAP issued its comprehensive
China strategy, “A Global Imperative: A Progressive Approach to
U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century.”
The report recommended moving beyond the “engage and hedge”
approach
that has long characterized U.S. strategy and toward a pragmatic and
progressive approach that recognizes the “urgency of our shared
challenges” and “China’s growing importance to global
problem-solving.”
The CAP report was among the first, if not the first, major report to
recommend putting climate and energy at the center of the U.S.-China
relationship. ... Now, on the eve of President Barack Obama’s
first trip to China, the
Center again takes stock of its China strategy, as well as progress to
date and yet to come in climate, economics, and security.
Click here to
read the full report.
Ken Gude, "Getting Back on Track to Close Guantanamo,"
Center for American Progress, November 10, 2009
The challenges in closing Guantanamo
have been significant and the
criticism that President Barack Obama has received from many quarters
has been as irresponsible as it is unrelenting. This political pressure
should not cause the Obama administration to back away from necessary
change. Modest reforms, while welcome, are not sufficient if it leaves
the Bush administration’s detention regime largely intact.
Despite all
of the sound and fury, however, only one question matters: Can
President Obama fulfill his pledge to deliver a paradigm shift in U.S.
detention policy?
Click here to
read the full report.
Nina
Hachigian, Winny Chen, and Christopher Beddor, "China's New Engagement
in the International System," Center for American Progress, November 6,
2009
The Obama administration faces a new
kind of challenge: how
to secure the most cooperation from China on global threats. Never
before in history has a pivotal power emerged in such an interdependent
world in which international institutions, rules and norms blanket
every area of global interaction. Throughout history, the central
preoccupation of rising powers was to amass enough military might to
topple the reigning power of the day in a head-to-head confrontation,
and the central concern of established powers was how to head this off.
Today, though, the United States and China are both caught in the
vortex of globalization where global warming, lethal viruses, economic
imbalances and nuclear proliferation threaten the world’s big
powers,
whether established or emerging. The United States and China need to
cooperate with each other and the rest of the world to successfully
manage these complex and interrelated threats.
Click here to
read the full report.
Ken Gude, "New York's
9/11 Trial Justice," The Guardian, November 13, 2009
The decision today by U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other
9/11 conspirators in a U.S. court is a victory for the rule of law and
the American system of justice. Choosing the most legitimate and fair
forum available will return the focus onto Mohammed and his grievous
crimes, and not on U.S. government misconduct. While the outcome can
never be ordained in any legitimate judicial system, a successful
conviction of Mohammed and his co-conspirators will finally bring
justice to the families of the victims and a clear demonstration that
America has overcome the deadly attacks of September 11.
Click here to read the full article.
Angela Maria Kelley and Lawrence Korb, "Choosing
Between Family and the Military," Center for American Progress,
November 10, 2009
At a time when our forces are thinly
stretched, it does not make sense
for military personnel to face the additional pressure of deciding
whether to stay in the armed forces and abandon their families, or
leave the service they freely joined and move to another country to be
with their loved ones.
Click here to
read the full article.
"Honoring Our Service Members," Center for American
Progress, November 10, 2009
This Veterans Day, we at the Center for
American Progress once again
honor the millions of brave men and women in the active and reserve
components of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard who
have made great sacrifices to protect our country and our
freedoms—especially those who have given their lives. We also
honor the
families, friends, and loved ones who made their service possible.
Click here to
read the full article.
Brian Katulis, "Will
the U.N.'s Withdrawal Cancel Out the U.S.'s Civilian Surge?," Foreign Policy, November 5, 2009
The 600 U.N. staffers who are being
relocated is about the
same number of people the Obama administration is set to send as part
of the
civilian surge in 2009. Deputy Secretary of State Jack Lew late last
month briefed reporters and told them
that the Obama administration plans to have just under 1,000 civilians
with the
State Department and USAID in Afghanistan by the end of the year, up
from 320
at the start, meaning that the civilian surge by the United States is
about
600. So just from a numbers perspective, depending on where the U.N.
staffers
are relocated and for how long, the U.S. civilian surge to Afghanistan
-- if it
indeed goes through as planned -- may simply just cancel out the loss
of U.N.
workers being pulled out.
Click here to
read the full article.
Lawrence Korb,
"Grading Obama," Foreign Policy, November 2, 2009
In
many ways, the foreign-policy situation that President Barack Obama
inherited
was as bad, if not worse, than the economic mess bequeathed to him by
the Bush
administration. And in the year since his election, Obama has reversed
the
decline in American security and by his decisions in key areas has put
us on
the path to recovery.
Click here to
read the full article.
McClatchy - Ken Gude says that efforts to
blame former White House counsel Greg Craig for delays in the planned
shutdown of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility were misplaced: "The
mistakes the Obama administration made were almost exclusively about
dealing with Congress and poor defense of its policy ... that is not
the responsibility of the White House counsel."
Reuters
- Nina Hachigian discusses America's complex relationship with
China, the largest holder of American debt: "If you owe the bank one
dollar it's your problem, if you owe the bank three million dollars
it's the banks problem problem, so it's similar with China. They have
no interest in trying to use leverage with us because ... it'll hurt
them if the value of the dollar falls."
Miami Herald
- Ken Gude argues that the administration's detainee task force was
mishandled, particularly in its relations with Congress: "The White
House failed to support its allies in Congress that were
willing to push back against the fear mongering. ... The result was a
blowout, with Congress overwhelmingly voting to bar the release of any
Guantánamo detainees into the United States and placing severe
restrictions on any other kinds of transfers. "
Reuters -
Brian Katulis discusses ongoing Obama administration deliberations over
Afghan strategy: "We've tripled the number of U.S. troops in
Afghanistan since 2007, and the violence has increased. One of the
questions President Obama is looking at is whether more troops
necessarily lead to greater security."
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Discussing 'Interesting Times'
with New Yorker writer George Packer
November 19,
12:00-1:30 PM
As a writer for The New Yorker magazine,
George Packer has
captured the big ideas and events of the past decade spanning the
September 11 attacks to the election of Barack Obama through the voices
of individuals around the world. Packer's new book, Interesting
Times, unites investigative pieces with personal essays and
detailed narratives of travels through war zones and failed states.
Join the Center for American Progress for a
discussion with Packer
moderated by the Center's Senior Vice President of National Security
and International Policy Rudy deLeon. The conversation will include key
issues of the day such as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Obama
administration's foreign policy, and current trends in America's
ideological debates, as well as broader themes such as the temptations
and dangers of idealism, the moral complexities of war and politics,
and the American capacity for self-blinding and self-renewal.
Featured speaker:
George Packer,
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Moderated by:
Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President of
National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress
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