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- Clear Benchmarks for Sudan, John
Prendergast
- Seeing Orange, Samuel Charap
- How 'Mature' Is the U.S.-China
Partnership?, Winny Chen
- Helping Haiti, Andrew Sweet and Rudy
deLeon
- Ukraine's Elections Demand Engagement,
Samuel Charap
- Sustainable Development Is Possible in
Yemen, Danya Greenfield
- Military Relief Effort in Haiti, Lawrence
Korb
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John
Prendergast, "Clear Benchmarks for Sudan," Enough, January 19, 2010
To date, the Obama administration has
not publicly disclosed the
precise benchmarks it is applying to assess progress in Sudan, even as
the official review process takes place this month and as tensions
increase with the April national elections and January 2011 referendum
on independence for southern Sudan rapidly approaching. To help bring
transparency to the process by which the United States ensures strict
adherence to unambiguous benchmarks, and ensure that the appropriate
pressures and incentives are applied accordingly, this paper aims to
provide guidance for how officials, concerned citizens, and others in
the international community can assess genuine progress toward a
lasting peace in Sudan.
Click here to
read the full report.
Samuel Charap, "Seeing Orange," Foreign Policy, January 18, 2010
Ukrainians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a president for the
first time since the dramatic events of 2004-2005 that came to be known
as the Orange Revolution. Early results indicate that Viktor
Yanukovych, the leader of the parliamentary opposition, and Yulia
Tymoshenko, the current prime minister, lead the pack of 18 candidates,
with Yanukovych in position to garner between 31 and 38 percent to
Tymoshenko's 25 to 27 percent. The Central Election Commission is
unlikely to issue the final tally for at least a week, but it is clear
that neither candidate will end up with over 50 percent of the vote,
triggering a runoff on Feb. 7. While this result might seem like a blow
to Western interests, a closer look at both the last five years of
Ukrainian politics under Yushchenko and the likely policies of his
probable successors shows that the situation is far less dire than it
has been portrayed.
Click here to
read the full article.
Winny Chen, "How
'Mature' Is the U.S.-China Relationship?," Center for American
Progress, January 15, 2010
Last year was smooth sailing for U.S.-China relations. The Obama
administration and China’s leaders resumed direct
military-to-military
dialogue, had a successful kickoff of the new Strategic and Economic
Dialogue followed by a high-profile presidential summit in Beijing. The
two presidents even reached a climate change agreement in Copenhagen.
But the next few months look to be the real test of whether the
U.S.-China relationship has actually become the “mature”
one that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
assert it is.
Click here to
read the full article.
Andrew Sweet and Rudy deLeon, "Helping Haiti," Center
for American Progress, January 14, 2010
Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti has
piled more misery on an already hard-pressed population. ... After the
emergency response, the reconstruction and development phase
will likely last for decades. Absent this commitment, already high
levels of poverty will rise, emigration will likely increase as
individuals look to escape the deteriorating environment, and the
future of Cité Soleil—the densely populated shanty town in
Port-au-Prince already known for high levels of poverty and
violence—is
of particular concern with its large, unemployed youth population.
Click here to
read the full article.
Samuel Charap, "Ukraine's
Elections Demand Engagement,"
Center for American Progress, January 14, 2010
More is needed to make sure that Ukraine’s political elite is
aware that
we are paying attention and that there is a cost associated with
undermining the democratic process. The administration should make it
clear—both publicly and privately—that the runoff election
must be free
and fair; that the results must not be manipulated; and that the
voters, not the courts or the streets, should determine the outcome.
The administration should also urge our European allies to take a more
active stance. Their proximity, greater economic ties, and the
institutional levers the EU’s neighborhood policy gives them make
their
collective voice perhaps even more important than ours.
Click here to read the full article.
Danya Greenfield,
"Sustainable Development Is Possible in Yemen," Center for American
Progress, January 14, 2010
A month ago, it would have been difficult for most Americans to find
Yemen on a map, or for most policymakers in Washington to engage
meaningfully in a discussion on the internal complexities of this
almost failed state. But all that changed in the wake of the Christmas
Day attack by the Nigerian underwear bomber aboard a flight from
Amsterdam to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallah, who apparently
received his training and his explosives from Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Click here to
read the full article.
MinnPost -
Lawrence Korb compares the current efforts in Haiti to previous
American military disaster relief operations:
"We sent 8,000 marines to Indonesia after the tsunami, and that
intervention stands out as one of the best examples of use of the US
military in a disaster ... the use of the military in this way really
undermines the Al Qaeda narrative" and helps to burnish America's
diplomatic image.
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Administration Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
January 25,
12:00-1:30 PM
As the international community prepares to convene
in London on
January 28 to coordinate its efforts in Afghanistan, please join the
Center for American Progress for remarks by National Security Advisor
James L. Jones on January 25, 2010 on the administration's strategy in
Afghanistan and the region.
Jones' speech will be followed by a panel of
experts on Afghanistan
analyzing the international community's
nonmilitary efforts in the country. Panelists will assess U.S. progress
on the "civilian surge," efforts to improve Afghan governance and
tackle corruption, recent proposals for reconciliation with elements of
the insurgency put forth by the Karzai government, and ways in which
the United States can improve its own coordination and capacity on the
civilian side.
Introduction by:
Lawrence Korb, Senior
Fellow, Center for American Progress
Featured speaker:
General
James L. Jones, National Security Advisor to
President Barack Obama
Panelists
J. Alexander Thier, Afghanistan
and Pakistan Director, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
Paul O'Brien,
Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Oxfam America
James Bever,
Director, Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force, USAID
Moderated by
Caroline Wadhams,
Senior Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress
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information and to RSVP, please click here.
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