FPI Overnight Brief - May 17 2010

FPI Overnight Brief

May 17, 2010
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Special Announcement

On the evening of Wednesday, June 2, FPI Director Dan Senor will give a first-hand report on the changing situation in the Middle East at the Union League Club in New York City. For more information, and to RSVP, please visit the Events page on FPI's website. We ask that participants confirm their attendance by Wednesday, May 26.
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Iran

In what could be a stunning breakthrough in the years-long diplomatic deadlock over Iran's nuclear program, Tehran has agreed to send the bulk of its nuclear material to Turkey as part of an exchange meant to ease international concerns about the Islamic Republic's aims and provide fuel for an ailing medical reactor, the spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry told state television Monday morning. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told state television that a letter describing the deal would be sent to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency within a week. "After a final agreement is signed between Iran and the Vienna group, our fuel will be shipped to Turkey under the supervision of Iran and the IAEA," he told journalists on the sidelines of a conference of developing nations. "Then we will dispatch 1,200 kilograms [2,640 pounds] of 3.5% enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms [264 pounds] of 20% enriched uranium fro m the Vienna group." – Los Angeles Times

Iran has expanded the number of machines producing medical reactor-grade uranium, an incremental step that could increase its ability to produce the highly refined material necessary to build a nuclear bomb, said two diplomats in Vienna, home of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency. The disclosure, first revealed by news agencies Friday, ups pressure on diplomats struggling to find a resolution of the confrontation between Tehran and the United States, Israel and their European allies over the nuclear program. – Los Angeles Times

A radical cleric called Saturday for the creation of a "Greater Iran" that would rule over the entire Middle East and Central Asia, in an event that he said would herald the coming of Islam's expected messiah. Ayatollah Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi said the creation of what he calls an Islamic United States is a central aim of the political party he leads called Hezbollah, or Party of God, and that he hoped to make it a reality if they win the next presidential election. – Associated Press

Tom Joscelyn writes: The existence of an al Qaeda network based in Iran has long been known, if too seldom spoken about. Large contingents of al Qaeda fighters relocated to the mullahs’ soil after the fall of the Taliban next door in Afghanistan in late 2001. And there is ample evidence that the al Qaeda fugitives there have been up to no good. – The Weekly Standard

Jonathan Schanzer writes: The [Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act] as it stands is an important step. But there's one more thing Congress should do to make sure the law's provisions actually work: hand over responsibility for enforcing sanctions to the Treasury Department instead of Foggy Bottom. This is not an issue of inside-the-Beltway turf wars -- it's about effectiveness. Over the past three decades, the Treasury Department has shown that it's far more capable and willing to enforce sanctions than the State Department is -- and the sanctions in the new law are just too important to risk implementing halfway. – Foreign Policy

Roya Hakakian writes: [T]his latest round of executions is about more than the old enmity with the Kurds. It is Tehran’s signal to the nation about what to expect in case of any forthcoming unrest in the weeks ahead, as June 12th marks the first anniversary of 2009 elections. There is an alarming twist to this particular maneuver. Though the executions are clearly meant to force the Green activists to abandon their anniversary plans, the victims were not Green activists. Tehran would not risk shedding the blood of the Green leaders and hand a coffin to the already charged masses. Instead, it is doing what it has always done best — it leaves those in the spotlight unharmed to chase the vulnerable who are in the shadows. – World Affairs Journal
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Afghanistan

Farmers from the district of Marja, which since February has been the focus of the largest American-led military operation in Afghanistan, are fleeing the area, saying that the Taliban are terrorizing the population and that American troops cannot protect the civilians. The departure of the farmers is one of the most telling indications that Taliban fighters have found a way to resume their insurgency, three months after thousands of troops invaded this Taliban stronghold in the opening foray of a campaign to take control of southern Afghanistan. Militants have been infiltrating back into the area and the prospect of months of more fighting is undermining public morale, residents and officials said. – New York Times

In the view of many U.S. officials, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been a reluctant commander in chief, hesitant to take a direct role in the military fight against the Taliban insurgency. But during his visit to the U.S. this week, American officials have been trying to emphasize Karzai's position as a wartime leader. – Los Angeles Times

John Bolton writes: Faith in the future and security are certainly benefits of Nato’s military campaign, but our objective is not to remake Afghanistan. That is the Afghans’ job. If Kabul eliminated corruption, conducted free and fair elections, and greatly increased its military reliability and capabilities, that would help to eliminate the Taleban. But we cannot withdraw from the conflict just because the Afghans may not be meeting our standards. Leaving due to Afghan government failures, of which there are and will be many, would jeopardise our strategic objectives, frustrating the very reasons for intervening after 9/11 in the first place: preventing terrorists from re-establishing Afghanistan as a base, or using it to destabilise Pakistan and seize control of Islamabad’s nuclear weapons. – Times of London

A recent edition of PBS’s Ideas in Action discussed the prospects of success for the Afghanistan Surge.
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Iraq

A dispute over the counting of ballots in Iraq’s parliamentary elections in March came to a tentative end on Sunday, with the country’s election commission saying that a partial recount had preserved the narrow victory of the leading rival to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The announcement removed a stumbling block in the long-delayed process of forming a new government that will preside over Iraq as the American military withdraws. With the recount over, the country’s highest court can begin ratifying the results, a crucial step in opening the way for negotiations over the next prime minister. – New York Times

The Islamic State of Iraq, the insurgent group that serves as a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq, announced Sunday that it had replaced two senior leaders killed in a raid last month. A statement, circulated on the Internet, was another indication that the group was seeking to reconstitute itself after a series of defeats that American and Iraqi military officials have described as a crucial setback for the group. Officials say scores of its fighters have recently been killed or arrested and that the network, long the most formidable and resilient militant group, is in disarray. – New York Times

[W]hile United States troops in nearly all other parts of the nation are quietly preparing to withdraw, soldiers stationed here [on Ash Shura] are fighting what looks, for now, like the last American combat in the seven-year war in Iraq…[Insurgents] may only attack Americans now, but with all combat troops scheduled to leave Iraq by the end of August, military commanders worry that this area in northern Iraq offers a glimpse of a post-American Sunni insurgency, led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists intent on overthrowing the Shiite-dominated central government. – New York Times

Josh Rogin reports: The U.S. government is coming around to the realization that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, or at least his political bloc, will come out on top and form the next Iraqi government. It's true that the more secular "Iraqi" alliance led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi won more seats in the parliamentary elections. But since Maliki's State of Law coalition formally joined with the Iraqi National Alliance, which includes radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, administration and embassy officials are anticipating that Allawi will not be able to take a shot at forming a government, and the Maliki-Sadr alliance will come out on top. "In Baghdad, they are calling Allawi the Iraqi Tzipi Livni," said one official source, referring to the Israeli Kadima Party leader, whose party won the most seats in Israel's 2009 elections but was then relegated to the opposition via a similar maneuver by right-wing parties. – The Cable

Max Boot writes: If U.S. troops are withdrawn before land disputes between the KRG and Iraq proper are resolved, Kurdish politicians warn that the result could be war. That is an especially worrisome possibility because the United States has agreed to sell the Iraqi armed forces M-1 tanks and F-16 fighters. We have a moral and strategic obligation to ensure that this high-tech hardware is never used against our Kurdish friends. That argues for keeping a small U.S. force in Iraq after 2011, perhaps 10,000 to 15,000 troops and trainers. The Kurds, for one, would love to host a U.S. military base. The Obama administration should push for that once a new government takes power in Baghdad and negotiations begin on a new Iraqi-American strategic accord to take the place of the one negotiated by President Bush and Nouri al Maliki in 2008. – The Weekly Standard
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The War

Top military officials have continued to rely on a secret network of private spies who have produced hundreds of reports from deep inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to American officials and businessmen, despite concerns among some in the military about the legality of the operation. – New York Times

A growing number of imams in Europe and the Middle East have denounced suicide missions and terrorist acts. Many of these imams, however, still view Al Qaeda, the Taliban or Hamas as legitimate resistance movements, while Mr. Shashaa openly declares that they are violating the tenets of Islam. He travels to mosques and madrasas throughout Europe, as well as the Middle East and Pakistan, telling young Muslims that fighting against American troops and other forces is a violation of their religion. He condemns militant recruiters in his sermons, urges worshipers at Friday Prayer to call the police if they hear about plans for an attack and readily talks with law enforcement officials about the reasons for radicalization and the best way to combat it. – New York Times

Laura Rozen reports: In a new audio recording, the leader of the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda has warned Americans they will be harmed by the Obama administration's alleged decision to authorize the assassination of an American-born Islamic cleric linked to the Ft. Hood shooting and attempted Christmas Day airplane terrorism plots. In the ten minute audio recording, Nasir Abu Basir Al-Wuhayshi, the emir of the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, pledges that Islamic fighers in Yemen will do everything they can to protect the American-born cleric, Anwar Al-Awlaki. - Politico
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NPT RevCon

Will Tobey writes: If the Obama administration is to succeed in averting a wave of nuclear proliferation, it will need support from the scores of countries around the world whose security would be most profoundly affected by it. For their own benefit, they should stand in support of strengthening the Nonproliferation Treaty and against efforts by Iran to divert the Review Conference from a successful outcome. – Shadow Government
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Middle East

Turkey’s main opposition party asked the Constitutional Court on Friday to declare unlawful proposed changes to the Constitution that the opposition says would undercut some of the nation’s most staunchly secular institutions, including the court itself. – New York Times

A seven-year school revamp spearheaded by this gas-rich emirate's first lady is emerging as test case for radical education overhauls in the Mideast. The United Nations and World Bank have long blamed low educational standards for contributing to economic stagnation and instability across the region, which faces the highest rates of youth unemployment in the world and the threat of growing religious extremism. Schoolteachers across the region have been bound by entrenched programs that emphasize religion and rote learning, often from outdated textbooks. Qatar, with a tiny population and outsize natural-gas export revenue, launched a new system in 2004 that stresses problem-solving, math, science, computer skills and foreign-language study. The final slate of new schools in the program was approved last month, giving Qataris over 160 new schools to choose from when the next school year begins in September. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Russia is supplying Syria with warplanes, armored vehicles and air defense systems under existing contracts, ITAR-Tass News Agency quoted the head of the country's state military agency as saying. Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said Russia was selling Syria MiG-29 fighter jets, Pantsir short-range air defense systems and armored vehicles. No further details were provided. - AFP

Saad Eddin Ibrahim writes: The pathological fear of Islamists coming to power if there were free and fair elections seems to have served Arab dictators well. Although Mr. Obama himself made it clear in Cairo that he does not believe the proposition of incompatibility between Islam and democracy, his administration has clearly opted for a policy favoring regional stability over democratic governance. Reducing the funding requested for democracy assistance in next year's U.S. aid to Egypt was a clear message. So was the mild State Department response when Egypt recently extended 29 years of "emergency" law for another two years. That, conveniently, is just long enough to get through a presidential election in Egypt next year. Arab autocrats could not be more heartened…George W. Bush is missed by activists in Cairo and elsewhere who—despite possible misgivings about his policies in Iraq and Afghanistan—benefited from his firm stance on democratic progress. During the time he kept up pressure on dictators, there were openings for a democratic opposition to flourish. The current Obama policy seems weak and inconsistent by contrast. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
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Defense

As the House Armed Services Committee prepares to vote on the 2011 defense authorization bill on Wednesday, GOP panel members are seeking to cement their national security credentials. Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member, said that Republicans will offer several amendments, including one to prevent the transfer of military detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States and to countries where others are known to have “returned to the battlefield.” – The Hill

A next-generation missile interceptor being jointly developed by Japan and the United States would not be able to take out U.S.-bound North Korean long-range ballistic missiles flying over Japan, senior Defense Ministry officials said [May 2]. This is because the range of the interceptor, dubbed the Standard Missile 3 Block 2A, would not allow an Aegis -equipped ship off Japan to target high-flying missiles, the officials said. The finding could affect domestic debate on whether the Japan should break the Constitution to exercise its right to "collective self-defense" so it can shoot down any U.S.-bound missiles that fly over the country. – Japan Times
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Russia

Anthony Brenton writes: The Russian authorities know, after the experience of the 2008 crash, that their country's economic fate is indissolubly bound to that of the West. These links can only grow stronger and carry with them other links — travel, education, culture. As the ties grow tighter, so the space for serious political or other divergence diminishes. - Standpoint

Cathy Young writes: Lenin once said that revolutions happen when those at the top are no longer able to keep things going the way they were, and those at the bottom are no longer willing. In today’s Russia, those at the top still manage, however badly, to stay afloat—and those at the bottom may be dissatisfied but are unwilling to demand change. At least for the time being, the Russian bear limps along. – The Weekly Standard
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China

Full Internet service was restored to the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Friday, 10 months after it was blocked following deadly ethnic rioting that convulsed the regional capital, Urumqi. The blockage was the longest and most widespread in China since the Internet became readily available throughout the country a decade ago. – New York Times

Five pro-democracy candidates won reelection by comfortable margins to Hong Kong's Legislative Council on Sunday, ending a special election that the group's supporters had worked to frame as a referendum on faster reforms toward full democracy. But low voter turnout and a boycott by pro-establishment parties undermined efforts to recast the election as a broader political issue, and it seemed doubtful that the results would influence the pace of reforms. – Washington Post

Foreign companies doing business in China are increasingly feeling as if the deck is stacked against them. China has filed more than a dozen trade cases to limit imports, imposed a series of “buy Chinese” measures and limited exports of some minerals to force multinationals to move factories to China. Foreign executives in China find themselves increasingly at odds with Chinese officials over these measures, which Westerners view as protectionist and intended to give an edge to Chinese companies. Surveys by Western chambers of commerce of executives show growing disenchantment in the last year and a sense that doing business in China, never easy, is growing harder. – New York Times

Japan has urged China to cut its nuclear arsenal or at least to stop stockpiling more atomic weapons, prompting a strong reaction from Beijing at their foreign ministers' talks, officials said Sunday. The rare demand came when Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada met his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, at regional talks in South Korea Saturday, said Kazuo Kodama, the press secretary of Japan's foreign ministry. The Japanese minister said China was the only one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — which includes the United States, Britain, France and Russia — that was still accumulating nuclear weapons. - AFP

Mark Helprin writes: The United States and China are on a collision course in the Western Pacific. Far sooner than once anticipated, China will achieve effective military parity in Asia, general conventional parity, and nuclear parity. Then the short road to superiority will be impossible for it to ignore, as it is already on its way thanks to a brilliant policy borrowed from Japan and Israel. That is, briefly, since Deng Xiaoping, China has understood that, without catastrophic social dislocation, it can leverage its spectacular economic growth into X increases in per-capita GDP but many-times-X increases in military spending. To wit, between 1988 and 2007, a tenfold increase in per-capita GDP ($256 to $2,539) but a 21-fold purchasing power parity increase in military expenditures to $122 billion from $5.78 billion. The major constraint has been that an ever increasing rate of technical advance can only be absorbed so fast even by a rapidly modernizing military. Meanwhile, in good times and in bad, under Republicans and under Democrats, with defense spending insufficient across the board the United States has slowed, frozen, or reversed the development of the kind of war-fighting assets that China rallies forward (nuclear weapons, fighter planes, surface combatants, submarines, space surveillance) and those (antisubmarine warfare capacity, carrier battle groups, and fleet missile defense) that China does not yet need to counter us but that we need to counter it. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
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United Kingdom

Fred Barnes writes: Less than an hour after David Cameron became British prime minister last week, he got a congratulatory phone call from President Obama. That was merely a courtesy. What the president said was not. “As I told the prime minister,” the president said in a statement later, “the United States has no closer friend and ally than the United Kingdom, and I reiterated my deep and personal commitment to the special relationship between our two countries, a bond that has endured for generations and across party lines.” Given Obama’s role in tearing down the once formidable partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom, his words may represent a significant shift in his foreign policy. Or they could be diplomatic happy talk, signifying little. We’ll know soon enough, for issues that have divided the United States and Britain are bound to crop up even before Cameron visits Washington in July. – The Weekly Standard
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Americas

President Felipe Calderón arrives in Washington this week for a two-day state visit that was supposed to be a celebration of U.S.-Mexican cooperation in his drug war. Instead, it is likely to showcase Mexico's frustration over Arizona's tough new immigration law, which Calderón has described as anti-Mexican. – Washington Post

Mexican authorities scrambled over the weekend to locate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, a former presidential candidate and wealthy lawyer whose disappearance is the most high profile apparent kidnapping since President Felipe Calderón began his war on drugs in 2006. Mr. Fernández, who ran for president with the National Action Party, or PAN, in 1994, disappeared Friday night in the central state of Querétaro, officials from the attorney general's office said. His car was found abandoned with bloody footprints nearby. The officials said on Sunday they had no knowledge about who might have kidnapped him. – Wall Street Journal

Venezuelan authorities have raided currency trading offices and arrested a man who posts black-market rates for currency on the Internet as President Hugo Chavez ramps up efforts to defend the country's embattled currency. Jaime Renteria, 52, is apparently the first person arrested for illegal currency trading under Mr. Chavez's new crackdown, which has been prompted by a sharp decline in the free-market value of the bolivar. – Associated Press
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Thailand

Protesters in Thailand said Sunday that they were willing to participate in U.N.-monitored talks with the government if the military ends a four-day-old crackdown that has turned parts of downtown Bangkok into a war zone. One Thai official described the offer as a "positive sign" and asked for more details, as the government backed away from a threat to impose a curfew in Bangkok, a city renowned for its rowdy nightlife. But the government quickly rejected any mediation by the United Nations and said that if the "red shirt" protesters are serious about negotiations, they should set no preconditions. – Washington Post

A rogue Thai general who helped anti-government protesters and was shot by an unidentified sniper died Monday from his wounds, raising fears of new violence after five days of street battles that have killed 36 people in downtown Bangkok. Maj. Gen. Khattiya Sawasdiphol, a renegade army officer accused of creating a paramilitary force for the Red Shirt protesters, died Monday of gunshot wounds, the Vajira Hospital reported. The death came five days after he was shot in the head by a sniper in downtown Bangkok while talking to journalists inside the perimeter of the protest zone. – Associated Press

Analysis: A battle over Thailand’s future is raging, but the one man who has been able to resolve such intractable conflicts in the past has been notably silent: King Bhumibol Adulyadej, long a unifying father figure for his nation. Thailand is convulsed by a bitter struggle between the nation’s elite and its disenfranchised poor, played out in protests that have paralyzed Bangkok for weeks and now threaten to expand. The ailing 82-year-old king finds his power to sway events ebbing as the fight continues over the shape of a post-Bhumibol Thailand. – New York Times
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Sudan

Sudanese authorities arrested an opposition leader and closed down his party newspaper, accusing him of directing rebel attacks in the strife-torn Darfur region, a government official said on Sunday. Supporters of Islamist ideologue Hassan al-Turabi dismissed the accusations, saying Khartoum was cracking down on dissent a month after the country's first open elections in 24 years. Armed security agents detained Turabi in his Khartoum home late on Saturday then launched a dawn raid on the newspaper linked to his Popular Congress Party (PCP), arresting staff and seizing Sunday's print-run, his family and supporters said. – Reuters

Sudan's army said it seized a key rebel stronghold in Darfur and killed 108 insurgents late on Friday, dealing a heavy blow to already floundering peace talks in the remote western region. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) dismissed the report, saying it had withdrawn from the Jabel Moun area voluntarily days earlier to spare the population government bombing raids and shelling. But it said other recent clashes showed Sudan's government had chosen to go back to war and the chances of finding a negotiated solution were "very remote." - Reuters
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Events

Taiwan's Potential in the Global Marketplace
American Enterprise Institute
May 17

The Continuing Allure of the Muslim Brotherhood for US Policymakers
Hudson Institute
May 17

Putting "Culture" into the Middle East Agenda
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 17

Russian-American Intelligence Cooperation
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 17

Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Cyber Threat
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 17

The New START Treaty
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
May 18

A Midterm Assessment of the Ma-Ying jeou Administration
Center for Strategic and International Studies
May 18

Pakistan 2010: Challenges and Opportunities
Middle East Institute
May 18

Afghanistan: A Look Ahead
New America Foundation
May 18

A Mosque in Munich
New America Foundation
May 18

Separation of Powers in Russia and Ukraine
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 18

The Campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan: An Assessment
Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
May 18

The Lessons and History of START
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
May 19

Empowering Haiti to Rebuild Better
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
May 19

The Future of Afghanistan
Heritage Foundation
May 19

NATO in the 21st Century
Center for Strategic and International Studies
May 19

Displacement, Violence, and Peace in the DRC
United States Institute of Peace
May 19

Yemeni Women: Challenges and Little Hope
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 19

Turkey in Transition: A View from the Parliament
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 19

Solidarity with the People of Cuba
Heritage Foundation
May 20

Afghanistan's Road to Reconstruction
Atlantic Council
May 20

Africa: New Insights Into Population Growth and Development
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 20

The European Way for America?
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 20

Hezbollah and the Next War With Israel
Middle East Institute
May 21

The Evolution of NATO: The 2010 Strategic Concept and Beyond
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 21

Warring Futures
New America Foundation
May 24

Our Region and the World: A View from Turkey
Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
May 24

Failing Health Systems in the former Soviet Union
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 24

The US and Cuba: Implications of an Economic Relationship
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 24

Conservatives, China, and the Legacy of Walter Judd
Heritage Foundation
May 25

Screening of "Terror in Mumbai"
Heritage Foundation
May 25

Keeping a Finger on Electromagnetic Pulse
Heritage Foundation
May 25

National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law
Hudson Institute
May 25

PONI: US Nuclear Declaratory Policy
Center for Strategic and International Studies
May 25

Moving the Transatlantic Partnership Beyond the Prague Agenda
Atlantic Council
May 25

Legitimizing the Illegitimate: Burma’s Political Dilemmas
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 25

The Closing of the Muslim Mind
Heritage Foundation
May 26

China, Latin America, and the US: The New Triangle
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 26

The Grand Jihad
Heritage Foundation
May 26

Police in Counterinsurgency
United States Institute of Peace
May 27

Threats to Maritime Security
United States Institute of Peace
June 2

Trends and Implications of Military Expenditures in South America
Brookings Institution
June 3

Iran: The Year of Reckoning
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 4

Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 7

Russia as a Donor: What is Behind the Increase in Multilateral Aid?
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 7

Overcoming Pakistan's Population Challenge
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 9

Bashar's Syria at 10
American Enterprise Institute
June 10

Shaping the Agenda: Security in the 21st Century
Center for A New American Securitry
June 10

Islamic Feminism and Beyond: The New Frontier
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 15

Religious Freedoms in Today's Russia
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 15

A Chance in Hell: The Men Who Triumphed Over Iraq's Deadliest City
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
June 30

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