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The World Next Week: November 6, 2009

Council on Foreign Relations — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:21:02 -0500

A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and Foreign Affairs.

International Religious Freedom Report, 2009

Council on Foreign Relations — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:04 -0500

Report

Fact Sheet: U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, October 2009

Council on Foreign Relations — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:47:06 -0500

Fact Sheet

Quarterly Report to Congress, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, October 2009

Council on Foreign Relations — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:37:24 -0500

Report

Academic Conference Call: The Challenge of Somalia (Audio)

Council on Foreign Relations — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:45:26 -0500

Listen to Bronwyn E. Bruton, international affairs fellow in residence at CFR, discuss her recent Foreign Affairs article, "In the Quicksands of Somalia," with students as part of CFR's Academic Conference Call series.

The Fall of the Wall and American Grand Strategy

Council on Foreign Relations — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:43:28 -0500

The fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago marked a triumph of the U.S. strategy of containment. But U.S. policymakers have been struggling to establish new guidelines for confronting the world's complex challenges.

Miami Herald: Is U.S. facing a dead end?

Council on Foreign Relations — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:53:54 -0500

Marifeli Perez-Stable discusses the leakage by El País of Obama's message to Raul Castro, warning that if the administration doesn't "break the tired two-step" of Cuban-American relations soon, it may be too late.

Iran's Nuclear Diversion

Council on Foreign Relations — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:49:08 -0500

Ray Takeyh writes that the Iranian administration is diverting attention to its nuclear program as a way to avoid scrutiny of its attempts to squash democratic dissent within Iran.

Momentous Day Twenty Years Ago in Berlin

Council on Foreign Relations — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:48 -0500

CFR's Bernard Gwertzman and Serge Schmemann of the International Herald Tribune discuss their role in reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and the enduring significance of that day.

Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Illusion or Possibility (Audio)

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:10:18 -0500

Listen to Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speak about the current nuclear situation, threats to stability, and ways to further promote nonproliferation.

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: Fiscal Irresponsibility Clouds the Future of the United States (Audio)

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:04 -0500

Listen to Richard A. Posner, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, analyze how past fiscal irresponsibility has led to challenges to the global standing of the U.S. financial markets.

Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Illusion or Possibility (Video)

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:31:12 -0500

Watch Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speak about the current nuclear situation, threats to stability, and ways to further promote nonproliferation.

Nigeria: Progress Towards Rule of Law

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:30:49 -0500

Ambassador John Campbell writes that under the presidency of Umaru Yar'adu, Nigeria is moving away from its corrupt system and towards the rule of law.

Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: Illusion or Possibility

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:10:13 -0500

Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks about the current nuclear situation, threats to stability, and ways to further promote nonproliferation.

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics: Fiscal Irresponsibility Clouds the Future of the United States (Video)

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:21:20 -0500

Watch Richard A. Posner, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, analyze how past fiscal irresponsibility has led to challenges to the global standing of the U.S. financial markets.

Guardian: 1989 changed the world. But where now for Europe?

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:33:39 -0500

Timothy Garton Ash examines global politics twenty years since 1989 and questions whether today's Europe, ""mired in the narcissism of minor difference," can recapture the strategic boldness and historical imagination of 1989.

Academic Module: Eurasian Energy Security

Council on Foreign Relations — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:15:24 -0500

This academic module features teaching notes by Jeffrey Mankoff, author of the Council Special Report Eurasian Energy Security, along with additional resources to supplement the text. In this report, Dr. Mankoff examines Russia's rise as an energy power and suggests that Europe can increase its energy security by working with--not against--Russia going forward.

Oceans Act (Canada)

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:07:04 -0500

Act

Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:05:27 -0500

Mandate

UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:42 -0500

Plan

President Obama Tours Asia

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:28:46 -0500

Ahead of President Obama's Asia trip, CFR experts Sheila Smith, Joshua Kurlantzick, Elizabeth Economy, and Scott Snyder discuss what the president should focus on during his visit to Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea.

Pull the Plug on the Afghan Surge

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:51:43 -0500

"General Stanley McChrystal's plan to pursue counterinsurgency in the countryside is a bridge too far," write Steve Simon and Charles Kupchan, arguing, instead, that Afghanistan policy should be focused on establishing control in strategic locations.

More Afghan Troops Needed to Secure Afghanistan

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:36:36 -0500

As the Obama administration assesses American troop numbers in Afghanistan, the senior U.S. Army general training Afghan security forces says the White House should also double the size of the Afghan army and police.

Karzai's Moment of Opportunity

Council on Foreign Relations — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:29:07 -0500

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad says the Obama administration must determine how to use its leverage to help shape a competent government in Kabul.

How We Can Win in Afghanistan

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:22:51 -0500

Max Boot argues that success in Afghanistan depends on a cohesive counterinsurgency--rather than a counterterrorism--strategy.

Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:47:12 -0500

Memorandum of Understanding

CFR-Politico Online Chat on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:27:06 -0500

Max Boot, CFR senior fellow for national security studies, discusses U.S. strategy in Afghanistan online with Politico readers.

East Asian Seas Action Plan

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:12:36 -0500

Plan

Northwest Pacific Action Plan

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:09:11 -0500

Plan

South Asian Seas Action Plan

Council on Foreign Relations — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:06:16 -0500

Plan