Events
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The United States, Russia, and the Future World Order
The administration of President Barack Obama sees the repair of the U.S. relationship with Russia as a major foreign policy objective, and has spent its first year ambitiously attempting to reset relations and place them on a more positive footing.
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Eliminating Nuclear Threats – A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers
The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament recommends practical policymaking options designed to galvanize action by governments to achieve progress on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, including positive outcomes at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
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Year Two of the Reset: What Can the U.S. Expect from Moscow?
The reset of U.S.-Russian relations by the Obama administration has led to significant improvements. The second year of the reset will likely see the conclusion of START, further cooperation on Afghanistan, and movement toward an inclusive European security system.
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BBC Live at Carnegie: Obama’s Foreign Policy—One Year On
In a special live broadcast of the BBC’s prestigious The World Tonight, leading foreign policy experts assess President Obama's first year in office and the chief challenges that lie ahead: strengthening the nonproliferation regime, climate change, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Iran, and Afghanistan.
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Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula
Food security is fast becoming a critical issue for Persian Gulf countries as they face three converging factors: tighter global food markets with strained export surpluses, a decline in domestic production, and continuous population growth.
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Climate Change: There is Life After Copenhagen
With governments, academics, and NGOs still digesting the results of the Copenhagen Summit, Washington’s senior G20 diplomats agreed that while progress had been made in Copenhagen, significant work remained to be done.
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Making the Next Bin Laden
Over the past eight years, al-Qaeda has experienced a metamorphosis. The man now poised to succeed Osama bin Laden, and the embodiment of the “New Al-Qaeda Man,” is Shaykh Abu Yahya al-Libi, who has enjoyed a meteoric rise into the senior ranks of al-Qaeda and has been integral in recalibrating al-Qaeda.
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Happy New Year? The World Economy in 2010
After the worst year of economic performance in recent memory, most projections show positive growth in 2010, but questions about the sustainability of the recovery remain central.
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Is Russia Losing the Caucasus?
The North Caucasus looks and feels more and more like Russia’s neighbor than a constituent part of the state. As the people in the region have become disappointed in local leaders and the Kremlin, many of them turn to Islam as their last hope to achieve structure and peace.
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Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative Launch
The hoped for undivided “Europe whole and free” of twenty years ago has today become a region in danger of seeing new lines divide the continent with the prospect of heightened tension for all. It will require adjustments and new thinking from all to recapture the promise of an undivided, secure, and prosperous region.
