U.S. Secretary of State Clinton is in Moscow to attend a Quartet meeting to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and to meet with President Medvedev about the successor agreement to START and Iran’s nuclear program. Michele Dunne, Deepti Choubey, and James Collins discuss Clinton’s agenda in Moscow and prospects of U.S.-Russian cooperation on key issues.
Representatives from the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union issued a joint condemnation of the East Jerusalem housing expansion that has strained U.S.-Israeli ties and threatened the continuation of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians. In a new video Q&A, Michele Dunne analyzes the Obama administration’s approach to the peace process and the repercussions of the settlement row.
- More on U.S.-Israel Relations:
- Israel’s Challenge to the U.S. [op-ed]
In the March edition of the International Economic Bulletin, Uri Dadush explains that the crisis in Greece—and its possible spread to other Euro area countries—poses a significant risk to the global recovery.
- More from the International Economic Bulletin:
- The RMB: Myths and Tougher-to-Deal-With Realities
- Iran’s Economy in Turmoil
- Japan's Past and the U.S. Future
The recent tension between the United States and Israel is symptomatic of a larger change in U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration, writes Robert Kagan in the Washington Post. In the last year the United States has focused more on improving relations with its competitors and adversaries than solidifying relations with long-term allies.
Policy makers are scrambling to respond decisively to Yemen’s instability after the failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S. passenger jet was tied to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In the first of a new Carnegie series, Yemen: On the Brink, Sarah Phillips explains that there are limits to how much foreign intervention can accomplish. Yemen’s political system needs to become less centralized and more inclusive.
Carnegie presents a
unique and frequently updated analysis of the elections and their evolving outcome, with profiles of the six major Iraqi political alliances and their most significant members, taking you inside this historic event as it continues to play out.
Mar 19, 2010 – Washington, D.C.
On March 7th, Iraqis went to the polls to vote in their second free parliamentary elections. The subsequent government formation process will have implications on the stability of Iraq and the U.S. effort to withdraw combat forces.
Dmitri Trenin explained to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs that the time is ripe for the United States, Europe, and Russia to devise a security architecture for a new century—one capable of maintaining peace and stability on the European continent throughout the years to come.
Pakistan’s continued support for the terrorist group Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) threatens to undermine the delicate peace between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan.
Ashley Tellis warned the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs that if Pakistan’s policies do not change, the region could be plunged into conflict, with significant consequences for American interests abroad.
Over the next year, Egypt will hold three important elections.
Amr Hamzawy and Nathan Brown explain that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s reduced political engagement and increased focus on its traditional religious, educational, and social agenda may mark the loss of an opportunity for a more pluralistic political system in Egypt.
Marina Ottaway describes how the elections stand no chance of changing the distribution of power in the country.
The West views foreign elections as turning points that define the success or failure of a country’s democratization.
Marina Ottaway explains that elections are only small parts of much larger and more complicated stories: they do not cause power shifts, they can only reflect shifts that have already taken place.
The sovereign debt crisis in Greece, coupled with the loss of competitiveness in Spain, Ireland, and Italy, threaten the stability of the euro itself.
Uri Dadush and Moisés Naím suggest that the time has come for European policy makers to consider using moderate levels of inflation to help restore balance to the European economy.
The recent Colombian court decision to preserve a two-term limit for the presidency is a triumph for democracy, writes Robert Kagan and Aroop Mukharji in the Washington Post. By following the democratic process and allowing the courts to make the final decision, President Uribe has set a model for peaceful democratic transitions of power in a region plagued by hyper-presidencies.
In spite of a dramatic global recession which cost millions of workers their jobs, democratic governments have shown remarkable political resilience, write
Thomas Carothers and Zachary Davis. Concerns that struggling democracies would fall under the weight of the recession were unfounded, as frustrated citizens largely chose to express their anger through the democratic process rather than against it.
Turkey’s Islam-influenced government is engaged in a series of escalating conflicts with the country's powerful secular military establishment.
Henri Barkey explains that Turkey’s constitution, imposed by the military in 1982, must be redrafted if the country is to break out of the cycle of military and judicial interventions in Turkish politics.
The goal of nuclear superiority is unattainable. Instead,
James Acton suggests that the United States can enhance its security by giving nuclear-armed adversaries strong incentives for restraint in a crisis.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced the launch of the Euro–Atlantic Security Initiative (EASI), a two-year Commission to build the intellectual framework for an inclusive transatlantic security system for the 21st century. Co-chairs Sam Nunn in the United States, Igor Ivanov in Russia, and Wolfgang Ischinger in Belgium, discuss EASI's new role in addressing Euro-Atlantic security challenges.
