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11/06/2008

FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT

In January, President-elect Barack Obama will be confronted with the longest list of severe challenges any president has faced in decades. Prioritizing among them will be even more important than usual. Carnegie’s experts endeavor to do just that. They separate good ideas from dead ends and go beyond widely agreed goals to describe how to achieve them.

How to Talk with Iran
Karim Sadjadpour prioritizes U.S. engagement with Iran on six critical issues: Iraq, Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, the Arab–Israeli conflict, energy, and terrorism.

Watch the Event: Strategic Engagement with Iran

Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
George Perkovich offers a three-step strategy for the United States to show Iran’s leaders that the more they advance enrichment capabilities, the less valuable cessation of those activities becomes for negotiating incentives packages.

Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic Engagement with Iran

Getting the Balance Right in Pakistan
Ashley Tellis explains that the next administration should develop a balanced strategy toward Pakistan that simultaneously strengthens the civilian government—the best hope for Pakistan’s long-term stability—without alienating the Pakistani army.

Middle East Economics: Engaging Pakistan

Stabilizing Afghanistan
As globalization spread dramatically over the last twenty years, migration expanded less rapidly than either trade or foreign investment. Yet migration remains contentious, often being blamed for income stagnation, even as some economists praise it as the fastest route to raising world incomes. Robert Lucas finds that the net impact of migration is positive for the migrants and high-income countries, and more gains are feasible. At the same time, he finds more ambiguous effects on developing countries, which may suffer from growing brain-drain.

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
George Perkovich outlines four security areas where the long-term project of abolishing nuclear weapons would best serve U.S. interests: preventing proliferation, preventing nuclear terrorism, reducing toward zero the threat of nuclear annihilation, and fostering new optimism for U.S. global leadership.

Future of Iraq: Arms Control in the Next Administration

Nuclear Energy Renaissance
Sharon Squassoni cautions that the next administration must address critical questions about the feasibility and safety of a nuclear power renaissance, and act to minimize current proliferation risks.

Turkish Politics: Is Nuclear Energy the Answer?

Sunset for the Two-State Solution?
Nathan Brown explains that the framework to support a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine has collapsed and will require a more viable and unified Palestinian leadership and less intrusive Israeli security in the West Bank.

Addressing the Crisis: Toward a Two-State Solution

U.S.-Russia Security Relations After Georgia
Rose Gottemoeller explains how agreements like the START and Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaties could help establish a new book of rules both the United States and Russia can embrace.

Addressing the Crisis: Seize the Superstructure

A Clear Strategic Vision for Asia
Douglas H. Paal presents key steps the United States should take to advance its interests in rising Asia, including developing new multilateral security and economic arrangements with China and India.

Addressing the Crisis: Engaging Asia

Is a League of Democracies a Good Idea?
Thomas Carothers explains that the proposed League of Democracies rests on a false assumption that democracies share sufficient common interests to work effectively together on a wide range of global issues and outlines steps the next U.S. president should take to bolster democracy promotion and foreign policy in general.

Addressing the Crisis: League of Democracies

U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change
William Chandler identifies practical, non treaty-based approaches that both the United States and China —the world's larges polluters—can take to cut emissions with little financial impact.

Addressing the Crisis: Breaking the U.S.-China Climate Suicide Pact

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