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AMERICA'S ELUSIVE SEARCH FOR ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE
Aaron David Miller
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
05/08/2008
My book The Much Too Promised Land had a very strange origin in the sense that I really never intended to write it. I "resigned" from the State Department in January 2003. Only two secretaries of state in the history of the republic have...
LOS ZETAS: THE RUTHLESS ARMY SPAWNED BY A MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL
George W. Grayson
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
05/02/2008
Drug-related violence in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, the major portal for U.S.-Mexican commerce, left the city of 350,000 without a police chief until printing-shop owner Alejandro Dominguez Coello valiantly accepted the post on the morning of June 8,...
CHINA AND THE WEST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Warren I. Cohen
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
05/01/2008
I want to talk about rising China and the United States. To start with a couple obvious points about the rise of Chinese power in the twenty-first century, the most obvious is that we are talking about a resurrection rather than a new or...
AN ISRAELI VIEW OF THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CHALLENGE
Efraim Inbar
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
04/25/2008
My thinking on Iran is more or less mainstream thinking in Israel, what many Israelis within the defense and foreign policy establishments feel, even if they say it in a more diplomatic way.
Today's Iran is multi-layered. It is an imperial...
ROBERT KAPLAN ON THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER
Trudy Kuehner
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
04/25/2008
Mr. Kaplan began by offering observations based on his recent trip to India, from which he had just returned. While there, he met with the chiefs of the army and navy, the foreign and finance ministers, and numerous other...
CHINA'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST A History Institute for Teachers
Trudy Kuehner
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
04/25/2008
On March 1-2, 2008, FPRI's Wachman Center presented a weekend of discussion on China's Encounter with the West for 45 teachers from 21 states across the country, held at and co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia...
CHINA'S EARLY ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WEST: A HISTORY IN REVERSE
Andrew Wilson
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
04/03/2008
I am going to look at the history of China's encounters with the West in reverse order, beginning with the more familiar storyline of China as a weak and battered power in the modern era and closing with a different model from the premodern era.
Many of the causes...
KOSOVO: THE REVENGE OF CNN AND THE POLITICS OF EMOTION
Michael Radu
Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.fpri.org
04/01/2008
To paraphrase Talleyrand, the invention and recognition of a "state" called Kosovo by the United States and Brussels in February was worse than gross ignorance, it was a mistake. Every Western political delusion since the end of the Cold War was at the...
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