Photo credit: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/flyingwithfish/files/2009/08/jfk_tsa_021.jpg Anya Landau French is director of research for the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative. Responding to the attempted bombing of a U.S.
(This post also appears at The Race for Iran.) Jay Solomon reports that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry is considering what would be the highest-level American visit to Tehran in thirty years. The White House has endorsed such a trip.
Over at the Lowy Institute‘s blog, The Interpreter, I found a link to a Boston Globe assembly of the 50 best news photographs of the decade. I’ve added the photo above as a reminder of the “hope” that many people have for what President Obama can deliver in the next decade.
The New America Foundation/American Strategy Program and The American Interest are teaming up to host a a policy forum in snow-recovering Washington D.C. today to assess the Obama administration’s performance on major national security and domestic priorities after one year in office.
The New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative is hosting the New America Foundation’s first every sing-along policy discussion/performance featuring Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela. Carlos will be joined by New America Foundation Senior Fellow and New York Times Senior Writer Tim Golden as well as Washington Post Columnist and Associate Editor Eugene Robinson.
One of the most striking aspects of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit to Washington last week was the attention paid to Turkey’s increasingly active role in the Middle East.
Yesterday, the New America Foundation hosted a public forum which considered whether a coherent strategy or “Obama Doctrine” is emerging after nearly one year of President Obama’s presidency.
Photo credit: Carly/Hoboken Now Anya Landau French is director of research for the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative and contributes regularly to the Havana Note.
Last Monday – the same day that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Washington to meet with President Obama – ten United States senators wrote the letter below to Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States Nabi Sensoy – expressing concern about the recent deterioration of relations between Turkey and Israel.
Is it too early in the Obama Administration to start using the phrase “Obama Doctrine” or is a clear vision and accompanying strategy emerging? Between laying out his strategy for the war in Afghanistan last week and delivering a surprising oration on the Just War tradition upon receiving his Nobel Peace Prize this week, a…
