Katherine Tiedemann is a program associate at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. President Obama has shown his willingness to continue President Bush’s method for combating militancy on the Pakistani side of the Afghan/Pakistan border, ordering CIA-piloted QM-1 Predator drones to strike militant targets in Pakistan approximately once a week since he took office.
Tonight at approximately 8 pm EST I will be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss President Obama’s first major overseas trip, the G-20 Economic Summit as well as the NATO Summit — which will likely focus on the President’s newly released Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy.
The New America Foundation is hosting today the first in a series of Bernard L. Schwartz Economic Symposia from 8:45 am – 1:00 pm EST.
Juan Cole has just published a new book about America’s interaction with the Middle East, called Engaging the Muslim World.
This post was written anonymously by a former investment banker. As a former investment banker, I know that my views on the taxation of bonuses will be immediately suspect. So let me start by stating unequivocally that many on Wall Street and in the global financial services sector have acted in an indefensible manner.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsian and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Davos. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the administration is reconsidering President Obama’s campaign promise to declare that the Armenians were victims of a genocide during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire nearly one hundred years ago.
You may have seen that Carlos Lozada of the Washington Post highlighted “The Autonomy Rule” as a new conceptualization of American foreign policy framing in his “Big Ideas” column on Sunday.
Lawrence B. Wilkerson was chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and is chairman of the New America Foundation/U.S.-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative. There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S.
Katherine Tiedemann is a program associate at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. I have to push back on Ben Katcher‘s previous post on several points.
A quick follow up to my last post on Afghanistan. Frederick Kagan penned an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in October 2007 called “Spend Whatever It Takes to Win the War on Terror.