The week that former US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad was leaving the United Nations, I asked him to share his thoughts about American diplomacy, the UN as an institution, nation building and our brewing problems in Afghanistan at an event at the New America Foundation.
In the period between President Obama’s November 2008 victory at the polls and his taking office on January 20, 2009, members of Obama’s transition team began talking to military planners about various options that might be available for dealing with Somali pirates. In my estimation, this is smart planning by the Obama team.
Michael Lind, now my colleague at the New America Foundation but eleven years ago the Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine, wrote a great article in August 1998 titled “Washington Meal Ticket: How to Buy a Senator’s Smile.
This is a guest post by former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman.
My New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force colleague Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government negotiator who was at the table whenever any key progress was made in Israel-Palestine negotiations and then wrote the Israeli draft of the well-known Geneva Initiative, believes that there is no credible path forward on Israel-Palestine issues and the broader Middle…
No Team of Rivals on the economics side. The deep ideological divide that is emerging in the economics profession between those who worried about manic neoliberalism and Bob Rubin-style turbo-charged tilts towards an increasing unregulated finance industry is not hitting the Obama administration – because it is only hiring one side of that divide.
Ann Lewis, who has been one of the nation’s leading activists for women’s rights, and a long time adviser to and confidante of Hillary Clinton has just initiated a new non-profit organization called “No Limits.
The Editorial Board of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published an familiar attack on the military and political authorities that kept Guantanamo buffered from normal American legal processes. In a piece, titled “Guantanamo justice, evidence appalling“, the Jay Bookman on behalf of the editors writes: Army Lt. Col.
Interesting exchange with Madeleine Albright on US foreign policy over at National Journal: NJ: What do you foresee as Obama’s biggest foreign policy challenge? Albright: Well, it’s hard, I have to tell you, because there are some very, very serious issues out there, and I sometimes say it’s kind of like, “what’s the worst place…
I am standing down my protest against the lack of innovation and change in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s anachronistic and ineffective website.
