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MAY 27, 2010 Article

Dealing with Iran: "Missed Opportunities" and "Holding Contradictory Ideas at the Same Time"

How, ask David Speedie and Gary Sick, can we move the U.S.-Iran dialogue beyond the current mutually recriminatory stalemate?

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotopakismo/4136338566/">Paco Alcantara</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAY 19, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Obama's ASEAN Policy Looks Auspicious

American diplomacy in Southeast Asia should strengthen ASEAN's regional prominence and push for an international forum to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

MAY 13, 2010 Article

Book Review: "The End of the Free Market" by Ian Bremmer

State capitalism differs from free-market capitalism in that politics rather than profit is the main driver of decision-making. For this reason, it threatens to curtail ...

Adm. Mullen testifies at Senate Armed Services Committee  <br> CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/4325376893/in/set-72157623335956302/" target=_blank">DoD photo, Cherie Cullen</a>

MAY 4, 2010 Article

This Is about Leadership: The Circular Debate of the Military's Gay Ban

In August 2010, three months after writing this article, West Point Cadet Katherine Miller publicly announced she was gay and resigned from West Point, saying that "...

APR 30, 2010 Article

Rise of the Rest

The Council's "Rise of the Rest" project focuses not on decline of existing powers but on the emergence of others. The U.S. should accept ...

Map of Syria  (CIA Factbook)

APR 26, 2010 Article

Pursuing a "Syrian Strategy" for Arab-Israeli Peace

A Syrian-Israeli Peace Treaty brokered by the U.S. could create the conditions for the kind of confidence-building measures between Israel and the Palestinian National ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noborder/2494723189/">Sara Prestianni</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Fate of the Paperless

Detention centers are on the rise as a means to control illegal immigration, while reports of human rights abuse and rising financial costs call into ...

Presidents Obama, Abbas, and Prime Minister Netanyahu<br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Trilateral" target="_blank">Official White House photo by Samantha Appleton</a>

APR 13, 2010 Article

Incentivizing Peace in the Middle East: A New Role for the United States

The issue in the Israel/Palestinian conflict is not a lack of desire for peace, but the political inability to achieve it. The basic contours ...

APR 9, 2010 Article

The Georgia-Russia War in South Ossetia: The Russian View

Published by the Moscow-based Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, "The Tanks of August" is a must read, as it offers both factual and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colodio/2908606928/">Claude Estebe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 8, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rage against Virtual Rape

It is up to the Japanese to decide what regulations the nation wants to prescribe for sex industry software.