Recent Articles
JUN 2, 2010 • Article
Foundations Are Free to Innovate
Charitable and philanthropic foundations hold a uniquely privileged position in society. With the right mix of daring and rigor they can spark real creativity among ...
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?
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...