[RED DEMOCRATICA] The World This Week - Berlin Wall Anniversary - Obama's Trip to Asia - Afghanistan - More

 

November 6, 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website. In this Issue: Fall of the Wall and Grand Strategy Boosting Ties with a Rising Asia Karzai's Moment of Opportunity A "Unique Opportunity" in Iran Fall of the Wall and Grand Strategy The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago marked a triumph of the U.S. strategy of containment. But CFR's James Goldgeier writes that policymakers since then have struggled to establish new strategies for confronting the world's complex challenges. Read more Special Edition Podcast: Bernard Gwertzman and Serge Schmemann recall their role in reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall for the New York Times Foreign Affairs: "Suicide of the East? 1989 and the Fall of Communism" by Philip Zelikow Book: America Between the Wars - From 11/9 to 9/11 by James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet Foreign Affairs: "What to Read on Communism" by Stephen Kotkin Book: Russian Foreign Policy -The Return of Great Power Politics by Jeffrey Mankoff Foreign Affairs: "Russia Reborn - Reimagining Moscow's Foreign Policy" by Dmitri Trenin CFR experts on Europe/Russia Boosting Ties with a Rising Asia Ahead of President Obama's Asia trip, CFR's Sheila Smith, Joshua Kurlantzick, Elizabeth Economy, and Scott Snyder headline the security and economic issues that will dominate his agenda. Read more Council Special Report: The United States in the New Asia by Evan Feigenbaum and Robert Manning CFR Meeting Summary: "China 2025 Conference" directed by Elizabeth Economy Geographics Blog: "China's Dollar Addiction" by CFR's Center for Geoeconomic Studies Foreign Affairs: "Tokyo's Trials - Can the DPJ Change Japan?" by Yoichi Funibashi Chart Book: Quarterly update on the foreign exchange reserves in Brazil, Russia, India, and China by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies CFR experts on China, Northeast Asia Karzai's Moment of Opportunity Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad says the Obama administration must determine how to use its leverage to help shape a competent government in Kabul. Read more Transcript: CFR-Politico online chat on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan with Max Boot Op-ed: "Pull the Plug on the Afghan Surge" by Steven Simon and Charles Kupchan (Financial Times) Interview with U.S. Commanding General in Afghanistan Richard Formica on troop levels in Afghanistan Media Conference Call Audio, Transcript: Max Boot and Daniel Markey discuss their recent trips to the AfPak Region, U.S. strategy there Op-ed: "Is There a Middle Way?" by Stephen Biddle (The New Republic) Foreign Affairs: "Our Man in Kabul - What Hamid Karzai's Rise to Power Means for How He Will Govern Now" by James Dobbins Op-ed: "Give McChrystal a Fighting Chance" by Max Boot (Weekly Standard) CFR experts on Afghanistan, Defense Strategy A "Unique Opportunity" in Iran This week at CFR's New York headquarters, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei stressed the need for additional dialogue with Iran and expressed hope for a breakthrough on the country's nuclear program. Read more Op-ed: "Iran's Nuclear Diversion" by Ray Takeyh (Washington Post) Interactive: Global Governance Monitor on nuclear nonproliferation Book: Guardians of the Revolution - Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs by Ray Takeyh Independent Task Force Report: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy by Charles Ferguson, William Perry, and Brent Scowcroft Interactive: Timeline on U.S.-Iran relations Backgrounder: Iran's nuclear program CFR experts on Iran

Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action Overstretched by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States must improve its ability to manage future crises and avoid new military commitments, says a new Council Special Report by Paul Stares and Micah Zenko. Sponsored by CFR's Center for Preventive Action, Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action provides policymakers with an actionable roadmap to make U.S. prevention architecture more effective at identifying, averting, and responding to potential crises abroad.     The United States in the New Asia A new Council Special Report by Evan Feigenbaum and Robert Manning warns that the United States risks marginalization in Asia unless it takes a more active role in regional organizations. The United States in the New Asia, published by CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance program, recommends that the United States work more closely with China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia on vital economic and transnational issues and advocates increased bilateral engagement in Southeast Asia, especially with Indonesia and Vietnam.     CFR Experts in the News Nigeria (11/4): John Campbell writes that under the presidency of Umaru Yar'adu, Nigeria is moving away from its corrupt system, on the Huffington Post. Israel (11/3): Amity Shlaes says that the Israeli military has played a role in Israel's record of innovation, on Bloomberg.com. Afghanistan (11/2): Walter Russell Mead says it is no surprise the U.S. has made deals with warlords, on the Daily Beast. Conflict Assessment (11/2): Leslie Gelb on stalled U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, on the Daily Beast. Terrorism (11/2): Max Boot argues that success in Afghanistan depends on a cohesive counterinsurgency—rather than a counterterrorism—strategy, in Commentary. Pakistan (11/2): Walter Russell Mead says there's no doubt that Pakistan is the most dangerous problem in U.S. foreign policy, in the American Interest. U.S. Strategy (10/30): Micah Zenko says "don't rush the Afghan debate," in the Christian Science Monitor.

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