Friday, December 11, 2009

[RED DEMOCRATICA] The World This Week - Obama's Nobel - Copenhagen - Afghanistan - more

 

From the Council on Foreign Relations

December 11, 2009

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In this Issue:

Obama's Nobel Obstacles

Copenhagen's Many Agendas

NATO's Afghan Deployment

Hope of North Korea's Return to the Six Party Talks


Obama's Nobel Obstacles

President Obama, a newly minted Nobel Peace Prize winner, now faces the daunting task of delivering on a range of challenges, especially nuclear nonproliferation and climate change, says CFR's Michael Levi. Read more

First Take: "In Oslo, Obama Both Idealist and Realist" by Richard Haass

Foreign Affairs: "From Hope to Audacity - Appraising Obama's Foreign Policy" by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Backgrounder: U.S. opinion on the principles of world order

Podcast: "The Significance of President Obama's Nobel" with Walter Russell Mead

Expert Brief: "Obama at the UN - The Burden of the Anti-Bush" by Stewart Patrick

Foreign Affairs: "Renewing American Leadership" by Barack Obama

Book: Power Rules - How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy by Leslie Gelb

CFR experts on U.S. Strategy and Politics, Grand Strategy

Copenhagen's Many Agendas

The UN conference on climate change is supposed to produce new targets for emissions reductions, but experts say major countries are at odds on the ultimate goal of a new framework. This Backgrounder looks at some of their positions. Read more

Expert Brief: "Assessing China's Carbon-Cutting Proposal" by Michael Levi

Op-ed: "A Thoughtless Tax" by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (Times of India)

Interactive: Crisis Guide - Climate Change

Op-ed: "Five Stories to Watch" from Copenhagen by Michael Levi (Politico)

Foreign Affairs: "Climate of Extremes - Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know" by Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr.

CFR Symposium: "Countdown to Copenhagen - What's Next for Climate Change?" directed by Michael Levi

Backgrounder: World public opinion on the environment

Independent Task Force Report: Confronting Climate Change - A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy by Michael Levi, George Pataki, and Thomas Vilsack

More CFR resources on energy and the environment

CFR experts on Energy, Climate Change

NATO's Afghan Deployment

NATO's European members are more worried about a reassertive Russia than the threat posed by Afghanistan, says expert Robert Hunter. This has become the basis for an "unspoken bargain" on supporting the Afghan war effort, he says. Read more

Op-ed: "No Exit" by Richard Haass (Newsweek)

Foreign Affairs: "The Soviet Victory that Never Was - What the United States Can Learn from the Soviet War in Afghanistan" by Nikolas Gvosdev

Op-ed: "Despite Some Questions, Obama's Afghan Policy is Sound" by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times)

Interview: Five experts, including CFR's Richard Haass and Daniel Markey assess Obama's Afghan surge.

Op-ed: "Obama Got it Right" by Leslie Gelb (The Daily Beast)

Interactive: Timeline on the U.S. war in Afghanistan

Op-ed: "America Needs France" by Walter Russell Mead (American Interest)

Foreign Affairs: "The Art of Afghan Alliance Building" by Kathy Gannon

Op-ed: "An Army Takes Time to Build" by James Danly (New York Times)

CFR experts on Afghanistan, Defense Strategy

Hope of North Korea's Return to the Six Party Talks

Northeast Asia expert Evans Revere says that following U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth's recent trip to Pyongyang, North Korea may potentially reopen the door to Six Party talks given time. Read more

Interactive: Crisis Guide - The Korean Peninsula

Testimony: "North Korea's Nuclear and Missile Tests and Six-Party Talks - Where Do We Go From Here?" by Scott Snyder

Interview: "Guarding the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal" with Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Commander, Air Force Global Strike Command

Council Special Report: Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea by Paul Stares and Joel Wit

Interactive: Global Governance Monitor on nuclear proliferation

Foreign Affairs: "Changing North Korea - An Information Campaign Can Beat the Regime" by Andrei Lankov

Backgrounder: World opinion on nuclear proliferation

Op-ed: "Pyongyang Duck" by Paul Stares (Los Angeles Times)

Gwertzman Interview: "Wariness on Bilateral Process with North Korea" with Michael Green of Georgetown University

CFR experts Northeast Asia, Proliferation

 
Interactive Guide to Economic Crisis Wins Emmy

CFR's interactive, "Crisis Guide: The Global Economy," received an Emmy award in the "New Approaches to Business and Financial Reporting" category, the second Emmy for the series. Crisis Guides use audio, video, imagery, and text to illustrate the world's most complex issues on an online, interactive platform. The series also includes guides on: Darfur, the first guide to win an Emmy, Climate Change, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and the Korean Peninsula.

 
 
CFR Report on Intervention to Stop Mass Atrocities

The United States must improve its responsiveness to genocide and mass atrocities and absent UN action, it should make clear a willingness to act on its own, writes Matthew Waxman in the new Council Special Report titled "Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities - International Norms and U.S. Policy."

 
 
CFR Experts in the News

Burma (12/9): Joshua Kurlantzick questions Obama's re-engagement of Burma, in The New Republic.

Syria (12/8): Mohamad Bazzi says improving relations between Israel and Syria is more feasible for Obama than the Israel-Palestine conflict, on the GlobalPost.

Copenhagen (12/8): Amity Shlaes argues that by raising the cost of production, an environmental treaty at Copenhagen could hurt youth employment, on Bloomberg.com.

Colombia (12/7): Max Boot and Richard Bennet argue that Colombia "has few rivals in the annals of 20th-century nation-building," in the Weekly Standard.

Health (12/7): Laurie Garrett and Dana March point out that vaccinations against the flu have long term health benefits that should not be ignored, in Newsweek.

Dubai (12/4): Sebastian Mallaby is alarmed by the global financial markets reaction to the bankruptcy of Dubai World, in the Washington Post.

China (12/4): Jerome Cohen and Eva Pils address the fate of China's rights lawyers, in the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Lebanon (12/4): Mohamad Bazzi says that Hezbollah remains the dominant military and political force in Lebanon, in the Christian Science Monitor.

 
 

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