Friday, July 17, 2009

[RED DEMOCRATICA] The World This Week: Clinton to India - Kashmir - Iraq - more

 

From the Council on Foreign Relations

July 17, 2009

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In this Issue:

Widening the India Relationship

Kashmir and South Asian Security

Iraqi Kurdistan's Looming Crisis


Widening the India Relationship

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to India with an opportunity to spur improving relations further, says CFR's Evan Feigenbaum. The emphasis should be on strengthening bilateral trade, energy, and nonproliferation ties, he says. Read more

CFR Meeting Audio, Video, Transcript: A Conversation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, moderated by Richard Haass

Media Conference Call Audio: Evan Feigenbaum discusses Secretary Clinton's upcoming trip to India with Edward Alden

Foreign Affairs: "India's Fortune," by Edward Luce

Op-ed: "Will Hillary's Gambit Work?" by Peter Beinart, (Daily Beast)

Foreign Affairs: "The End of the Affair? Washington's Cooling Passion for New Delhi," by Sumit Ganguly and Paul Kapur

Article: "Developing India's Foreign Policy 'Software,'" by Daniel Markey (Asia Policy)

Foreign Affairs: "A Hegemon's Coming of Age," by Walter Russell Mead

CFR experts on U.S. Foreign Policy, India

Kashmir and South Asian Security

As Indian and Pakistani leaders consider resuming peace talks, five South Asia experts, Daniel Markey, Raja Mohan, Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Howard Schaffer, and Farooq Kathwari, assess the importance of solving the Kashmir dispute in relation to U.S. security interests in the region. Many caution any U.S. role should be discreet. Read more

Policy Options Paper: "From AfPak to PakAf-A Response to the New U.S. Strategy for South Asia," by Daniel Markey

Foreign Affairs: "Flipping the Taliban-How to Win in Afghanistan," by Fotini Christia and Michael Semple

Backgrounder on Kashmir militant extremists

Foreign Affairs: "Lions and Jackals," by Haider Ali Hussein Mullick

Backgrounder on Terrorism and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)

CFR experts on Pakistan, Afghanistan

Iraqi Kurdistan's Looming Crisis

Daniel Serwer, a conflict prevention specialist on Iraq, says a serious territorial dispute has developed between the Iraqi central government and Kurdish authorities. A crucial U.S. military "balancing" role will end when troops depart next year, he says. Read more

Contingency Planning Memorandum: "Reversal in Iraq," by Stephen Biddle

Article: "Stability in Iraqi Kurdistan- Reality or Mirage?" by Lydia Khalil

Interactive: Timeline on the Iraq war

Daily Analysis: "A Shaky Iraq's First Sovreign Step"

CFR experts on Iraq

 
CUBA: What Everyone Needs to Know

A new book by CFR's Director for Latin America Studies Julia Sweig provides a straightforward guide to Cuba's politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting role in the global community. The book is a part of Oxford's new What Everyone Needs to Know series and is designed to be a comprehensive, accessible resource on the unique history of Cuba since Spanish colonization. Learn more about CUBA: What Everyone Needs to Know by clicking here.

 
 
This Week on ForeignAffairs.com

The July/August issue of Foreign Affairs is now available online and on newsstands. Browse the latest articles here.

Also on ForeignAffairs.com: Special features such as interactive discussions with authors, essential reading lists by the experts, and author updates on timely topics in the news. To receive these exclusive updates not found in the print magazine, sign up here for Foreign Affairs' weekly eNewsletter.

 
 
CFR Experts in the News

Vietnam (7/20): Leslie Gelb remembers Robert McNamara, in Time Magazine.

Energy (7/13): Isobel Coleman and Congressman Steve Israel discuss solar villages, on Huffington Post.

U.S. Policy (7/13): Jeb Bush, Mack McLarty, and Edward Alden discuss immigration reform, in the LA Times.

Somalia (7/13): Steven Simon discusses Islamic militants in Somalia, in the New York Times.

China (7/9): Jerome Cohen argues that "mainland rights lawyers are risking careers," in the South China Morning Post.

Economics (7/9): Amity Shlaes compares today's economic policy with that of the 1980s, on Bloomberg.com.

NATO (7/9): James Goldgeier discusses NATO's 60th anniversary, in the Harvard International Review.

Russia (7/6): Charles Ferguson and Amitai Etzioni consider a deal between the U.S. and Russia, on the Huffington Post.

 
 

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