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[RED DEMOCRATICA] The World This Week: Afghan Elections - Mideast Peace - Iraq - more

August 21, 2009

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		In this Issue:
		Afghan Elections: A Perilous Time
		Overcoming the Mideast Peace Rut
		Reversal in Iraq

Afghan Elections: A Perilous Time

CFR's Daniel Markey says that Pakistan, confronting its own Taliban insurgency, has an interest in seeing Afghanistan's presidential elections yield a legitimate government that brings stability. Read more

Op-ed: "In Afghanistan, the Choice is Ours," by Richard Haass (New York Times)

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

Interview: Ahmed Rashid on the presidential election in Afghanistan

Media Conference Call Transcript, Audio: Stephen Biddle and Gideon Rose discuss U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

Article: "Karzai in His Labyrinth," by Elizabeth Rubin (New York Times Magazine)

Interview with Stephen Biddle on the U.S. commitment to improving Afghan governance

Op-ed: "Obama's Latest Foreign Slip," by Leslie Gelb (The Daily Beast)

Foreign Affairs: "Can the Right War be Won? Defining American Interests in Afghanistan," by Steven Simon

CFR experts on Afghanistan, Pakistan

Overcoming the Mideast Peace Rut

CFR Mideast expert Steven Cook says Egypt and the United States have moved to end their estrangement but haven't made much progress in advancing Arab-Israeli peace. Read more

Interactive: Crisis Guide - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Foreign Affairs: "Adrift on the Nile," by Steven Cook

Op-ed: "Why Israel Is Nervous," by Elliott Abrams (Wall Street Journal)

Foreign Affairs: "Hamas 2.0 - The Islamic Resistance Movement Grows Up," by Michael Bröning

Op-ed: "Hamas - U.S. Diplomacy's Final Frontier," by Peter Beinart

Book: Restoring the Balance - A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, by experts at CFR and the Saban Center at Brookings

CFR experts on Egypt, Middle East

Reversal in Iraq

Baghdad experienced its worst spate of attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from major Iraqi cities in June. CFR's Stephen Biddle assesses four scenarios under which U.S. progress in Iraq could be derailed. Read more

Op-ed: "Foregoing Limited Force - The George W. Bush Administration's Decision Not to Attack Ansar Al-Islam," by Micah Zenko (Journal of Strategic Studies)

Book: War of Necessity, War of Choice - A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars, by Richard Haass

Op-ed: "The Kurdish Issue Flares Up in Iraq," by Daniel Senor (Wall Street Journal)

Article: "Stability in Iraqi Kurdistan - Reality or Mirage?" by Lydia Khalil (Brookings Institution)

Gwertzman Interview: "The Crisis Between Kurds and Iraqi Government Needs U.S. Mediation," with Daniel Serwer

Interactive: Timeline on the Iraq war

CFR experts on Iraq

	New Memorandum on Political Instability in Egypt
	CFR's Center for Preventive Action (CPA) published its fourth Contingency Planning Memorandum, "Political Instability in Egypt," by Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies Steven Cook. The memorandum assesses the possibility of a troubled leadership succession or an Islamist push for political power in Egypt, the implications for the United States, and policy steps the U.S. government might take. Past memorandums include: "Crisis Between Ukraine and Russia" by Steven Pifer, "Reversal in Iraq" by Stephen Biddle, and "If the U.S. Dollar Plummets" by Brad Setser.

	September/October Issue of Foreign Affairs
	The newest issue of Foreign Affairs is now on newsstands. In this issue: "An Agenda for NATO - Toward a Global Security Web," by Zbigniew Brzezinski "Low and Behold - Making the Most of Cheap Oil," by Edward Morse "Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth - How to Salvage the Climate Conference," by Michael Levi "The Other Climate Changers - Why Black Carbon and Ozone Also Matter," by Jessica Seddon Wallack and Veerabhadran Ramanathan "The Low-Carbon Diet - How the Market Can Curb Climate Change," by Joel Kurtzman Visit ForeignAffairs.com to view more articles from this issue and the magazine's web-only resources.

	CFR Experts in the News
	Nonproliferation 8/20: Charles Ferguson writes about Cold War lessons for today's nuclear disarmament debate, on Atlantic-Community.org U.S. Strategy 8/20: Paul Lettow writes about how the U.S. can create a coherent strategic planning process, in the American Interest Russia (8/19): James Goldgeier on "A Realistic Reset with Russia," in Policy Review. Egypt (8/19): Elliott Abrams argues that support for democracy and human rights should be present in U.S. foreign policy toward Egypt, in the Weekly Standard.

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