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February 15, 2011 / By Alison Giffen
Expeditionary Diplomacy Could Save Lives in Sudan
On February 7th, Southern Sudan's Referendum Commission officially announced that 99% of Southerners voted for secession. The international community has made extraordinary investments to prevent a reigniting of civil war between the north and south, but the question remains whether…Read More »

January 04, 2011 / By Gordon Adams, Matthew Leatherman
A Leaner and Meaner Defense
How to Cut the Pentagon’s Budget While Improving Its Performance Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman Reprinted by permission of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, (Jan/Feb 2011). Copyright (2011) by the Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. An op-ed summarizing this essay appeared in the…Read More »

July 28, 2010
The Future of S/CRS
As the long-awaited Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) proceeds through its summer schedule, there has been a lot of speculation about the future of one particular part of the State Department: the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and…Read More »

December 28, 2009 / By Corey Sobel
An African Union? The Shortcomings of Africa’s Strategy in Copenhagen
Leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa adopted a unified negotiating stance at the recently-completed climate change talks in Copenhagen. Before the talks began, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki said that "[w]e have to speak with one voice on climate change because the rest…Read More »

December 21, 2009 / By Allen Moore
If We’re Serious About the Millennium Development Goals, Let’s Get Serious About Family Planning
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted unanimously by the United Nations in 2000 to confront the world's major development challenges. There are eight MDGs with 21 sub-objectives to be achieved by 2015. Every single one is behind schedule-a product…Read More »

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