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Former Treasury Secretary Geithner to join Council on Foreign Relations
Reuters/Reuters – Outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner arrives for the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 21, 2013. REUTERS/Win McNamee/Pool Reuters | Feb 6, 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Treasury Secretary Timothy … Continue reading →
John Glaser on RT’s CrossTalk
DC Editor John Glaser appeared on RT’s CrossTalk with Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Charles A. Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
We’re Not Leaving Afghanistan
Politicians technically use the same language as us, but many of their words have very different meanings. In last week’s vice presidential debates, for example, Joe Biden said, “We are leaving [Afghanistan]. We are leaving in 2014, period. Period.” Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations reminds us how the words “leaving” or “withdrawal” mean something ...
Romney, Candidate for Power
Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations lists Mitt Romney’s apparent foreign policy principles vis-a-vis his foreign policy speech from yesterday. In part, Zenko’s impressions are compatible with what I wrote about Romney’s speech: that it suggested little to no substantive difference with that of Obama’s. Zenko writes that “Romney’s proposed foreign policy is ...
America’s Empire of Bases Gets More Expensive
In Foreign Affairs, Alexander Cooley writes about how a less unipolar world is prompting competition for foreign expansion among the great powers, particularly the US, Russia, and China in the Central Asian countries. And it means the American Empire is costing a lot more. Most dramatically, in 2009, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kyrgyzstan, host to ...
As Washington Aids the Syrian Opposition…
Ed Husain, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations: In the Syrian opposition, it’s no exaggeration to say that there are Saudi Salafis, as well as al-Qaeda elements, and others who are included toward more extreme versions of religiosity present in that conflict. Given that we don’t really know who the Syrian ...
Even the Establishment Doesn’t Want War With Iran
Leslie Gelb, President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has a piece at the Daily Beast which warns not just against starting a war with Iran, but against “letting a bunch of ignorant, sloppy-thinking politicians and politicized foreign-policy experts draw ‘red line’ ultimatums” and march us hyperventilating into an unprovoked preemptive ...
Israeli Rule of Law for Palestinians Under Occupation
What Palestinians living under occupation face on a daily basis is often overlooked. There is this entirely false conception popular among Joe Smoes as well as policy wonks that the conflict consists of two equal sides and an elusive solution. Elliot Abrams, senior fellow at the revolving door institute the Council on Foreign Relations, for ...
The Cherry-Picking Fantasy Land of Elliot Abrams
At the blog for the Council on Foreign Relations, Elliot Abrams concludes that people who think illegal settlement construction hinders the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are not living “in the real world.” Abrams has argued before, amazingly, that settlements in the West Bank are “not a critical issue” (to which I responded). In this latest fantasy ...
Tuesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for March 15th, 2011: The Washington Post: Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Ray Takeyh calls for the U.S. to “empower the Green Movement.” Takeyh acknowledges that Russian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern allies are unlikely to support tighter sanctions and says that “it would be rash ...
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