Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
U.S.–India relations have continued to improve since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to the United States in November 2009. This November, President Obama will visit India as part of the continuing transformation in bilateral ties.
The growing imbalance between high-growth economies—led by China—and low growth ones will have increasingly profound implications for trade and investment patterns and the global distribution of power.
In recent months, the United States and China have gone through a rough patch in bilateral relations. Yet such setbacks represent a very short period in a much longer timeframe of U.S.-China cooperation.
Coalition strategy in Afghanistan has reached an impasse: tactical successes will not defeat the Taliban while Pakistan offers sanctuary, nor can security be “Afghanized” by a government that lacks legitimacy and is irreparably unpopular.
The Middle East has long been a regional battlefield of competing interests among the great powers. In the current international environment, however, the United States, Russia, and, to a lesser extent, China share multiple mutual interests in the region.
The Iraqi parliamentary elections on March 7 will be a critical test for the young democracy. Ad Melkert, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq, assessed the latest situation on the ground in the run up to the elections and what the election means for the country's political future.
The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament recommends practical policymaking options designed to galvanize action by governments to achieve progress on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, including positive outcomes at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
In a special live broadcast of the BBC’s prestigious The World Tonight, leading foreign policy experts assess President Obama's first year in office and the chief challenges that lie ahead: strengthening the nonproliferation regime, climate change, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Foreign Affairs Minister Petro Poroshenko discussed Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy challenges ahead of the presidential election in January, stressing Ukraine’s strengthened democratic processes and the importance of continued dialogue about the new and open European security architecture.
Positive signals from the United States would keep climate change negotiations moving forward, allowing the outcome of Copenhagen to represent a significant milestone on the path to a comprehensive deal.
