On February 13, the Carnegie South Asia Program explored the Pakistani military’s possible reactions to various post-election scenarios.
Bernard Gwertzman from the Council on Foreign Relations interviews Carnegie Endowment's senior associate, Ashley J. Tellis.
In early 2003, Carnegie President Jessica Tuchman Mathews and her colleagues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace were among the few foreign policy experts in Washington trying to stem the rising tide in favor of invading Iraq. The Washington Examiner profiled Mathews about Iraq, U.S. foreign policy, and her work at the Endowment over the past ten years. Since her arrival, the Endowment has transformed itself from a think tank on international issues to the first truly multinational — ultimately global — think tank.
Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russian strategic flights would permanently resume with the mission of protecting Russia. Protect it from whom? Although Putin has never identified the enemy that sparked the resumption of these flights after a fifteen-year hiatus, implicitly the antagonist is the only other country with a similar air capability—the United States.
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Stephen J. Hadley discussed the Bush administration's efforts to promote economic growth and disease prevention in Africa and commented on the president's upcoming travels to Africa and his Smart Development Policy.
It would have been fine, of course, for a political scientist or a journalist to make the observation that Hillary Clinton stood little chance in the South Carolina Democratic primary running against a black candidate. And it would have raised no eyebrows if he or she drew comparisons between Barack Obama's win and Jesse Jackson's 1988 victory. But Bill Clinton is a master politician who calibrates the exact effect of his words upon an audience. And as Clinton well knew, linking an opponent to Jackson, as former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms used to do rdifficultegularly in his campaigns, is a surefire way to stir some white voters up against him.
The biggest economic threat from China isn't its dominance of manufacturing or its artificially pegged currency. It's that the world's soon-to-be third-largest economy is being fueled by financial markets that remain essentially--and dangerously--lawless.
On January 25, Carnegie Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis presented the findings of his Carnegie Report, Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance, at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. Tellis and Carnegie Visiting Scholar Frederic Grare provided first-hand commentary following President Musharraf's keynote speech at RUSI.


























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