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Last week, the six-party negotiations (which include the United States, China, Russia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea) agreed on a second phase of a plan to denuclearize North Korea that has under discussion since 2005. This plan goes further than the agreed framework by requiring "disablement" of North Korean plutonium production facilities, but is troublingly silent on a few things.
The Iraq war will be the turning point that changes the basic parameters of our security picture for decades. The war's monopoly on our political energy, which has now stretched to five years -- an eon in a time of fast-moving global change -- is one of its greatest uncounted costs.
Virginia Representative Jim Moran is no stranger to controversy. And he now finds himself in midst of another one--over what he said about Jews, Iraq, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in an interview in the September-October issue of Tikkun magazine.
Many American commentators tend to identify Middle East democracy promotion as unwise, arguing that the Bush administration should have patiently promoted the growth of institutions, civil society, and the rule of law, instead of insisting on elections in Arab countries. This new canon seems reasonable but has three crucial flaws.
I salute the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and congratulate it on this important occasion, taking note of the significant contribution that NED has made to democracy worldwide. I would like to highlight what I believe are some of the main advances and achievements of democracy assistance over the past quarter-century and also to examine the challenging road ahead.
In June, a proposed immigration reform bill collapsed in the Senate. Before the critical vote, activist groups arguing that increased immigration damages the economy launched campaigns targeting senators sitting on the fence. The strategy worked, and many of the senators who supported immigration reform but ended up voting against the bill are up for re-election in 2008.
How high – and how fast – is China’s trade moving up the technology ladder? What are the causes and policy implications for China and the U.S. of China’s increasing export sophistication? On September 26, the Carnegie Endowment and the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution co-sponsored a discussion with three researchers from the US and China on these controversial topics.
Public Luncheon at the Carnegie Endowment to celebrate 200 Years of U.S.-Russian Diplomatic Relations. 
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On September 25, 2007, Indian Commerce Secretary Gopal K. Pillai spoke at the Carnegie Endowment on India’s current perspective on the Doha Round.
This year marks an important anniversary. In 1807, the Russian Empire and the young American Republic agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Soon after, Russia's first envoy, Alexander Dashkov, arrived in Washington, and John Quincy Adams traveled to St. Petersburg. Since this modest beginning, our relations, at their best and worst, have borne out de Tocqueville's prophecy that America and Russia are "marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe." Today, with the Cold War and immediate post-Soviet transition behind us, we face a new world in which an effective U.S.-Russian relationship is central to addressing many global challenges.
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