FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes July 2008

Maintaining the American Strategic Advantage

By Bruce Berkowitz

The key national security challenge of the current era is staring us in the face: for the foreseeable future, we will have to deal with a continuing series of varied threats. To keep the strategic advantage in this environment, the United States requires agility and endurance—the agility to redirect our military and diplomatic efforts to deal with rapidly changing challenges, and the endurance to maintain the underlying capabilities that give us influence.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Elections in the Republic of Korea: Foreign Policy Alternatives Under New Leadership

By David I. Steinberg

Although the South Korean-U.S. alliance of over a half-century has had its difficult periods, the trajectory is now upward. In part its continuation is dependent on U.S. sensitivity to its importance.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Preaching Jihad on Welfare: The Story of Abu Qatada

By Michael Radu

There are many lessons from the past several years that are changing the way the U.S. defense establishment operates. Understandably, the first question many might ask is “why would a judge advocate—a lawyer—be addressing this topic?” The answer reflects one of the most important changes. Law and order plays an ever larger role in military operations, certainly more so than at any other time in history.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Roles, Missions, and Equipment: Military Lessons from Experience in this Decade

By Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

There are many lessons from the past several years that are changing the way the U.S. defense establishment operates. Understandably, the first question many might ask is “why would a judge advocate—a lawyer—be addressing this topic?” The answer reflects one of the most important changes. Law and order plays an ever larger role in military operations, certainly more so than at any other time in history.

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Recent articles

• Elections, Political Transitions And Foreign Policy In East Asia: a Conference Report, Jacques deLisle (rapporteur), 6/2008
• Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character, Daniel Walker Howe, 6/2008
• The Future of Globalization: A Transatlantic Perspective, Harold James, 6/2008
• The Zimbabwe Elections, Garrett Jones
• More past articles by author · date · subject · FPRI publication

Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

The Global "Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World

By James G. McGann

Gone are the days when a think tank could operate with the motto “research it, write it and they will find it”. Today, think tanks must be lean, mean, policy machines. The report that follows summarizes the findings of a pilot project to identify some of the leading think tanks in the world, and provides lists of what might be called the “go to think tanks” in every region.

• View The Global “Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007 (24 pages, 265K )
• More about the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at FPRI

From the archives

• Spotlight on Zimbabwe: Comrade Mugabe's 'state of Disaster', Michael Radu, 5/2002
• Spotlight on Iran: Iran: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Tradition of Persian Statecraft, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Summer 1979 (1.3MB )
• Spotlight on Iran: War and the Clash of Ideas, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Spring 1976 (2.7MB )