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Winning The Long War: Retaking The Offensive Against Radical Islam
Ilan Berman
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers
July 2009


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  • Mr. Jia Qinglin, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC (4th highest ranking political official in China), meets with AFPC Advisory Board Member Speaker Newt Gingrich and AFPC delegates in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
  • AFPC President Herman Pirchner, Jr. meets with long-time mayor of Sevastopol in his June 2009 trip to Ukraine.
  • AFPC Advisory Board member Dr. William Schneider, former Under Secretary of State and DoD Science Board Chairman, and Gen. Xiong Guangkai, Chairman of the Chinese Institute for Strategic Studies and former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, discuss Sino-U.S. relation
  • AFPC Research Fellow and Program Officer Rich Harrison poses with Mdm. Chen, Aijing, Director General of Xiamen Foreign Affairs Office on the AFPC bi-partisan delegation to China in February 2009
  • AFPC Advisory Board member Amb. Richard McCormack, former Under Secretary of State and current Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch, is pictured with Mr. Guo Shuqing, Chairman of China's Construction Bank during the AFPC August 2009 delegation to Asia
  • Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ-2nd) Member, House Armed Services Committee Chairman, House Missile Defense Caucus speaks at the AFPC Missile Defense conference moderated by AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman
  • South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo joins Speaker Newt Gingrich and AFPC delegates for a picture after a meeting in August 2009
  • Steve Yates, AFPC Senior Fellow in Asia Studies and former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, is shown making one of his frequent appearances in the news
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Russia's Real Threat? Failure
By Ilan Berman
Washington Times
February 1, 2010

There's an old saying, familiar to historians and foreign policy practitioners, that "geography is destiny." A modern twist to this rule is that demography is no less decisive.

Russia is finding this out the hard way. Over the past several years, under the direction of former President (and current Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin and his handpicked protege, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia may have re-emerged on the international scene with a vengeance. But behind all of the Kremlin's contemporary geopolitical bluster, the successor state of the once-mighty Soviet Union is caught in a demographic and socioeconomic death spiral.


Latest In-House Bulletins

China Reform Monitor - No. 806 , February 8, 2010

Eurasia Security Watch - No. 217 , February 5, 2010

China Reform Monitor - No. 805 , February 3, 2010

South Asia Security Monitor - No. 247 , February 1, 2010

Missile Defense Briefing Report - No. 267 , January 27, 2010

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India's Newest Invention

Date Posted: December 11, 2009

New Delhi has unexpectedly acquiesced in the process of the creating of a new state out of the northwestern region of Andhra Pradesh (Indian states enjoy more prerogatives than American States). Under the terms laid out by Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the state legislature in Andhra will consider a resolution to carve out a separate state encompassing 10 existing districts where the Telangana ethnic group are dominant. The Telengana have been agitating to various degrees for autonomy or independence since their region was joined with fellow Telugu speakers in Andhra and Rayalaseema in 1956, then forming the first Indian province built along linguistic lines. Read more ...


Iran's Month Of Living Dangerously

Date Posted: December 1, 2009

GWOT, RIP

Date Posted: November 16, 2009

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