Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1537
Medvedev: "
Only one president"
in Russia;
Putin warns on Kosovo precedent
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South Asia Security Monitor: No. 209
Philippine militants unite;
Neo-Taliban, public enemy #1
Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 238
Progress with Poland;
Damascus digs in...;
...as Israel moves closer to short-range defense;
Missile jitters in Moscow
China Reform Monitor: No. 685
Olympic propaganda;
China's unique Internet boom
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1536
Ethnic killings on the rise;
A new oligarch claims #1 spot
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1535
Military hazing claims another casualty;
Medvedev maps out his economic priorities
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1534
Ukraine averts gas crisis, receives nuke threat;
Kremlin calls for ban on arms in space
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 169
A step toward reconciliation in Iraq;
New nuclear jitters in Central Asia;
Dressing up in Tajikistan;
An ominous warning in Lebanon
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1533
Medvedev's edge;
The Kremlin's quid pro quo with Iraq
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1532
Gazprom prepares for the Russian elections;
Another instance of "
punitive psychiatry"
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 67
Cracks in Iran's economic facade;
A helping hand for Egypt...;
...and economic sustenance for Syria;
Iran's other front
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 168
A larger SCO? A new day in Ankara;
Dubai hunkers down;
Turkey's human trafficking problem;
Democracy takes a beating in Eurasia
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 208
North Korea nuclear deal under fire at home;
Al-Qaeda in Pakistan: back in action
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1531
An untransparent election in the offing;
Russia's suicidal youth
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1530
Putin urges higher vigilance from the FSB;
Is Putin Gazprom-bound?
Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 237
Warsaw's quid pro quo;
Still arming for a conflict in the Strait;
Israel shifts focus to short-range threats...;
...amid a new focus on space security
Iran Strategy Brief No. 3: The Case For Economic Warfare
What can the United States do about Iran? Today that question, fueled by growing international concern over the Islamic Republic’s persistent nuclear ambitions, has emerged at the forefront of the American strategic debate.
In this calculus, economic measures have received comparatively short shrift. This is because conventional wisdom has it that the United States possesses little leverage that it can bring to bear in order to deter and contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. In this case, however, the conventional wisdom is wrong; the United States has a considerable number of economic tools at its disposal, despite its lack of trade relations with the Islamic Republic.
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1529
How Russia exploits the UN;
Kasyanov gets the cold shoulder
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1528
Russia's economic "
airbag"
End of the line for Mogilovich
China Reform Monitor: No. 684
Burma eyed as energy route;
Hard times for Taiwan in Africa
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 66
Back to Iraq;
Negotiating with the Pasdaran;
Iran's ailing economy;
Tehran takes an energy hit
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 207
Afghans unwelcome in Iran;
China's contingency plans for Pyongyang
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1527
Russia's "
preventive"
nuclear posture;
Where is Medvedev's money?
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1526
A military parade in May;
Russian think tank to monitor Western politics
China Reform Monitor: No. 683
China's surging surplus;
A corruption crackdown in the CPC
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1525
Russia's Communist Party on the defensive;
Bukovsky denied presidential bid
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 167
Russian media looks abroad;
Kirkuk's fate on hold;
The terrorist pulse in Turkey;
Terrorists flood the Strip;
Sectarian tensions linger in Bahrain
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1524
A different take on Georgia's elections;
New questions about Nord Stream
‘Enter Islam or Else!’
Adam Gadahn, a.k.a. Azzam al Amriki, has come a long way since his days living on a goat farm and playing in his one-man death metal band Aphasia. The 30-year-old California native has quickly become the American face of al Qaeda. Azzam’s purpose is to make an appeal to the American people, to explain the current situation in the war and to exhort them to join in supporting al Qaeda and its cause.
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 206
Losing Afghanistan?;
Sri Lanka gets tougher with the Tigers
Iran Democracy Monitor: No. 65
The return of Mohammad Khatami;
A new ally in Latin America;
Iran's drug problem;
Courting Cairo
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1523
Gazprom's eye on Africa;
The Kremlin digs in on Kosovo
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 166
A shake-up in Hezbollah's leadership;
Najaf rising;
Farouq Shaara's faux paus;
Surprising sentiments in Saudi Arabia
Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 236
Progress in Europe...;
...and ambivalence in Asia;
Israel focuses on short-range threats;
Arming Iran?;
Russia's response to U.S. missile defense plans
China Reform Monitor: No. 682
Energy binds China and Saudi Arabia;
Meet the new, assertive China
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1522
Medvedev's star on the ascent;
Russia's arms exports continue to rise
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 205
North Korea's terror ties exposed;
Emergency rule ends in Pakistan
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1521
Putin scores a pipeline victory;
A political tug-of-war in Moscow
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 165
Courting al-Qaeda;
A new approach to the PPK;
al-Qaeda's eye on the Gulf;
Back to school for Sadr;
Hamas digs in...
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1520
Tensions rise over U.S. missile defense plans;
Introducing the "
Person of the Year"
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1519
British-Russian tensions heat up;
A Russia-Belarus union in the offing?
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 164
Lebanon finds a president;
Campaigning in Krgystan;
Turkmenistan reverts to type;
Moscow flexes its Mediterranean muscle...
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1518
Stoking nationalist sentiment... in Israel;
Putin's pick for president
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 204
Inching toward peace in the Philippines;
New Australian premier wants out of Iraq
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1517
Moscow turns up the heat on Britain;
More trouble in U.S.-Russia ties
The National Intelligence Guesstimate
In recent weeks, the White House appeared to be gaining serious ground in its efforts to cobble together an international consensus to confront Iran. Today, however, Administration officials are desperately trying to put the pieces of their Iran policy back together. The culprit is the intelligence community's new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which asserts that the Iranian regime currently is not in the business of making nuclear weapons.
South Asia Security Monitor: No. 203
Militants take to the airwaves in Pakistan;
Foreign fighters creep into Kashmir
Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1516
No surprises on election day;
A growing Russian footprint in the Middle East
Losing The War Of Ideas?
After a short two-year tenure, Karen Hughes now departs as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. She concentrated on the public affairs area of her job by creating the Rapid Response Unit and regional media hubs—things that anyone would find hard to believe the U.S. government was not already doing before her arrival. Hughes inherited the detritus from the 1999 destruction of the U.S. Information Agency, and tried to put back some of the missing building blocks of public diplomacy. However, by almost every index, we are not doing well in the war of ideas. Some say we have already lost.
Eurasia Security Watch: No. 163
Hezbollah's swelling coffers;
Saudis and Libyans fuel Iraqi jihad;
A change of heart in prison;
The struggle over Kirkuk's oil;
Moscow gets a dose of its own medicine...