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August 20 |
Managing Pakistan's Transition: A Discussion Session with Ambassador Husain Haqqani Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States
Discussants Ambassador Teresita C. Schaffer Director, South Asia Program, CSIS Frederick Barton Director, Post Conflict Reconstruction Project, CSIS
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August 13 |
U.S.-China Bilateral Relations
In partnership with Fudan University and The CNA Corporation, Pacific Forum CSIS will host the 8th dialogue on Sino-U.S. relations and regional security. We will examine new developments, energy and environmental issues, cross-Strait relations, Korean peninsula issues, Northeast Asia security architecture, the next U.S. administration and its China policy, and avenues for future cooperation.
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August 13 |
Defense Ministerial of the Americas: A Panel Discussion
The Council of the Americas, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies presented in collaboration with CSIS a panel discussion on the upcoming Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA), to be hosted in Banff, Canada on September 2, 2008. The Defense Ministerial of the Americas seeks to advance regional security cooperation, increase civilian defense expertise, encourage democratic civil-military relations, and reinforce civilian leadership in security affairs.
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August 10 |
Asia-Pacific Security Forum
In partnership with the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (Philippines), the Asia Centre (France), and the Institute for National Policy Research (Taipei), the Pacific Forum CSIS will examine "Asian Elections 2007-2008: Regional Security Implications," while also speculating on how the upcoming U.S. Election will impact Asia.
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August 8 |
START Follow-on and Missile Defense in Eastern Europe: Prospects for the Remainder of the Bush Administration
Lunch briefing for Congressional staffers featuring Brian Green, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategic Capabilities at the Defense Department. The topic of discussion was US and Russian negotiations on a legally binding, follow-on arms control agreement to replace or renew START and Washington's efforts to address Moscow's concerns over missile defense systems to be stationed in Eastern Europe. The meeting focused on the status of both of these efforts, how they can be advanced during the remaining months of the Bush presidency, and what that will mean for an incoming administration.
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August 7 |
What Should MEPI Look Like in 2015?
Scott Carpenter from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Daniel Brumberg from Georgetown University and the United States Institute of Peace led a discussion on the future of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, addressing the following: The Bush Administration emphasized democracy promotion in the Middle East more than any of its predecessors ever have, and launched the Middle East Partnership in 2002 to help advance it. More than five years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, what has MEPI achieved? Looking past the next administration and into the longer term, what parts of the MEPI agenda should be a permanent fixture of U.S. foreign policy, and what structure should administer it? What should the focus of democratization efforts be, and how much money should be directed to those efforts? How should democratization efforts be coordinated within in the U.S. government? What landmarks should we use to judge success of long-term efforts?
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August 4 |
U.S.-China Space Cooperation
Featuring Dorothy REIMOLD Acting Assistant Administrator for International Aviation, Federal Aviation Administration Rapid growth in China's aviation sector - now estimated at 8.8 percent per year - increases the challenge of providing effective safety and security operations. Dorothy "Di" REIMOLD, the Federal Aviation Administration's acting assistant administrator for international aviation, will discuss Sino-American cooperation in the aviation field, including examples of successful joint programs of interest to persons with China or aviation portfolios. One highlight is the U.S.-China Aviation Cooperation Program (ACP), jointly organized by FAA and the U.S. Trade Development Agency, which has become a channel for U.S. public and private entities to provide training and technical cooperation in areas that China's aviation authorities have identified as priorities. It builds on more than 20 years of FAA cooperation with Chinese aviation organizations on airport development, safety programs, aircraft manufacturing and air traffic control operations.
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July 31 |
Evaluating the Business Case for Nuclear Power
This session is part of an ongoing series of conferences that examine the role of nuclear energy as an option to meet urgent climate and energy needs. In this program, several panels of experts offered analyses of the economics of nuclear power as well as discussed issues with financing a fleet of new reactors. A final panel commented on the potential to scale some of the inputs necessary to support an expansion of nuclear power: human capital and the nuclear supply chain.
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July 30 |
CSIS Press Briefing: The President's Trip to Asia and the Olympics
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) hosted a briefing for members of the media on the President’s trip to Asia, including his stop at the Olympics. The briefing was delivered by: Michael Green, CSIS Senior Adviser and former Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council Robert Einhorn, CSIS Senior Adviser and former Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation Charles Freeman, CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and former Assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR) for China Affairs Bonnie Glaser, senior fellow in the CSIS International Security Program and former member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board Panel on China
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July 29 |
A Call for a Strategic U.S. Approach to the Global Food Crisis
In May 2008, in response to the growing global food crisis, CSIS launched a Task Force to assess the rising humanitarian, security, developmental and market impacts of rising food costs and shortages.
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