FBI: Al Qaeda Planning “Spectacular” Attack.

The Freeman Report is a monthly newsletter from the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies. The newsletter contains a feature essay by a guest scholar and updates of publications and events conducted by the Freeman Chair in China Studies.

Two weeks ago, former hard-line Saudi clerics Nasser al-Fahd and Ali al- Khudeir took to the airwaves to condemn acts of violence in the kingdom. Their action goes to the heart of a debate that so far has been woefully insufficient: the proper role that orthodox Islam should...

Latin America has had a spell of bad years in this new century. Real growth in gross domestic product was about 1.5 percent in 2003, according to a preliminary projection by the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

“Globalization” is not a new phenomenon, nor is it easy to define in terms that are relevant for strategic and force planning. It is true that several key trends are reshaping much of global society.
 

The world remains persistently dangerous, despite hopes of the past decade that grave threats would diminish. Chronic interstate antagonisms continue to flare, separatist movements have reemerged, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have proliferated, and new transnational...