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USAID/OTI’s Initial Governance Response Program in Colombia
June 30, 2011

A team from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) evaluated the programs and activities that USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) undertook in Colombia from 2007 to 2011. (CSIS had previously done a...


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The New National Strategy for Counterterrorism
June 30, 2011 | Rick "Ozzie" Nelson

On Wednesday, the White House released the new National Strategy for Counterterrorism. The document follows up on the 2006 version, authored by the Bush administration, and comes at a momentous time for the United States given the “Arab Spring,” the recent death...


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Governance and Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
June 16, 2011 The CSIS Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation (C3), formerly the PCR Project, has studied the link between the rise of nonstate armed groups (or militants, for the sake of simplicity) and the quality of local governance in Afghanistan and Pakistan: whether a link exists...

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The Earthquake: How Egypt Emerges From Uncertainty
June 15, 2011 | Jon B. Alterman Egypt is not Tunisia. When Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Bin Ali fl ed Tunis on January 14, it was a curiosity in the Middle East.

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2011 Global Forecast
June 15, 2011 | Craig Cohen, Josiane Gabel This brief volume is an effort to capture CSIS’s collective wisdom of the changing international security picture at this moment of great fluctuation. Included are essays by more than 30 CSIS experts, offering economic, military, regional, and global perspectives on the newly...

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Bracing For Aftershocks: North African Politics and Security
June 15, 2011

North Africa is bracing itself. Not since Algeria’s brutal civil war a generation ago has the region witnessed so much turmoil and uncertainty.

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A Partnership for Recovery
June 15, 2011 | Michael J. Green, Nicholas Szechenyi The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, reminded the world that even the most developed nations are not immune from nature’s wrath.

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Instability and Global Food Supplies
June 15, 2011 | Johanna Nesseth Tuttle World food prices are at an all-time high. The world’s population is growing and is expected to increase by 2 billion people over the next 40 years.

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What Libya Tells Us about the Future of Multilateralism?
June 15, 2011 The UN-mandated, NATO-led military action in Libya highlights a number of fundamental characteristics of multilateral politics.

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Al Qaeda in Iraq
June 15, 2011 Founded in October 2004, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) emerged from a transnational terrorist group created and led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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The Global Trade Picture from Washington
June 15, 2011 A retreat into trade protectionism after October 2008 is the dangerous dog that did not bite the international economy.

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The Future of Low Carbon Growth
June 15, 2011 | Sarah Ladislaw In the wake of the economic crisis, the conversation about global cooperation to deal with climate change has shifted almost entirely to a discussion about the competitive economic advantage to be gained from leading in socalled clean energy technologies.

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