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Steve Clemons spoke by phone about State Department Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, who died the previous day following surgery for a torn aorta. Among …

Former Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad spoke about terrorism and efforts to combat terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In his remarks he said he wanted the U.S. to remain the pre-emine…

Three panels at a day-long forum on terrorism focused on the future of terrorism and U.S. responses to the threat of terrorism. Among the topics addressed were terrorist tactics and goals, c…

Robert Pape talked about a sub-project of the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Terrorism on “suicide terrorism,” which compiles statistics and keeps a database of all the suic…

Representative Brian Baird (D-WA) spoke about U.S. efforts to combat terrorism, the psychology of terrorism, and ways in which partisan politics and “group think” affect political efforts to…

Participants in a day-long forum on U.S. military policy and terrorism spoke about a number of issues. Admiral Roughead spoke about the role of the Navy in national security and counterterro…

Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg opened a day-long conference on the future of U.S. foreign policy with a speech about U.S. foreign policy priorities. Following his remarks diplomat…

A bipartisan group of scholars, business executives, former government officials and journalists known as the Afghanistan Study Group released a report on the war. It recommended changes in …

Panelists talked about the trends in terrorism and counter-terrorism policies. They focused on al Qaeda, the psychology of political violence, the decentralized nature of terrorism, and the …

Panelists discussed the Obama administration after one year. The panel consisted of essayists from the January-February 2010 issue of American Interest on the first year of the Obama adminis…