Zalmay Khalilzad on Terrorism
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…
203 viewsFormer 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…
203 viewsThree 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…
673 viewsRobert 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…
1,776 viewsRepresentative 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…
4,259 viewsParticipants 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…
283 viewsA 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 …
257 viewsPanelists 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 …
388 viewsPanelists 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…
266 viewsThe New America Foundation hosted on event with David Shorr, Weston Konishi and Steve Clemons about Japan and the book, Powers and Principles: International Leadership in a Shrinking World. …
191 viewsPanelists discussed US-Latin American relations, with an emphasis on President Obama’s decision to ease travel restrictions to Cuba. They also talked about the Summit of the Americas. The pa…
237 viewsWadah Khanfar participated in a discussion on the relationship between the U.S. and Al Jazeera and the Arab World. Topics included the knowledge level in journalistic reporting on the Middle…
205 viewsJuan Cole argues in Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan; March 17, 2009) that Western attitudes towards Muslim countries have been significantly shaped by fearmongering and misinfo…
288 viewsPeter Gosselin, national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, spoke about his book High Wire (Basic Books). In his book, Mr. Gosselin contends that twenty-five years of free ma…
115 viewsWalter Russell Mead discussed his new article about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Foreign Affairs, “Change They Can Believe In,” with Daniel Levy. Among the topics addressed were the U…
301 viewsJane Mayer talked about her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, published that day by Doubleday. In her book she recounts her …
1,890 viewsSteve Clemons and Karen Greenberg introduced the conference on the current threat posed by al-Qaeda and its affiliates and what steps the next administration should take in combating al Qaed…
335 views“Al-Qaeda in the Arab World and Europe” was the fourth panel of the day-long event “Al Qaeda 3.0: The ‘War on Terror’ After the Bush Administration.” Topics include the use of Algeria as a l…
176 views“The Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan” was the third panel of the day-long event “Al Qaeda 3.0/The ‘War on Terror’ After the Bush Administration.” Topics included the goals o…
378 viewsA conversation was held on Pakistan’s political environment in the wake of President Musharraf’s resignation. Pakistani Ambassador Haqqani Husain talked about the current situation in Paki…
178 viewsJuan Cole talked about his book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East, published by Palgrave Macmillan. In his book he recounts Napoleon’s attempt to acquire Egypt as a French colony i…
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