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Analyzes the challenges Afghanistan faces and proposes measures to meet them. This report makes and important contribution to our understanding of what needs to be done in a country whose importance has for too long and too often been underestimated.

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Premised on the judgement that the US is not succeeding in Iraq and that Iraq itself is more divided and violent than ever, this book concludes that the administration's decision to increase US force levels will fail to prevent further deterioration in the situation - and that there is no other policy with the potential to turn things around.

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Addresses the ongoing social, political, and economic challenges underway in Bolivia and presents a clear set of recommendations for the US government. This report argues that with ethnic, regional, and political tensions in Bolivia on the rise, Washington's "wait and see" approach to the Morales government is no longer adequate.

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Outlines a strategy for achieving the fundamental objectives of US nuclear weapons through the skillful management of important political relationships and relevant amendments to policies on nonproliferation, arms control, nuclear terrorism prevention, securing nuclear weapons and weapons-usable materials, and ensuring crisis stability.

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Takes stock of the changes under way in China and to evaluate what these changes mean for China and for the US-China relationship. This Task Force recommends that the United States pursue a strategy focused on the integration of China into the global community.

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In 2009, presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev pledged to sign a bilateral treaty to limit the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia to approximately 1,500 deployed nuclear weapons and 750 delivery systems. This title offers specific recommendations for US policy on four strategic and technical issues.

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Analyzes Ukraine's difficulties, related to both domestic conditions - such as fractious politics - and foreign policy issues related to the Black Sea fleet and Ukrainian and European dependence on Russia's natural gas.

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Urges US leadership in advancing accountability through domestic and regional justice mechanisms.

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It has become popular to argue that American energy security and climate change challenges can be solved by a series of 'win-win' policies that tackle both problems at once. This title assesses oil sands' future prospects along with the resulting impacts of growth on national security and climate change.

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Congress and National Security reviews the factors that have led to today's dysfunctional Congress and the impact the breakdown has had on its role in shaping national security policy.

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This report builds on an earlier study, Enhancing U.S. Preventive Action, that proposed concrete ways to improve the existing U.S. preventive framework. It precedes a third report that will examine the role of private sector actors.

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The United States will need to work with others to help maintain world order and prevent dangerous rivalries and instabilities from emerging. In many if not all cases, the US will find it necessary to work with the established multilateral organizations. This title assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these multilateral actors.

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The United States can ill afford the burden of additional foreign policy challenges. This title provides an actionable road map for how the US government should revamp its existing prevention architecture to make it more effective in dealing with potential crises abroad.

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In this report, Vijay Padmanabhan argues that the United States should dissuade ICC member states from making institutional changes that further complicate U.S. cooperation.

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NATO's leaders never tire of calling the organization the most successful military alliance.

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Explores what practices and principles should guide governments in formulating and implementing policies to govern national security reviews of FDI inflows.

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Detailing another proximate cause of the financial crash - the problem of global imbalances between savings and investment in major countries-former IMF official, this book presents a proposal to rebuild international finance's structural foundations.

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His report provides a clear statement of U.S. national interest in cyberspace and develops an agenda for promoting it within Internet governance organizations.

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A report that argues that an international legal regime that puts decisions about international intervention solely in the hands of the UN Security Council risks undermining the threat or use of intervention when it may be most potent in stopping mass atrocities.

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Offers a fresh appraisal of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea's merits and pitfalls in light of geopolitical seascape.

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This report reviews and assesses current U.S. policy in the region, treating the challenges in Pakistan and Afghanistan as connected but also distinct.

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Argues that by leading an international process to plan for recovery and reconstruction after President Robert Mugabe eventually departs, the United States can increase the likelihood that change can bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse. This book says that this planning could encourage and hasten Mugabe's exit.

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Focuses on how to manage one of the central unknowns: the prospect of change in North Korea's leadership. This title outlines three scenarios of succession - managed, contested, and failed - and offers policy recommendations for dealing with potentially fractious leadership change.

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Rejects the urgings of the abolitionists and contends that efforts to reform the International Monetary Fund deserve US support. This book argues that the US should not try to achieve unilaterally what the Fund can and should achieve multilaterally.