RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carlos Pascual, January 15, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The 44th president will face a world of transnational threats and multiple crises. The United States cannot succeed alone. Task 1 is to rebuild U.S. credibility. We must forge positions on nuclear security and climate change, or watch these issues shaped without us. This memorandum sets an agenda to lead internationally. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin S. Indyk and Kenneth M. Pollack, January 05, 2009, The Brookings Institution
The next president will face a Middle East in turmoil and an American public weary of engagement there. That challenge requires a return to diplomacy in order to begin the withdrawal from Iraq, cap Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and promote a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Friday, December 12, 2008
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Washington, DC
For the last five years, Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy has hosted an annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum designed to build bridges of understanding. On December 12, the Center’s Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World will host a discussion of The Doha Compact – New Directions: America and the Muslim World, a new report that encapsulates the ideas developed at the forum. Read More
BOOK
James B. Steinberg and Kurt M. Campbell, December 01, 2008
America’s next president will confront critical foreign policy decisions from day one. Difficult Transitions provides essential guidance for getting those choices right. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kristin M. Lord, November 2008, The Brookings Institution
Drawing on extensive research, approximately 300 interviews and the advice of a distinguished board of ten advisers, Kristin Lord presents a vision for U.S. public diplomacy in the twenty-first century. Lord provides a detailed blueprint for a new non-profit organization, the USA World Trust, as part of a comprehensive public diplomacy strategy. Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
On November 25, Kristin Lord of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World presented Voices of America, a new Brookings report on the effectiveness of public diplomacy that includes specific recommendations for the next administration. Voices of America presents a comprehensive vision for U.S. public diplomacy in the twenty-first century. Read More
VIDEO
Mauricio Cárdenas, November 24, 2008
Latin America Initiative Director Mauricio Cárdenas says the Partnership for the Americas Commission’s new report offers important recommendations and insights for the president-elect.
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
November 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution
With the opportunity of a new U.S. administration and Congress, Brookings’s Partnership for the Americas Commission released its final report noting the need for a new hemispheric partnership to address key transnational challenges and providing specific policy recommendations on five key areas: energy and climate change, migration, trade, organized crime and drug trafficking and U.S.-Cuban relations. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 24, 2008
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
On November 24, the Brookings Institution hosted the Partnership for the Americas Commission for the release of their report, “Re-thinking U.S.-Latin American Relations: A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World," which offers a set of policy recommendations to the next U.S. administration to meet the challenges facing the U.S. and Latin America, from economic and poverty policies to security, foreign policy and energy. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, November 20, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
To face the daunting problems of the global financial crisis to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and transnational threats such as nuclear proliferation, terrorism and global climate change, the new Obama administration will need to forge global partnerships and usher in a new era of international cooperation. On November 20, the Managing Global Insecurity (MGI) Project released "A Plan for Action,” a comprehensive set of foreign policy recommendations for the next U.S. president—and other world leaders—to address the most critical challenges facing the world today. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael Fullilove, November 17, 2008, The Australian
The world is excited to turn the page on the Bush administration and begin working anew with President-elect Obama, but Michael Fullilove notes that the new president's popularity means the Australia-U.S. relationship could be lost in the crush. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark R. Parris, Autumn 2008, Private View
Mark Parris notes that a major foreign policy issue for President-elect Barack Obama to address will be repairing the U.S.-Turkish relationship. Parris outlines six key steps that he believes Obama should move quickly on to ensure a well developed Turkey agenda moving forward. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Managing Global Insecurity, November 2008, The Brookings Institution
American and global leaders face a choice: they can either use this moment to help shape an international, rule-based order that will protect their global interests, or resign themselves to an ad hoc international system where they are increasingly powerless to shape the course of international affairs. The longer the delay in new approaches and new cooperation against today’s threats, the more difficult the challenges will become. Global leaders must chart a shared path forward that marries power and responsibility to achieve together what cannot be achieved apart: peace and security in a transnational world. Read More
PAST EVENT
Monday, November 10, 2008
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Washington, DC
On November 10, the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at Brookings will host Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki of Japan for an address on the acute financial and environmental crises facing the world. Ambassador Fujisaki will offer insights and approaches to these issues and outline where Japan and the world should be headed. Read More