• Steve Coll’s Sobering Vision of Afghanistan’s Future: Event Report

    Steve Coll’s Sobering Vision of Afghanistan’s Future: Event Report

    On February 27, Steve Coll (President of the New America Foundation and Pulitzer Prize-winning author) gave a strikingly clear and sobering analysis of problems afflicting the U.S. exit strategy from war in Afghanistan. His opening premise was a moral one: given the Afghan people’s suffering through mostly continuous wars since 1979, as well as the

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  • Bad News from Afghanistan

    Bad News from Afghanistan

    These days, statements issued by NATO and U.S. officials tend to portray an optimistic picture of the situation in Afghanistan, suggesting that the insurgency remains on the back foot, that the transition to Afghan lead (the process by which security responsibility for Afghanistan is gradually transitioned to Afghan leadership) is continuing, and that in the

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  • Is an Israeli Attack Inevitable?

    Is an Israeli Attack Inevitable?

    Publié dans le Ottawa Citizen, 26 février 2012 To listen to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his « best friends » Stephen Harper and John Baird, one would think that the Israeli government has made up its mind about attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities, and Canada has made up its mind to support it. After all, if

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  • Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran and the 2009 Election Scandal

    Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran and the 2009 Election Scandal

    CIPS Policy Brief No. 14 (February 2012). By Trita Parsi. Barack Obama’s presidency began with a diplomatic outreach to Iran. However, the space for diplomacy turned out to be limited, due in part to the effects of Iran’s fraudulent 2009 elections and related domestic pressures on Obama not to pursue negotiations. The Obama administration consequently

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