Marina Ottaway examines the key players in Egypt's political game and says that it will take several months to know whether the emerging balance of power will allow a democratic transformation.
Yukon Huang says the United States should worry more about fixing its own economic woes rather than playing the China currency card again.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called on the United States and Europe not to hollow out the alliance even as NATO members confront budget challenges.
Matthew Rojansky explains that Putin’s new term will largely bring a continuation of the status quo and while his grip on power will arouse anxieties in the West, he will not undo the U.S.-Russia reset.
Carnegie hosted a special taping of Charlie Rose with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephen Hadley, Brent Scowcroft, and Lawrence Summers to discuss the fall of the Soviet Union and its impact twenty years later.
S. Akbar Zaidi argues that the United States needs to rebalance its assistance away from the military toward governance and economic support.
A first-of-its-kind interactive site offers an opportunity to explore the people, places, and organizations that impacted the lives of the prominent Saudi terrorists known as the Saudi Eleven.
With EU leaders scrambling to keep Greece afloat, rating agencies continuing to downgrade European sovereign credit, banks being pushed to the brink, and Europe likely slipping back into recession, time may be running out for the euro.
Carnegie's Jessica Mathews was named one of Washington’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the October issue of Washingtonian. The magazine noted her fourteen-year stewardship of “the prestigious foreign policy think tank” and Carnegie’s influential “global reach.” The list also includes First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NBC Meet the Press executive producer Betsy Fisher, among others.
New op-ed, El Pais Moisés Naím warns that there is a strong possibility that China's economic growth is set to be derailed and the consequences would be much more severe than anything that might happen in Greece.
Carnegie paper Nathan Brown assesses the future role of Egypt’s premier religious institution, al-Azhar, and argues that the most likely outcome of the country’s post-revolutionary struggle is a religiously influenced state, but not an Iranian-style theocracy.
op-ed, Financial Times Michael Pettis says that more foreign investment will not help Europe and may make things worse. A bailout will hurt growth prospects and make it harder than ever to resolve the debt crisis.
Carnegie paper Alejandro Foxley and Fernando Sossdorf outline four lessons that middle-income countries should learn to increase the probability that they will successfully transition into advanced economies.
New video q&a Michael Swaine argues that Washington shouldn’t alter its general strategy toward Beijing, but needs to rethink some approaches to minimize the chance of confrontation.
q&a Uri Dadush warns that Europe has little time left to address its underlying weaknesses and that even if changes are made a sudden stop of funding and bailout remain possible for Italy and Spain.
event Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen reflected on his tenure—including the troop surges in Iraq and Afghanistan and the killing of Osama bin Laden—just days before the end of his term.
q&a Christopher Boucek and Karim Sadjadpour assess the tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia and analyze how the rivalry will impact the balance of power in the Middle East.
As Palestinian leaders pursue efforts to gain full UN membership, the Obama administration should reconsider its approach to the entire peace process and consider conducting a thorough overhaul of its diplomacy in the region.
In June, President Obama described a planned “transition period” for Afghanistan in 2014, involving an Afghan-led effort aimed at maintaining domestic stability with international support.
As the global center of gravity shifts toward the Pacific, the nature of relations between the United States and Europe is likely to shift.
The plans of Russia’s ruling elite, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, to retain power face increasing challenges from a crumbling infrastructure, economic stagnation, and growing social unrest.
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