Carnegie Moscow Center
A discussion of Michele Dunne’s Carnegie Paper on promoting reform in the Middle East.
John Judis, Jim Mann, and Michael Lind discuss historical lessons that could have informed the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Carnegie and the Gulf Research center co-hosted a two-day workshop held in Dubai, with experts, researchers, and political activists from the GCC states, the U.S., and Europe. The workshop focused on assessing past political reform--its causes and impacts--and the prospects for future reform in the GCC states.
The National Bureau of Asian Research held a conference, Strategic Asia and the War on Terrorism, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on September 22, 2004, in conjunction with the launch of its new book Strategic Asia 2004-2005: Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power, co-edited by Ashley Tellis and Michael Wills and with a contribution from Michael Swaine.
A major two-day conference in September explored a wide range of questions related to China's foreign relations and political and economic development.
For the first time in American history, a president will deploy a major weapon system without knowing whether it works. Top experts discuss the deployment of five missile interceptors at Fort Greely, Alaska.
Despite widespread hopes, democrats in Hong Kong were unable to secure a majority of legislative seats in the September 12 elections. Why were democrats unsuccessful? What are the implications of the elections on democratization in Hong Kong and on cross-Strait relations? And what role should the U.S. should play with regard to Hong Kong?
Democracy promotion has moved to the top of the American foreign policy agenda, becoming directly connected to core U.S. security concerns in ways not seen since the Cold War. Discussants asses the role of democracy promotion in the Bush administration’s foreign policy and take stock of its record over the past four years.
On September 8th, 2004, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a discussion on the development of federal power in Russia. The speaker, Nikolay Petrov, is a Scholar-in-Residence with the Russian Domestic Politics and Domestic Institutions Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center since 1995. Carnegie Endowment Senior Associate Michael McFaul chaired the meeting.
On September 2, 2004, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosted a meeting on the current situation of the Union of Right Forces in the context of current Russian politics. The speaker was Leonid Gozman, a long-standing activist in the Union of Rights Forces and an advisor to UES CEO Anatoly Chubais. Michael McFaul, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment, moderated the session.