FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Elections in the Republic of Korea: Foreign Policy Alternatives Under New Leadership

By David I. Steinberg

Although the South Korean-U.S. alliance of over a half-century has had its difficult periods, the trajectory is now upward. In part its continuation is dependent on U.S. sensitivity to its importance.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Preaching Jihad on Welfare: The Story of Abu Qatada

By Michael Radu

There are many lessons from the past several years that are changing the way the U.S. defense establishment operates. Understandably, the first question many might ask is “why would a judge advocate—a lawyer—be addressing this topic?” The answer reflects one of the most important changes. Law and order plays an ever larger role in military operations, certainly more so than at any other time in history.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Roles, Missions, and Equipment: Military Lessons from Experience in this Decade

By Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.

There are many lessons from the past several years that are changing the way the U.S. defense establishment operates. Understandably, the first question many might ask is “why would a judge advocate—a lawyer—be addressing this topic?” The answer reflects one of the most important changes. Law and order plays an ever larger role in military operations, certainly more so than at any other time in history.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: E-Notes June 2008

Elections, Political Transitions And Foreign Policy In East Asia: a Conference Report

By Jacques deLisle (rapporteur)

This report summarizes FPRI’s conference on April 14, 2008 examining the impact of elections and political transitions on foreign policy in East Asia.

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FPRI Featured Bulletin: FootNotes June 2008

Honest Abe: Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character

By Daniel Walker Howe

No story in American history has captured the popular imagination better than that of Abraham Lincoln’s youth. We like the story of a poor boy who made good. But I wonder how much longer his story will seem comprehensible to young Americans.

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Recent articles

• Technological Innovation and National Security, Paul Bracken, 6/2008
• The Future of Globalization: A Transatlantic Perspective, Harold James, 6/2008
• China’s Legal Encounter with the West, Jacques deLisle, 6/2008
• The Zimbabwe Elections, Garrett Jones
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Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program

The Global "Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World

By James G. McGann

Gone are the days when a think tank could operate with the motto “research it, write it and they will find it”. Today, think tanks must be lean, mean, policy machines. The report that follows summarizes the findings of a pilot project to identify some of the leading think tanks in the world, and provides lists of what might be called the “go to think tanks” in every region.

• View The Global “Go-To Think Tanks”: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World, 2007 (24 pages, 265K )
• More about the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at FPRI

From the archives

• Spotlight on Zimbabwe: Comrade Mugabe's 'state of Disaster', Michael Radu, 5/2002
• Spotlight on Iran: Iran: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Tradition of Persian Statecraft, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Summer 1979 (1.3MB )
• Spotlight on Iran: War and the Clash of Ideas, Adda B. Bozeman, in Orbis, Spring 1976 (2.7MB )