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Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock
Feb. 1, 2012
This is BPC’s fourth report on the most immediate national security challenge facing our nation: Iran’s continued progress towards nuclear weapons capability.
A Stitch in Time: Stabilizing Fragile States
May 11, 2011
Fragile states may play host to international terrorist organizations, as in Afghanistan or Yemen. They may be centers for the narcotics trade and for organized crime, as in Colombia or Guinea-Bissau. They may lose control, or facilitate the transfer, of materials for weapons of mass destruction (WMD), as many fear may happen in Pakistan.
Fragility and Extremism in Yemen
March 1, 2011
In 2009 and 2010, nearly a decade after 9/11, terrorists with ties to Yemen reminded the world that global threats continue to emanate from fragile states, no matter how distant and remote. Although Yemen may just now be joining the list of notorious terrorist safe havens—together with Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan—its fragility is not newfound. Nor is the presence there of threats to U.S. and international security.
Pentagon Gets Attention, but Planned Cuts Range Far and Wide
June 21, 2012
It is no secret here that come January, barring Congressional action, huge spending cuts will hit the Pentagon. Congressional Republicans, President Obama’s secretary of defense and military contractors have taken pains to denounce the planned reductions, which were scheduled as part of the resolution to the debt-ceiling crisis of last year.
A recent report prepared by the Bipartisan Policy Center found that the sequester cuts in total could reduce the gross domestic product in the United States by roughly half a percentage point in 2013.
Lessons from Syria for Iran
Article · The Weekly Standard · June 6, 2013
Needed: A Turkish-American Plan for Syria
Article · The Wall Street Journal · May 15, 2013
Obama Declines to Outline Plan for Syria in White House Press Conference
Article · U.S. News and World Report · May 1, 2013
The Road to Damascus: U.S.-Turkish Cooperation Towards a Post-Assad Syria
Photo Gallery · May 2, 2013
The Road to Damascus: U.S.-Turkish Cooperation Towards a Post-Assad Syria
Video · May 2, 2013
General Wald: We Are Already in Sequestration
Video · Feb. 1, 2013
Charles Robb
Co-Chair, Foreign Policy Project; Former U.S. Senator from Virginia
General Charles F. (Chuck) Wald, USAF (ret.)
Co-Chair, Foreign Policy Project; Retired General, U.S. Air Force
Álvaro Uribe
Former President of Colombia; Senior Fellow, BPC
Admiral (ret.) Gregory Johnson
Senior Advisor
Ambassador Eric S. Edelman
Senior Advisor; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Paula Dobriansky
Senior Advisor; Former Undersecretary of State
Lawrence Goldstein
Advisor
Stephen G. Rademaker
Advisor; Former Assistant Secretary of State
If Iran achieves nuclear weapons capability, widespread instability could aggravate uncertainty about the security of energy production and transport, raising oil prices and negatively impacting the U.S. economy.
Read BPC's analysis of the energy and economic effects of a nuclear Iran
