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Spring 2009 Centerpiece CoverNew Issue of the Centerpiece
The Spring 2009 issue of the Centerpiece focuses on end-of-the-year activities at the Weatherhead Center with inclusion of a photo essay on past conferences and seminars. Our two main features address issues of ongoing interest close to our geographical bearings: ethnic tensions in Canada and health care in the United States. Our director's message focuses on the financial crisis and its effects on the year to come at the Center. And More >

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Below you will find a selection of recent articles in the news by WCFIA Affiliates:

America's Inconsistent Response to Global Hunger: Statement to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Providing international leadership to alleviate global hunger requires our Government to have strong policies in two separate areas: Responding to short-term food emergencies, such as the...
Publication Type: Congressional publication
Published Date: March 2009 More
The Axis of Upheaval
by Ferguson, Niall
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Magazine Article
Seven years ago, in his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush warned of an "axis of evil" that was engaged in assisting terrorists, acquiring weapons...
Published Date: March 2009 More
Samuel Huntington, 1927-2008
by Editorial
Publisher: Foreign Policy
Publication Type: Magazine Article
When Samuel P. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel cofounded Foreign Policy in 1970, their explicit goal was to attack entrenched orthodoxies in the Washington debate. They promised a journal that...
Published Date: March 2009 More
Europe needs a stronger France inside Nato
by Kaiser, Karl; Moïsi, Dominique
Publisher: Financial Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
The debate on whether to return to Nato’s permanent command structure that has recently been unleashed in France—43 years after Charles de Gaulle pulled his country out—has impassioned...
Published Date: February 2009 More
A Stimulus Package for Reviving the Peace Process
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: Israel Policy Forum
Publication Type: Op-ed
The recently enacted stimulus package for reviving the worst U.S. economic recession in decades should serve as a model for reviving the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. The peace process has...
Published Date: February 2009 More
Gaza sours Israel-Turkey relations
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: Al Jazeera English
Publication Type: Interview
Inside Story: Gaza sours Israel-Turkey relations
Published Date: February 2009 More
An alternative to NATO membership
by Kaiser, Karl
Publisher: International Herald Tribune
Publication Type: Op-ed
NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine is not a realistic possibility, no matter what the Atlantic alliance may say about their potential in principle, as it did at the last two summit meetings....
Published Date: February 2009 More
Avoiding the worst: International economic cooperation and domestic politics
by Frieden, Jeffry
Publisher: Vox
Publication Type: Op-ed
If the crisis turns into a new Great Depression, it will most likely be due to a breakdown of cooperation among the major economies. But sustaining international cooperation requires domestic...
Published Date: February 2009 More
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Names Manela Visiting Scholar
Publisher: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Publication Type: Op-ed
Erez Manela, the Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History at Harvard University, is among eight individuals who have been awarded fellowships as part of the American Academy of Arts and...
Published Date: January 2009 More
In Memoriam: Samuel P. Huntington
by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Publication Type: Press Release
Samuel P. Huntington, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University, was one of the giants of political science worldwide during the past half century. He had a knack for...
Published Date: December 2008 More
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