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Patrick C. Doherty, a national-security expert at the New America Foundation, doesn't consider himself a "doomer," a label applied to Heinberg and some of his colleagues. But he does think the nation needs a new way of organizing itself. He is working with Orr and Mykleby on a "national sustainable communities coalition" that will attempt to replicate the Oberlin Project in other parts of the country -- possibly around military bases that are striving for sustainability. ...

... In the 10 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, there has been no shortage of books exploring the effect the events had on our lives. There are books about the effect on our laws, politics and culture, but which ones best explore the post-9/11 world? For an answer, we asked five experts: Richard K. Betts, Columbia University political science professor and director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; Michael Doyle, Columbia Law School foreign and security policy professor; Patrick Doherty, deputy director of the New America Foundation’s national security studies program; ...

The war of words is officially on. The killing of Osama bin Laden has shone a harsh light on the fraught U.S.-Pakistan relationship.

I could not help notice last night that Russia and China abstained from the UN Security Council vote on the intervention in Libya. 

In Japan's earthquake-triggered nuclear emergency, at least 200,000 people who live within 21 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station outside Tokyo have been removed from their homes -- residents who are already victims of the worst earthquake to hit Japan since records were kept.

Today I will be discussing American grand strategy and U.S. policy toward South Asia at the Santa Fe Institute. Check out the event page here, where the proceedings will eventually be posted. Thanks to Bill Frej and Chris Wood for the chance to join the conversation.

If there was ever a moment when President Barack Obama should heed his former chief of staff's advice to never let a good crisis go to waste, the tectonic change sweeping the Middle East is that moment.

Washington will not get an opportunity like this -- to upgrade America's standing among the people of the Middle East at a pivotal time -- ever again. But for the people of the Middle East to believe, words are not enough. Decisive action based on a redefined set of 21st-century national interests is essential.

4 Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program Update article, Christopher Leinberger and Patrick Doherty asked: • What if there were a new economic engine for the ...

What if there were a new economic engine for the United States that would put our people back to work without putting the government deeper in debt? What if that economic engine also improved our international competitiveness, reduced greenhouse gases, and made the American people healthier?

At a minimum, it would sound a lot better than any of the current offers on the table: stimulus from the liberals, austerity from the conservatives, and the president’s less-than-convincing plan for a little stimulus, a little austerity, and a little bit of a clean-energy economy.

The New America Foundation's Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative today announced the launch of "

The strategic implications of our recent poll of public opinion in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are many and layered, but taken together, should point Washington toward a policy capable of meeting a broader set of U.S. interests in the region.

Executive Summary

The New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow have conducted the first comprehensive public opinion survey covering sensitive political issues in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.