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Asia v. the West?

Former United Nations Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani -- whom Foreign Policy magazine ranked as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world -- now declares that the American Century era is over.

Mahbubani told a packed audience at New America that the continent is not destined to repeat the bloody mistakes of Europe's 19th and 20th Centuries, having learned from the success of the EU's model of peaceful economic integration. The question that remains, however, is whether the United States and the West in general will embrace this new reality and adapt or resist it and threaten global stability even further.

Video of this April 28 event is available here. For more on Mahbubani and the future of the U.S. superpower, please click here.


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American Strategy Program: Doing the New York Times' Homework

April 29, 2008

It's a curious honor to have the New York Times trolling your blog for reported story ideas. Nonetheless, that honor goes to our own Jeffrey Lewis, publisher of ArmsControlWonk.com, and director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative here at the New America Foundation.

Here's the scoop. Published in today's New York Times, William J. Broad's article, "A Tantalizing Look at Iran's Nuclear Program," explored an intriguing new source of intelligence on the Iranian nuclear program: photographs by the official Iranian news agency of President Ahmadinejad touring nuclear facilities with his defence minister, intelligence minister, and top nuclear expert.

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George Soros on the Financial Crisis

April 4, 2008

The bursting of the sub-prime bubble forced eading hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros out of retirement. Analyzing the origins and remedies for the current financial crisis, Soros latest book, released on April 3, 2008 as an electronic book, is entitled, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means. Click here for the free e-book.

On April 4, 2008, American Strategy Program Director Steven Clemons moderated a media call with Mr. Soros.

Listen to that event here.

 

Empires, Influence, and Global Order with Parag Khanna

March 17, 2008

Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short -- until now. In The Second World, Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America’s dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms.

This contest is hottest and most decisive in the Second World: pivotal regions in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Khanna explores the evolution of geopolitics through the recent histories of such underreported, fascinating, and complicated countries as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Libya, Vietnam, and Malaysia -- nations whose resources will ultimately determine the fate of the three superpowers, but whose futures are perennially uncertain as they struggle to rise into the first world or avoid falling into the third.

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Kenya on the Brink

March 3, 2008

Kenya has drawn increasing scrutiny and absorbed U.S. policymakers' attention after the disputed results of the December election set off rounds of violence amongst political factions. During the runup to the elections, European Parliament member and Deputy Chairman of the German Liberal Democrats (FDP), Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, led an EU observer mission. As one of the first and leading voices to express doubts about the election process, he drew international attention to the electoral crisis. Graf Lambsdorff has argued that Kenya's electoral commission failed to establish the credibility of the vote-counting process due to unaddressed reported irregularities. Because of those irregularities, he has stated that some doubt remains about the accuracy of the official results.

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