Friday, May 1, 2009

[RED DEMOCRATICA] ESPECIAL : BOLETIN : The World This Week: Nuclear Weapons - Obama's First 100 Days - Swine Flu - more



From the Council on Foreign Relations

May 1, 2009

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In this Issue:

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

Global Health Crisis: Swine Flu

President Obama's First 100 Days

North Korea's Nuclear Calculations


U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy

A new CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force, co-chaired by former secretary of defense William J. Perry and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, examines the challenges that the Obama administration faces in crafting its nuclear weapons policy. Read more

Foreign Affairs: "The Mushroom Cloud That Wasn't," by Michael Krepon

Op-ed: "For Obama and Medvedev, Bombs Away," by Micah Zenko (Guardian)

Council Special Report: Deterring State Sponsorship of Nuclear Terrorism, by Michael Levi

Gwertzman Interview with Leslie Gelb on Iran's nuclear program

Book: On Nuclear Terrorism, by Michael Levi

CFR experts on Proliferation

Global Health Crisis: Swine Flu

CFR's Laurie Garrett says sharp differences in the lethality of the swine flu cases in Mexico and the United States pose a "tricky" situation for global health authorities trying to put proper controls in place to contain the disease. Read more

Media Conference Call Audio, Transcript: Laurie Garrett on the swine flu outbreak

Podcast: Stephen Flynn says the United States remains unprepared for a major epidemic

Interview with Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota on the swine flu outbreak

Foreign Affairs: "Unprepared for a Pandemic," by Michael Osterholm

CFR experts on Global Health

President Obama's First 100 Days

CFR President Emeritus Leslie Gelb discusses what President Obama's first 100 days in office have revealed about his foreign policy strategy. Read more

Op-ed: "Obama's Doing the Best with a Short Stack," by Gideon Rose (Los Angeles Times)

Foreign Affairs: "Jonestown: Will Obama's National Security Council Be 'Dramatically Different?'" by I.M. Destler

Interview: Shannon O'Neil on the president's meeting with Latin American leaders at the Summit of the Americas

Op-ed: "Obama's First 100 Days," by Max Boot (Commentary)

Expert Brief with James Goldgeier on the president's trip to Europe

Gwertzman Interview with Charles Kupchan on Obama's trip to Europe

Op-ed: "Obama and North Korea: The First 100 Days," by Scott Snyder (GlobalSecurity.org)

Interview with Julia Sweig on Cuba's view of the Obama administration

CFR experts on Presidency, U.S. Strategy and Politics

North Korea's Nuclear Calculations

CFR's Scott Snyder says Pyongyang's retreat from talks to end its nuclear programs may be part of a looming change in leadership and a desire to alter the terms of engagement with Washington. Read more

Council Special Report: Preparing for Sudden Change in North Korea by Paul Stares and Joel Wit

Interview with Sheila Smith on engaging North Korea

Backgrounder: North Korea after Kim

Op-ed: "Prepare for North Korean Instability," by Paul Stares (Los Angeles Times)

Interactive: Crisis Guide on the Korean peninsula

CFR experts on East Asia, Proliferation

 
CFR President Richard Haass's Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

Richard Haass was one of a handful of top government officials involved in the decision-making process during both Iraq conflicts. In his new book, War of Necessity, War of Choice, he explains precisely how and why the two Iraq wars resulted from two very different policymaking processes and two fundamentally different approaches to U.S. foreign policy.

 
 
What if the U.S. Dollar Plummets?

CFR's Center for Preventive Action published a new Contingency Planning Memorandum, "If the Dollar Plummets." Authored by CFR Fellow for Geoeconomics Brad Setser, the memorandum examines potential triggers and indicators of such a crisis and posits concrete policy options to limit U.S. vulnerability to the possibility of a plummeting dollar.

 
 
The World Next Week Podcast

The World Next Week is an audio preview of world events in the week ahead. Presented by CFR.org's executive editor Michael Moran and Foreign Affairs' managing editor Gideon Rose, it is one of CFR.org's most popular podcasts. Listen to the Friday, May 1 podcast by clicking here.

 
 
CFR Experts in the News

Interrogations (5/1): Richard Haass writes that those who argued that harsh interrogation techniques were legal should not be prosecuted, in the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. Economy (4/30): Roger Kubarych discusses the factors behind Washington's optimism over economic recovery, in Nikkei Financial Daily.

Interrogations (4/27): Michael Gerson discusses the Justice Department's release of the memos on coercive interrogations, in the Washington Post.

Homeland Security (4/28): Stephen Flynn asks, "Is homeland security still on the nation's radar screen?" in the American Interest.

United Arab Emirates (4/24): Elliott Abrams urges Congress to quickly approve the "123 Agreement" with the UAE, in the Washington Times.

U.S. Foreign Policy (4/24): Stephen Sestanovich argues that the President needs a strategy for dealing with Congress on foreign policy issues, in the Washington Post.

War (4/24): Max Boot discusses the stigmatization--and necessity--of mercenaries, in the National Interest.

Development (4/23): Stewart Patrick reviews Too Poor for Peace? by Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet, in the Environmental Change and Security Report.

 
 

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