Product Description: The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next sets the intellectual stage for understanding the revolutions in the Middle East. This collection brings together more than sixty articles, interviews, congressional testimony, and op-eds from experts and thought leaders, including Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, Richard Haass, Lisa Anderson, Martin Indyk, Isobel Coleman, Aluf Benn, Dirk Vandewalle, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb...read more

Product Description: After more than a decade of extensive involvement to stop atrocities, mediate agreements, and create conditions for sustainable peace, the international community is looking to wind down its commitment in the Balkans. The Center for Preventive Action, a conflict prevention initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations, formed a high-level independent task force to develop tangible and practical recommendations focused on specific actions that will use the international community's resources wisely to implement targeted western interests...read more

Product Description: The "fog of war" has long befuddled military and political leaders. Of all the battlefronts in today's war on terrorism, few are as "foggy" as terrorist financing. This report finds that although al Qaeda's finances have been disrupted by US efforts, they have not been destroyed - and as long as al Qaeda retains access to a viable financial network it will remain a lethal threat to the United States...read more

Product Description: Information technology accounts for over one-third of recent U.S. GDP growth and nearly two-thirds of corporate capital investment. ''The New Economy'' appears omnipresent, but little is actually known about its workings.This seminal volume brings together the research and critical thinking of many of the world's top macro and micro economists to provide a unique, multifaceted perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the 2002 slowdown in the world economy, the expansion of free trade is critically important to economic growth in the US and abroad. The US must move forward on expanding trade now, according to this report of an independent task force, led by Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The United States faces a major challenge today to create a coherent and comprehensive energy policy that accommodates and coordinates, where possible, domestic and foreign policy priorities and objectives in an effective manner. In this context, the James A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Of all the regions of the former Soviet Union, Central Asia is potentially one of the most explosive and certainly one of the least understood. It is also growing rapidly in importance to US national security, commercial, and foreign policy interests: it has vast oil, gas, gold, and other resources; it has become a source and transit route for narcotics and possible nuclear and other materials; and it is affected by the fierce conflicts in Tajikistan and Afghanistan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Morris Goldstein is the Project Director of this Report of an Independent Commission Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The ongoing Asian financial crisis has graphically demonstrated the shared Western stake in the Asian economy as the United States and Europe face falling exports to Asia and rising imports from the region. In 1998, both the European and U...read more

Product Description: "Sanctions don't work" is an often-heard refrain. The reality, though, is more complex. Sanctions - mostly economic but also political and military penalties aimed at states or other entities to alter political and/or military behavior - almost always have consequences, sometimes desirable, at other times unwanted and unexpected...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: China is emerging as a new great power in Asia. But what kind of power will China become--a wealthy trading partner or a belligerent adversary? Will expanding economic links between China and the world community bring about political moderation in Beijing? Or will it endow the Chinese leadership with all the money it needs to create a modern and even more dangerous People's Liberation Army? Weaving the Net argues for an American strategy that acknowledges and is fully prepared to deal with the vast uncertainty about China's future trajectory...read more