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“Ésta es mi batalla”: The Realities of Local Development Projects
To be an effective partner in local development projects, one must possess a significant degree of patience and flexibility. Primarily, I strived to gain the trust of the loca...
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The Plant that Changed the World?
Mounted on the back of a motorcycle, traveling the makeshift dirt roads of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the efforts of IDDI, CIDEAL, and the EU in collaboration with loca...
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South Asia's Geography of Conflict | Robert Kaplan
In this exclusive interview, CNAS Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan discusses his new report, South Asia’s Geography of Conflict. Kaplan argues, “As the U.S. and China become gre...
By Robert D. Kaplan
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What Did You Do This Summer? Our Guest Blogger Planted Jatropha in the Dominican Republic
Welcome back from a long weekend everyone. This week on the blog we're going to hear from a talented student I met last winter who spent his summer in Dominican Republic and H...
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On Bacevich, Part I
The last time I saw Andrew Bacevich was a month or so ago, and he chastised me for not responding to this piece he wrote on the New Republic's website. I explained that I had ...
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Quote of the Weekend (Heartland Edition)
Heard this past weekend in a bar in Chattanooga, Tennessee: Lane Kiffin is the Sarah Palin of college football. He's never stayed anywhere long enough to actually accomplish a...
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Happy Labor Day: Here's Some Natural Security News
We wanted to note the important natural security news items from the weekend, but this will be our only post today. Happy Labor Day everyone! Lithuania has announced guideline...
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What’s the MATA with public transportation?
I wanted to follow up my post from yesterday with another related post on energy, though with a slightly different angle. We’ve done quite a bit of international travel this s...
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Cricket and Corruption II
Not so long ago, I had a conversation with a Pakistani businessman about the prospects for economic growth. The conversation turned to import and export. Now, as someone who h...
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Cultural Change and the Energy Revolution
With about 20 hours of flying time over the last 10 days, hopping between Washington and Europe for a climate change simulation that we ran in Hamburg last week, I managed to ...
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Iraq: The Morning After Commentary (Updated)
As I wrote last night, I rather liked the president's speech and thought it showed proper respect for the sacrifices made and for President Bush. Others on the internets had d...
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For what it's worth...
...I don't think this speech by the president matters much. But I thought it was excellent. I thought it showed class regarding President Bush, made the right connections betw...
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"the normal course of spirited competition"
Today's award for Awesomeness in the English Language goes to the Financial Times, which explained cheating in cricket thusly: The amounts offered to players to divert from th...
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Cricket and Corruption
I literally could not wait for Londonstani's take on this corruption scandal surrounding Pakistan's cricket team*, so I'm jumping the gun here. My father was a sports writer a...
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Hiatus
Dear Readers, We'll be on hiatus for a couple of days as we return from traveling to Europe for a climate change negotiations simulation that we executed in Hamburg. We will b...
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From the Dept. of Silly Ideas
It blows my mind that some legislators still think it's a good idea to peg our nation's defense budget to a percentage of the GDP. Call me a traditionalist, but a nation's def...
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Hope amongst Pakistan's ruins
As bad as the flood damage is in Pakistan, there is a positive side. My latest article on the afpak channel is about the young Pakistanis with the skills and connections to do...
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Embedded with the Taliban
Some Norwegian idiot journalist has embedded with the Taliban and shot this incredible footage of an attack on a U.S. or allied convoy. These guys sound and act a lot like a U...
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Recruiting the Officer Corps
Gary Schmitt and Cheryl Miller have a really fantastic op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that is, alas, password-protected on the Journal's website.* The money quote: Much ...
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Floods in Pakistan and the Importance of Natural Security
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in my time at CNAS working with the Natural Security team, it’s that climate events and natural disasters around the world (along with i...