Opinion
Insecure About Climate Change
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, Americas witnessed what looked like an overseas humanitarian-relief operation. The storm provided a visual image of the severity of extreme weather that could be brought about by climate change in the future. The heavily populated coastal areas of the United States are vulnerable to these kinds of extreme weather events, suggesting that homeland security will require readiness against climate change. Strauss Fellow Joshua Busby suggests changes in three main areas in the Washington Post .
Strauss Center Program Educating the Next Generation of Experts
In an op-ed published by the Austin American-Statesman, Strauss Center Governing Board member Jim Langdon discusses the significance of the Strauss Center’s partnership with the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. The partnership aims to deepen cooperation, innovation and exchange of ideas in higher education and advanced research on global affairs.
Making peace with Americans
The greatest challenge facing the next president will be bringing the nation’s foreign policy back into balance with its political will. For most of the last 50 years, bipartisanship at home steadied U.S. statecraft abroad. But today, Congress is bitterly divided over the Iraq war, as is the public. Even after Gen. David H. Petraeus testified to Congress that the “surge” was working, a Rasmussen poll revealed that 82% of Democrats want the forces home within a year, while 71% of Republicans believe that the troops should remain in Iraq until the mission is complete.
How Can We Deprive al-Qaeda of an Iraqi Base? Arm Moderate Sunnis
Neither President Bush's surge of troops, nor the withdrawal deadline Congress is expected to send to him after the Easter recess, has any hope of stabilizing Iraq. So it is time to contemplate a more radical option: Switch our allegiance from that country's Shiite-controlled government to its moderate Sunni minority, on condition they help us wipe out Sunni extremists in Iraq, including al-Qaeda.
Time to Offshore Our Troops
The Iraq Study Group's recommendation that the United States withdraw its combat forces from Iraq reflects a growing national consensus that our military cannot quell the violence there and may even be making matters worse. Although many are hailing this recommendation as a bold new course, it is not bold enough. America will best serve its interests in the Persian Gulf by withdrawing its ground-based military forces not only from Iraq, but from the entire region.
Strategic Victimhood in Sudan
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Assistant Professor Alan Kuperman argues that the key to rescuing Darfur is to reverse recent incentives.
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