Briefing Book
List of Briefing Book articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Biohazard
Why U.S. bioterror research is more dangerous than bioterrorism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The New Asianism
Since the Democratic Party of Japan won in the country's August national election, Japan watchers have worried the new government might try to upset the status quo and ease away from the United States. The DPJ is implementing a new paradigm -- but not the one people think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Guantanamo Countdown
President Obama promised to close the facility within a year, but eight months later, the path is looking rockier. Here's what the administration needs to do to meet its deadline.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More Than Just a Photo-Op
Barack Obama's handshake meeting with Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu is not getting nearly the credit it deserves. In fact, Obama's Mideast peace strategy is far more sophisticated than most observers realize.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Save Lives by Breaking All the Rules
How former U.S. Global AIDS coordinator Mark Dybul ditched the bureaucracy, stopped intergovernmental turf wars, pushed for results, and helped create an anti-poverty machine that actually works.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Losing the War of Exhaustion
It's not low troop levels that stand to defeat the United States in Afghanistan. It's plain old public fatigue.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Engage Iran (If You Must)
Tehran has mastered the dark arts of deception and delay. Here’s how Obama can cut through the diplomatic fog and get results.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New Course in the World, a New Approach at the U.N.
Remarks as delivered by Amb. Susan E. Rice, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and Center on International Cooperation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why the Taliban Are Winning — for Now
The last few years have been a strategic fiasco, but this war is still winnable. Here's how.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Somali Surprise?
U.S. officials are worried about the chaos radiating from the Horn of Africa. But how concerned should we be?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Somalia: Too Big a Problem to Fail?
A new hotbed of terror could be a domestic problem for Obama. But he shouldn't treat it like one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A New Approach to Safeguarding Americans
The president's top counterterrorism advisor explains the new administration's approach in an address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Time to Declare Victory and Go Home
The following is an internal memorandum from Col. Timothy R. Reese, chief of the Baghdad Operations Command Advisory Team, Multinational Division-Baghdad, Iraq. Its existence was first reported by Michael Gordon in the New York Times and Spencer Ackerman in the Washington Independent.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Insider’s Guide to Washington’s China War
Where and how the battle lines are being drawn.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sound the Alarm
How to stop Burma from getting nukes.
