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  • Turkey's Accession to the EU - The Benefits From a Counter Terrorism Perspective - By Miriam Awadallah

    Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: The Benefits from a Counterterrorism Perspective by Miriam Awadallah Intern – Transatlantic Security October 2011 The European Union has been in negotiations over the admission of Turkey into the organization since the nation submitted its application for full membership twenty-four years ago. A number of issues have arisen over the question of whether or not Turkey fulfills the criteria of a nation suited to be a member of the EU, and these span from

    Category:HistoryReads:203Uploaded:10 / 20 / 2011Add to collection
  • NATO's Nuclear Future

    420 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 ± Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org NATO S Nuclear Future: The Alliance s Posture Review, Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe and Arms Control The Brookings Institution July 19, 2011 By Miriam Awadallah The Brookings Institution recently hosted a discussion on the future of nuclear weapons in Europe based on a paper written by Steven Pifer, a Senior Fellow at the think tank and the Director o

    Category:ResearchReads:222Uploaded:07 / 28 / 2011Add to collection
  • Are We Falling Behind on Trade

    420 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 ± Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org Are We Falling Behind on Trade? American Enterprise Institute June 30, 2011 By Christine Hilt US Senator Orrin Hatch gave the keynote address at an AEI event titled Are We Falling Behind on Trade? on June 30 in Washington, DC. The event focused on partisan disagreement over the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, which has been attached as an amendment t

    Category:SpeechesReads:158Uploaded:07 / 20 / 2011Add to collection
  • Navigating EU-Caucasus Integration

    Navigating EU-Caucasus Integration by Jaim Coddington Intern Transatlantic Energy and Environment May 2011 Introduction: Recent events have shown that international cooperation is alive and well. Multinational organizations like NATO and the UN have been at the forefront of peacekeeping and disaster relief efforts throughout the world, and even the most powerful and individualistic states, including the United States, Russia, and China, have endeavored to address issues of global concernthrou

    Category:Business & EconomicsReads:168Uploaded:06 / 03 / 2011Add to collection
  • A Transatlantic Agenda for Natural Gas Supplies

    420 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 ± Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org A Transatlantic Agenda for Natural Gas Supplies: Energy Politics, Market Transformation and New Technologies Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Center for Transatlantic Relations May 3, 2011 Johns Hopkins University held a day-long conference at its Washington DC campus yesterday. Discussants addressed the impact of

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  • Fruits of Our Labor

    420 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 – Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org The Fruit of Our Labor: Afghan Perspectives in Film United States Institute of Peace February 25th, 2011 Christopher R. Mantas The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) held a conference, moderated by USIP Program Officer for Afghanistan, Barmak Pazhwak, about the ongoing mission of Community Supported Film (CSFilm), a documentary film organization aimed at i

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  • Afghanistan--The Nexus between Disarming and Rebuilding Armed Forces

    420 7th Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 – Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org Afghanistan: The Nexus between Disarming and Rebuilding Armed Forces United States Institute of Peace February 3rd, 2011 Christopher R. Mantas The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) hosted an event exploring the challenges which faced the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) and Security Sector Reform (SSR) processes in Afghanistan between 2

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  • Life after START. U.S. and Russian arms reduction initiatives

    Life after START: U.S. Russian Nuclear Reduction effects Co-sponsored by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Thursday, January 27, 2011 Rodolfo L. Velazquez How likely is a nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan on the one hand and China and India on the other? The overall sentiment in the conference concerning a nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan is one of alarm and concern. China's

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  • Life after START with U.S. and Russian Nuclear Reduction effects

    Life after START: U.S. ± Russian Nuclear Reduction effects Co-sponsored by the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Thursday, January 27, 2011 Rodolfo L. Velazquez Some of the key questions that the conference wished to address and discuss were: How likely is a nuclear rivalry between India and Pakistan on the one hand and China and India on the other? The overall sentiment in the conference concernin

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  • The Organization of the Islamic Conference--Fatwas on Freedom and Democracy

    420 7 Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 986-2433 ± Fax: (202) 546-3749 Email: info@streitcouncil.org www.streitcouncil.org th The Organization of the Islamic Conference: Fatwas on Freedom and Democracy The Hudson Institute January 19th, 2011 Christopher R. Mantas Dr. Mark Durie, a theologian and human rights activist, presented an intriguing account of the influence of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the ³UN of Muslim states´ on matters of importance including free

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