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November 10, 2008
"Joy in America"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"George W. Bush and his band of zealots used the anger-based emotional high after 9/11 to simultaneously misdiagnose themselves, their enemies, their friends and their place in the world. Consequently, they pursued catastrophic domestic and foreign policies. Obama must beware such pitfalls. He and his senior officials must understand more accurately how the United States and the world actually interact, in good times or bad, in order to forge policies based on credible analyses that are free of self-congratulatory emotionalism or pride."
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November 7, 2008
"America Needs a New Style of Leadership: It's Time to Retire the 'Big Man,' Heroic Warrior Model of Leadership"
Op-Ed, U.S. News and World Report
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"Smart warriors, however, know how to lead with more than just the use of force. As Gen. David Petraeus demonstrated in Iraq, hearts and minds also matter, and smart warriors need the soft power of attraction as well as the hard power of coercion. Indeed, an oversimplified image of warrior-style leadership in President Bush's first term caused costly setbacks for America's role in the world. It is not a manly modern Achilles or the strongest alpha male who makes the best warrior leader in today's communication age. Military leadership today requires political and managerial skills...."
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November 7, 2008
"The New President and the Future of American Power"
Op-Ed, Daily Star
By Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
"The challenge for Barack Obama is that more and more issues and problems are outside the control of even the most powerful state. Although the US does well on the traditional measures of power, those measures increasingly fail to capture much of what defines world politics, which, owing to the information revolution and globalization, is changing in a way that prevents Americans from achieving all their international goals by acting alone....As the world's largest economy, American leadership will remain crucial. The problem of American power in the wake of the financial crisis is not one of decline, but of a realization that even the most powerful country cannot achieve its aims without the help of others. Fortunately, Barack Obama understands that."
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November 6, 2008
"Use Campaign Energy for Government's Real Work"
Op-Ed, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By Debra K. Decker, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2006–2011 and Regina Ryan
"Instead of outsourcing government work to private companies, the Barack Obama administration should devise a program to bring private individuals in, not as costly contractors, not as stifled civil servants, but as low-paid but happy "volunteers." There are only limited opportunities available now....These would be people who may not want to have a 20-year career in government but who like the idea of service and have the skills so needed in government today...."
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November 5, 2008
"Pride and Shame in American Politics"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"The deeper hurtful reality this election campaign has revealed is that Arabs and Muslims are the new Jews and Blacks in America, because they are treated today in the same way that Jews and Blacks (then called Negroes) were treated throughout the early- and mid-20th Century."
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November 4, 2008
"Financial Leaders Go AWOL in the Meltdown"
Op-Ed, Bloomberg
By Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"What's happening is a crisis of capitalism, though not because there is a debate about the ultimate virtues of capitalism over socialism -- that argument is long over. Rather, the failure of business leadership on an almost cataclysmic scale has brought front and center the issue of how government should rein in business."
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November 3, 2008
"Power-sharing and Conflict Resolution"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"This region needs and deserves more peaceful methods of resolving conflicts, after having been transformed in the past decade into a severe maelstrom of political violence, war, invasions, occupation, terrorism and resistance that have been practiced in various forms by local governments, opposition groups, and foreign armies alike."
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October 30, 2008
"The Stimulus Plan We Need Now"
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
"Further legislation to deal with the economic crisis should not wait until the new president takes office. Fortunately, the president-elect will be a senator and can propose legislation without waiting to be sworn in as president. Immediately after Nov. 4, the winner could, and should, take the lead in the legislative process."
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October 27, 2008
"Engage China in Nuclear-Proliferation Issue"
Op-Ed, The Providence Journal
By Xiaohui (Anne) Wu, Former Associate, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2007–2010; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2004–2007
"Because of its perceived balanced stance on North Korea and Iran, China occupies the formidable middle ground and could play a constructive role in facilitating a solution that avoids full-scale crisis. The United States should encourage China to continue its constructive intervention: no nuclear-weapons program, no escalating confrontations, but continued, flexible dialogue....The United States can facilitate China’s efforts on regional arms control and security by maintaining consistent standards. Supporting nuclear trade with India, which stands outside of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, blurs those standards...."
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October 26, 2008
"The pendulum swings towards regulation"
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
"We need to reform tax incentives that encourage financial risk taking, regulate leverage and prevent government policies that give rise to a toxic combination of privatised gains and socialised losses. This offers the prospect of a prosperity that is more firmly grounded and more inclusive."
