DUBAI AND THE GULF STATES
March 11, 2008
Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership Development-Young Leaders
Agenda
Agenda for Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership
Development-Young Leaders
Performance Management
6th -7th January, 2008
March 11, 2008
The Frontiers Leadership Development Program - DEWA
Agenda
Agenda for The Frontiers
Leadership Development Program - DEWA
Performance Management
8 - 9 January, 2008
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February 29, 2008
"Oil for Nukes — Mostly a Bad Idea"
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Matthew Fuhrmann, Affiliate, Project on Managing the Atom
"...In 1975, France signed an agreement with Iraq authorizing the export of a research reactor and highly enriched uranium. According to French officials at the time, their aim was to obtain a permanent and secure oil supply from a country that provided 20 percent of its oil.
It worked. But it also had tremendous consequences for international and regional security."
February 6, 2008
"Power and Authority Reconfigured"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The reconfiguration of power and authority is the big, new, historic and pervasive macro-development now taking place in Arab society, as the prevailing power structure of the past 75 years reaches the limits of its abilities. Not surprisingly, concerned citizens, agile gangs and efficient businessmen alike are moving in to grab their share of power in those spaces where the state is retreating, or franchising its own legitimacy and authority. Handled wisely, this could be a heartening and positive development that allows Arab society to define itself according to the consensus views of its pluralistic citizens -- unless American, British, Israeli or other Western armies invade again and try to re-configure us to their liking, rather than to our rights and wishes.
Mathias M
January 30, 2008
"Making a Great Arab City"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The people and leaders of Dubai might consider defining their "model" not in terms of what they have built with concrete and steel, but rather in terms of what their new urbanism can now contribute to the rest of the world in the realm of ideas, knowledge, culture, and universal human norms. I, for one, am cheering for them to succeed.
Winter 2007-2008
"Center Welcomes House and Speedie as Senior Fellows"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
David Speedie and Karen Elliot House are welcomed to the Belfer Center as Senior Fellows.
Winter 2007-2008
"November Conference to Examine Middle East Progress, Conflict"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
On November 8, the Belfer Center's Dubai Initiative and the Dubai School of Government will sponsor a conference titled The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict. Speakers and panelists at the conference will provide a framework for analyzing the divergent trends at play in the Middle East through academic discussions and policy-making debates.
September 25, 2007
The Wider Dilemma of Iraq
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
September 11, 2007
Six Years After 9/11
Magazine or Newspaper Article
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
BEIRUT -- This week’s sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States sees the top American military and diplomatic officials in Iraq speaking to the US Congress about American strategy in Iraq. The juxtaposition is noteworthy: Six years ago, a small band of Al-Qaeda militants attacked the United States and killed some 3000 people. Today, an army of over 160,000 American troops wages a war in Iraq that has seen tens of thousands of people killed since 2003. Neither policy makes much sense to anyone in the world, other than to those fanatics on both sides who decided to pursue these actions.
November 2007
The Middle East: Between Progress and Conflict
Agenda
The Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center and The Dubai School of Government are pleased to announce their first joint conference at the Kennedy School of Government, scheduled to take place on November 8, 2007.
