DUBAI AND THE GULF STATES
July 7, 2010
"A De Facto Partition for Afghanistan"
Op-Ed, Politico
By Robert D. Blackwill, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The Obama administration's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan seems headed for failurewrites Ambassador Robert Blackwill. Given the alternatives, de facto partition of Afghanistan is the best policy option available to the United States and its allies, he believes.
June 28, 2010
"Local and Global Causes of Terrorism"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
The blending of perceived global threats with daily experienced local grievances seems to be a critical mental and political fulcrum in the making of terrorists -- whether they are successful financial analysts in New York or tribal farmers in Yemen, writes Rami Khouri.
June 16, 2010
"An Elegant Account of How Lebanon Works"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
Of all the Middle Eastern political landscapes and their species, the most complex by far -- in the modern Arab statehood era since the 1940s -- is Lebanon. Lebanon has also been the most unstable and violent, while simultaneously providing the Arab world with its finest universities, hospitals, publishing houses, cultural troupes, bankers, entertainment and nightlife, and, in many cases, professionals, such as lawyers, engineers and doctors. Most important of all, Lebanon is unique in the Arab world for providing its citizens a degree of personal freedom from state control that remains unmatched by any Arab state.
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June 8, 2010
"Four Reasons the US Could Get Israel to Talk About a Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction"
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Martin B. Malin, Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom
Martin Malin articulates four reasons the US could get Israel to talk about a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, even in light of the recent furor over Israel's attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla in an Op-Ed in the Christian Science Monitor.
May 20, 2010
The Development of a Gulf Carbon Platform
Working Paper
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
This paper argues that in spite of the extremely high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rates, GCC members will benefit economically, environmentally and geopolitically by constructing a harmonized pan-GCC carbon trading platform that will allow them to make cost-efficient decisions about greenhouse gas abatement.
Summer 2010
Belfer Center Newsletter Summer 2010
Newsletter
By Sharon Wilke, Associate Director of Communications
The Summer 2010 issue of the Belfer Center newsletter features recent and upcoming activities, research, and analysis by members of the Center community on critical global issues. This issue highlights the Belfer Center's involvement with the Nuclear Security Summit, which was organized by Center alumni Gary Samore and Laura Holgate.
Summer 2010
"Dubai Initiative Conference Encourages Middle East Adaptation, Innovation"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
"Innovation and Adaptation in the Middle East"-the Dubai Initiative's annual conference in May-explored unique responses to the challenges facing the region. Topics included state formation and the role of political Islam, the challenges of the "youth bulge" in the region, and the changing financial markets and global economies.
May 17, 2010
"Durable and Vulnerable: The Modern Arab State"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, Middle East Initiative
"Arabs and foreigners alike constantly discuss why the Arab region reflects such a combination of positive and negative factors," writes Rami Khouri. There are many positive and negaitve factors that affect the countries in the arab nation as well as how the world views them. Khouri discerns these factors and discusses the change in their governments over the last 90 years.
May 7, 2010
Carbon capping
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Fellow Justin Dargin speaks to Kipp Report about carbon capping and carbon trading.
April 16, 2010
Could CSP power the UAE?
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Fellow Justin Dargin talks to CSP Today about UAE energy policy.
