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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Oct 02, 2009
Bi-monthly newsletter with NATO news and opinion clips
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Posted On: Jul 21, 2009
A report from Brian Katulis, Marc Lynch, Robert C. Adler at the Center for American Progress outlines next steps for the Obama administration to facilitate peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2009
From WorldPublicOpinion.org: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that around the world US foreign policy continues to receive heavy criticism on a variety of fronts, even though in 13 of 19 nations most people say they have confidence in President Obama to do the right thing in international affairs.
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Posted On: Jul 08, 2009
Center for American Progress released this report outlining a strategy for continued U.S. engagement with Russia that supports American ideals and security.
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Posted On: Jun 17, 2009
From Brookings: "On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama delivered an address intended for audiences across the Muslim world from Cairo University in Egypt. The president touched on many aspects of U.S. engagement with the Muslim world, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, violent extremism and Iran's nuclear advances. Prior to the speech, Brookings expert Navtej Dhillon, with Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz, called on the United States to create a new foundation for engagement that...
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Posted On: Jun 11, 2009
"According to a new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of the German public, when President Obama speaks to Germans on Friday, he will encounter an audience that is not only positive about Obama himself, but is beginning to lean positively toward the US as well."
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Posted On: Jun 11, 2009
"A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds Egyptians continue to view US foreign policy quite negatively and see President Obama as closely aligned with it. At the same time, Obama has much better ratings than Bush had, and there are signs of thawing feelings toward the US."
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Posted On: May 14, 2009
U.S. defense commitments with Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines were established at a time when America's allies (in reality, security clients) were poor nations that would have been hard-pressed to defend themselves against any capable adversary. Moreover, the United States undertook defense obligations in East Asia at a time when that region appeared to be a crucial theater in the overall struggle against international communism. In the "East Asian Security Commitments" chapter of t...
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Posted On: May 08, 2009
"In its first 100 days, the Obama administration has had to confront a series of pressing foreign policy and national security issues--North Korean missile launches, a revamping of the war strategy in Afghanistan, the Taliban's continued rise in Pakistan, and, of course, the Iranian nuclear program. As with all new administrations, the issues have come faster than the Obama administration can cope with them. Thus, improvisation has been a major feature of the administration's response--especi...
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Posted On: May 05, 2009
The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking a leader committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts. The Connect U.S. Fund is a foundation/NGO initiative that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world through grantmaking and operations that advance critical foreign policy objectives and support an effective, collaborative community of in...
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Posted On: Apr 14, 2009
Wall Street Jounal op-ed by Jim Wallis and John PrendergastThe stories are beginning to trickle in from displaced-persons camps in Darfur: increasing hunger, epidemics and -- the quietest killer -- a shortage of water in the Sahara.Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His response was to expel international aid agencies that provide a lifeline to Darfurians, and w...
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Posted On: Apr 01, 2009
By: John PrendergastThe time has come to expose a sinister reality: Our insatiable demand for electronics products such as cell phones and laptops is helping fuel waves of sexual violence in a place that most of us will never go, affecting people most of us will never meet. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the scene of the deadliest conflict globally since World War II. There are few other conflicts in the world where the link between our consumer appetites and mass human suffering is ...
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Posted On: Mar 24, 2009
The Center for American Progress' Lawrence J. Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Sean Duggan present recommendations for short-, medium-, and long term goals to secure the peace in Afghanistan by using both civilian and military components of American power.
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Posted On: Mar 23, 2009
By: Colin Thomas-Jensen, Enough Project Policy AdvisorA lasting legacy for Obama in Africa ought not to be defined by a single issue or set of issues, but by the arrival of Africa as an equal partner and important player in global affairs.As the son of an African, President Obama could have a truly transformative effect on the lives of ordinary Africans. His administration will of course work assiduously to address urgent crises in Sudan, DRC, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere. However, given ...
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Posted On: Mar 21, 2009
Guardian (Online), March 20, 2009; Cato Op-ed: Surging toward failure in Afghanistan, by Malou Innocent. (President Barack Obama is soon expected to make a final decision on whether to approve a civilian "surge" of hundreds of additional US officials for the war in Afghanistan.)
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Posted On: Mar 10, 2009
From the Center for U.S. Global Engagement:Over 2000 pages and 500 expert contributors in more than 20 reports released over the past two years have concluded that America needs to strengthen its civilian capacity as a critical part of our foreign policy and national security strategy. This "Report on Reports" identifies major points of consensus across these reports on the issue of strengthening America's civilian capacity for global engagement.
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Posted On: Mar 06, 2009
The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress today released the following statement on the expulsions by the Sudanese government of representatives of international non-governmental organizations, or NGOs:"The Obama administration and the other members of the United Nations Security Council must convey a simple and direct message to Khartoum: Access for relief agencies needs to be immediately restored, or the international community will use all necessary means to restore this acces...
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Posted On: Mar 05, 2009
During the presidential campaign, then-candidate Obama said he would pursue diplomacy without preconditions with the political leadership of Iran. Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding two hearings about U.S.-Iran relations. It is too soon to tell whether the new administration and Congress will continue the failed policies of the last 30 years or move towards the wiser course of normalizing relations. In the "U.S. Policy toward Iran" chapter of the Cato Handbook for Policym...