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July 23, 2007
A new term has entered the national security lexicon, courtesy of the Pentagon. It's "Phase Zero." And, along with the newly announced AFRICOM or African Command, set to begin operations in late 2008, it has potentially troubling implications for U.S. foreign and development policy, according to CGD...
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April 24, 2006
Three years after the fall of Baghdad, senior Bush Administration officials described the evolving U.S. approach to state failure and post-conflict reconstruction at a half-day symposium co-sponsored by CGD and Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. The event underscored how far the administration has come ...
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April 03, 2006
The gravest dangers to international security come from the world's weakest states. Right? In fact, weak and failing states may be less central to terrorist operations and other global threats than is widely believed. CGD research fellow Stewart Patrick analyzes what types of weak states are associa...
New from CGD
February 13, 2006
As the Bush Administration prepares to announce the reorganization of U.S. foreign assistance, Nancy Birdsall, Stewart Patrick and Milan Vaishnav argue in a new essay that making a dent in global poverty will require that the U.S. address four flaws: low volume and poor quality of aid; incoherence ...
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January 23, 2006
Secretary Rice announced long-awaited plans to reform U.S. foreign aid and named Randall Tobias as director of foreign assistance and deputy secretary of state. Steve Krasner, head of State’s Policy Planning Staff, explained the plan at a CGD event. Reactions to these proposals within the developmen...