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November 13, 2009: When Generals and Ambassadors Feud

By James Dobbins (ForeignPolicy.com)

November 9, 2009: The Fall of the Wall: A World Restored?

By Christopher S. Chivvis (CNN.com)

November 4, 2009: Our Man in Kabul

By James Dobbins (Foreignaffairs.com)

November 2, 2009: Karzai's Second Term a Test for International Community

By Terrence K. Kelly (RAND.org)

October 30, 2009: Price of Intoxication: The Case for a Minimum Price for Alcohol

By Lila Rabinovich (RAND.org)

October 27, 2009: Keeping Our Allies on Our Side in Afghanistan

By Leo Michel, Robert E. Hunter (Los Angeles Times)

October 20, 2009: Biden's Task in Eastern Europe: Reassurance

By F. Stephen Larrabee, Christopher S. Chivvis (The Christian Science Monitor)

October 19, 2009: Prime Numbers: Doped

By Beau Kilmer, Peter H. Reuter (Foreign Policy)

October 17, 2009: Human Side of Katrina Recovery Still Needs Work

By Anita Chandra, Joie Acosta (Montgomery Advertiser)

October 14, 2009: Five Questions President Obama Should Ask in His Visit to New Orleans

By Melissa Flournoy (The Times-Picayune)

October 14, 2009: Fighting Terror the Cold War Way

By Todd C. Helmus, Dalia Dassa Kaye (ForeignPolicy.com)

October 13, 2009: The Great Silencing: Intolerance and Censorship in the Arab World

By Cynthia P. Schneider, Nadia Oweidat (CNN.com)

October 9, 2009: Innovation Means More Than Something New

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Economist.com)

October 7, 2009: Afghanistan: Echoes of Vietnam

By James Dobbins (The Huffington Post)

October 5, 2009: How to Tell if We're Winning the Afghan War

By Nora Bensahel (The Providence Journal)

October 2, 2009: Path to a Pashtun Rebellion in Afghanistan

By Seth G. Jones (Washington Post online)

October 2, 2009: China: Self-Perception vs. Outside Perception

By Michael J. Lostumbo (World Journal)

September 30, 2009: Finding a Solution to Iran

By Alireza Nader (RAND.org)

September 25, 2009: Green Buildings, Jobs and Summits

By Charles P. Ries (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

September 24, 2009: G-20 Growing Pains

By Lowell H. Schwartz (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

September 22, 2009: The Right Move in Europe: Improved Opportunities with NATO, Russia

By Christopher S. Chivvis (The Washington Times)

September 21, 2009: Real Threats, Real Fears, Real Defenses

By James Dobbins (International Herald Tribune)

September 19, 2009: Getting to Know Pittsburgh: The City Has Embraced Me ... and Now the World?

By Susan S. Everingham (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

September 17, 2009: Capitalism Still Works: Our Economy Will Recover Because We Are Innovators and Entrepreneurs

By Krishna B. Kumar (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

September 11, 2009: Collateral Damage in the Ruckus Over Healthcare Reform

By Steven M. Asch, Karl Lorenz, Diane Meier (CNN.com)

September 9, 2009: Finally, Presidential Support for the Individual Mandate

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn (NYTimes.com)

August 29, 2009: Stick to Facts to Find Health-Care Change That Works

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Jeffrey Wasserman (The Tennessean)

August 26, 2009: How Russia Can and Can't Help Obama

By Brian Michael Jenkins (ForeignPolicy.com)

August 21, 2009: Fix the Healthcare System (and Fight the Recession, Too)

By Dana P. Goldman, Neeraj Sood (CNN.com)

August 19, 2009: Co-Ops: A Very Tall Order

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn (Washington Post online)

August 14, 2009: Limited Options: Deterring North Korea and Iran

By Lowell H. Schwartz (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

August 8, 2009: Going Local: The Key to Afghanistan

By Seth G. Jones (The Wall Street Journal)

July 30, 2009: The Decline of Racial Profiling

By Greg Ridgeway, Nelson Lim (CNN.com)

July 14, 2009: Alabama's Challenge: Better Prepared Workforce

By Melissa Flournoy (Montgomery Advertiser)

July 6, 2009: Russia and the Perils of Personal Diplomacy

By F. Stephen Larrabee (NYTimes.com)

July 5, 2009: Mullah Sprung from Gitmo Jail Now Leads Foe in Afghan Campaign

By Seth G. Jones (New York Post)

July 3, 2009: On Dry Land - The Onshore Drivers of Piracy

By Peter Chalk, Laurence Smallman (Jane's Intelligence Review online)

June 30, 2009: Policing Pakistan

By C. Christine Fair (Wall Street Journal Asia)

June 29, 2009: Can Gitmo's Terrorists Be Rehabilitated?

By Aidan Kirby Winn (The Christian Science Monitor)

June 24, 2009: The Public Option: Sorting Rhetoric from Reality

By Elizabeth A. McGlynn (ABC News online)

June 23, 2009: Improve Health, Not the Health Care System

By Dana P. Goldman (NYTimes.com)

June 22, 2009: Iran's Real Winners: The Revolutionary Guards

By Alireza Nader (RAND.org)

June 15, 2009: Getting Value from the U.S.-ROK Summit

By Bruce W. Bennett (The Korea Herald)

June 15, 2009: BRIC-à-Brac

By Andrew S. Weiss (ForeignPolicy.com)

June 10, 2009: Lebanon Vote Tilts to the West

By Aram Nerguizian, Ghassan Schbley (The Washington Times)

June 5, 2009: Living with the Outcome: Elections in Lebanon

By Aram Nerguizian, Ghassan Schbley (GlobalSecurity.org)

June 2, 2009: No Surprise in Failure To Deter N. Korea

By Bruce W. Bennett (Chicago Tribune)

June 2, 2009: Rethink Washington's 'War of Ideas'

By Christopher Paul (The Christian Science Monitor)

May 30, 2009: A Better Bargain for Aid to Pakistan

By C. Christine Fair (The Washington Post)

May 29, 2009: Public Libraries Are Needed Now More Than Ever

By Susan S. Everingham, Sally Sleeper (Pittsburgh Business Times)

May 19, 2009: The Cracks in Data Privacy

By Lorenzo Valeri, Neil Robinson (European Voice online)

May 17, 2009: Countering the Military's Latest Fad: Counterinsurgency

By Celeste Ward (The Washington Post)

May 14, 2009: Assessing Mexico's Narco-Violence

By Benjamin Bahney, Agnes Gereben Schaefer (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

May 12, 2009: Pakistan, Taliban and Global Security – Part II

By Robert D. Blackwill (YaleGlobal Online)

May 6, 2009: The Future of US-India Relations

By Robert D. Blackwill (Financial Times online)

May 4, 2009: Opposing View: Keep Arms Off Ships

By Peter Chalk (USA Today)

April 30, 2009: Swine Flu: A Real Security Threat

By Melinda Moore (The Baltimore Sun)

April 29, 2009: Limiting Treatment to Those Who Need It

By Dana P. Goldman (KQED online)

April 27, 2009: European Union at Cross Purposes in Kosovo

By Christopher S. Chivvis (GlobalSecurity.org)

April 27, 2009: Redefining 'Old Age': 60 Is the New 40

By Linda G. Martin (Shanghai Daily)

April 21, 2009: Who Has the Will to Fight Piracy?

By Brian Michael Jenkins (GlobalSecurity.org)

April 17, 2009: Leaving the Nest

By Christopher S. Chivvis (The National Interest online)

April 14, 2009: South Asia's Taliban Problem

By Seth G. Jones (NYTimes.com)

April 9, 2009: Seeking New Approaches to Old Problems

By Melissa Flournoy (Sun Herald - Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi)

April 9, 2009: N.K. Provocation Suggests Regime in Trouble

By Bruce W. Bennett (The Korea Herald)

April 6, 2009: Obama's Turkish Dilemma

By F. Stephen Larrabee (CNN.com)

April 3, 2009: Afghanistan Is NATO's Most Important Challenge

By Robert E. Hunter (RFERL.org, the website of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty)

April 3, 2009: Piracy Still Threatens the Freedom of the Seas

By Peter Chalk, Laurence Smallman (RFERL.org, the website of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty)

April 2, 2009: Space: The Final Junkyard?

By Caroline Reilly, Peter D. Zimmerman (CNN.com)

April 1, 2009: Virginity Pledges Work for Some Teens

By Steven Martino (The Providence Journal)

April 1, 2009: The Torture Debate, Redux

By Brian Michael Jenkins (GlobalSecurity.org)

March 26, 2009: Ultimate Exit Strategy

By Karl F. Inderfurth, James Dobbins (International Herald Tribune)

March 24, 2009: France's Creeping Reintegration

By F. Stephen Larrabee (GlobalSecurity.org)

March 24, 2009: Iran's New Contender

By Alireza Nader (Project Syndicate)

March 10, 2009: U.S.-NATO Immersion Course

By Robert E. Hunter (The Washington Times)

March 5, 2009: Is Iraq Safe Yet?

By Lowell H. Schwartz (Project Syndicate)

March 4, 2009: Afghanistan: The Regional Solution

By F. Stephen Larrabee (CNN.com)

March 3, 2009: Wanted Dead or Alive? When We Don't Get Our Man

By Benjamin Runkle (International Herald Tribune)

March 3, 2009: To Talk With Iran, Stop Not Talking

By James Dobbins (The Washington Post)

February 27, 2009: Power to the People: Rebooting Conventional Diplomacy

By Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell (The Huffington Post)

February 23, 2009: In Afghanistan, It's Deadly at the Top

By Cheryl Benard (Los Angeles Times)

February 22, 2009: A Trans-Atlantic Moment

By F. Stephen Larrabee (The Washington Times)

February 16, 2009: Obama's Foreign Policy Team and U.S.-Korean Relations

By Chaibong Hahm (Joangang Ilbo)

February 15, 2009: Going the Distance

By Seth G. Jones (The Washington Post)

February 13, 2009: What the Israeli Right Owes to Hamas

By Claude Berrebi (ForeignPolicy.com)

February 13, 2009: Could Mexico Fail?

By Brian Michael Jenkins (Homeland Security Today)

February 9, 2009: Asia's Nonproliferation Laggards: China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia

By Charles Wolf, Jr. (Wall Street Journal Asia)

January 22, 2009: The Secret Briefing Obama Needs on Day One

By Gregory F. Treverton (ForeignPolicy.com)

January 21, 2009: A Smarter Economic Stimulus Package

By Martin Wachs (CNN.com)

January 16, 2009: Challenges Ahead for the EU's Security and Defense Policy

By Christopher S. Chivvis (GlobalSecurity.org)

January 14, 2009: Defeating Hamas Will Not Defeat Iran

By Dalia Dassa Kaye (ForeignPolicy.com)

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