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Bridging the Divide on US National Security Priorities
Advancing PSA's bipartisan efforts to promote cross-party dialogue on critical national security subjects, PSA hosted two off-the-record dinners with senior Administration security leaders and Members of Congress in the month of February.
Featured guest speakers:
Ambassador Marc Grossman, US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman
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Senator Alan Simpson: The U.S. Needs the U.N., and the U.N. Needs the U.S.
Jan. 12 marked the second anniversary of the horrific earthquake that ripped Haiti apart. While we quite properly remembered the unthinkable loss of Haitian lives that day, less well remembered were the deaths that same day of more than 100 U.N. officials in the collapse of the building that housed the headquarters of the U.N. mission in Haiti.
They were there in an effort to help the process of nation building in Haiti and to assist with humanitarian relief efforts there. Their deaths remind us that the United Nations and its staff members serve in many difficult places working on the most difficult issues. Their efforts serve us all.
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Iran Vs. The West
PSA Senior Fellow, Laurie Dundon, debates the merits and consequences of the latest sanctions the EU has imposed on Iran.
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Thomas Pickering and William Luers: Envisioning a Deal With Iran
"If you deal in camels, make the doors high," an Afghan proverb cautions. As the dangers mount in the confrontation between the United States and Iran, both sides will have to raise the doors high for diplomacy to work, and to avoid conflict.
A diplomatic strategy must begin with the United States? setting its priorities and then defining a practical path to achieve them. To achieve its top priorities, it will have to learn what Iran needs. Since the United States will not get total surrender from Iran, it must decide what it can put on the table to assure that both sides can reach a deal that will be durable.
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The Latest from the PSA Blog
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Envisioning a Deal With Iran
This article, co-authored by PSA Advisory Board member and former Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering and William Luers, former U.S. Ambassador and President of the United Nations Foundation from 1999 to 2009, originally appeared in the New York Times.
Envisioning a Deal With Iran
IF you deal in camels, make the doors high,” an Afghan proverb cautions. As the dangers mount in the confrontation between the United States and Iran, both sides will have to raise the doors high for diplomacy to work, and to avoid conflict.
A diplomatic strategy must begin with the United States’ setting its priorities and then defining a practical path to achieve them. To achieve its top priorities, it will have to learn what Iran needs. Since the United States will not get total surrender from Iran, it must decide what it can put on the table to assure that both sides can reach a deal that will be durable.
American leaders have been masterly at diplomatic strategies — “building high doors” — to make deals. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened relations with the Soviet Union in 1933 to balance the ascendance of menacing forces in Germany and Japan. He was acting for geopolitical ..
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KORUS Free Trade Agreement: An Agent of Stability
This article was written by two Fall 2011 Fellows in PSA’s Congressional Fellowship Program. All CFP articles are produced by bipartisan groups of Democrat and Republican Fellows who were challenged to develop opinion pieces that reach consensus on critical national security and foreign affairs issues.
KORUS Free Trade Agreement: An Agent of Stability
Almost sixty years ago at the end of the Korean War, the relationship between the United States and South Korea took on a new meaning. The relationship was built on a cooperative framework between allied forces in order to promote stability on the peninsula through a strengthened commitment to the mutual goals of protecting democratic values, peace and economic security.
Within the past few months the United States Congress and the Korean Parliament took large steps in solidifying their commitment to these basic tenants of the U.S.-Korea relationship when they passed the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). Their support of this agreement is evidence that shared economic prosperity is a strong part of the U.S.-Korean relationship. As the political dynamics on the Asian continent continue to change, it is critical that the U.S. maintain and build its relationship with Korea as a means to enhance America’s position to promote political and economic stability in the region.
Most of those who have been following the debate and progress of the long-stalled KORUS FTA have ..
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Crossing the Rubicon
William Cohen is a member of PSA's Advisory Board and former Secretary of Defense (1997-2001). This article originally appeared in The Hill newspaper.
Crossing the Rubicon
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently visited Israel and called for greater engagement between our two countries. Given the fact that it’s difficult to find a closer political bond between two countries anywhere in this galaxy, one would surmise that there’s little distance to travel to cement the relationship between our two democracies. After all, we share similar values, ideals and interests.
There exists, however, a singular and important difference within this triangle of bonded friendship. Israel lives in a neighborhood that is far more unstable than that enjoyed by the United States. The geographic proximity of those whose stated goal is to vanquish the state of Israel — and who could soon have the capacity to do so — causes the Israelis to view threats through a different prism.
Patience and diplomacy might be the virtues of statecraft, but when an avowed enemy is close to placing a nuclear knife on your throat, well, the demands for action are likely to override the pleas for restraint.
Iran has used deceit and obfuscation to paint over the window into their activities. The world is left to speculate whether Iran is a year or more away from putting a nuclear ..
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The Latest From PSA
Brzezinski Says Turkey is the "Key" to the Syrian CrisisAs the civil war in Syria grows and becomes more violent, it gets harder to envision a peaceful resolution. Former National Security Advisor and PSA Advisory Board Member, Zbigniew Brzezinski, says that Turkey may hold the key.
Zbigniew Brzezinski talks about Afghanistan with Charlie RoseFormer National Security Advisor and current member of the PSA Advisory Board, Zbigniew Brzezinski talks with Charlie Rose about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East.
Lee Hamilton Urges Quick Action on Nuclear Waste PlanAfter two years of research, the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, co-chaired by PSA Advisory Board Member Lee Hamilton, said the government has an "ethical obligation" to deal with the country's nuclear waste and to "avoid burdening future generations" with the task.
Brzezinski: Can democracies thrive with financial systems that are out of control?Brzezinski, former National Security Advisory and PSA Advisory Boardmember, is interviewed by Global Viewpoint Network editor, Nathan Gardels.
Iran vs. the WestPSA Senior Fellow, Laurie Dundon, debates the merits and consequences of the latest sanctions the EU has imposed on Iran.
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