Global Forecast: The Top Security Challenges of 2008 (CSIS Reports) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892065141 ISBN 13: 9780892065141

Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2007

Synopsis

This volume of essays showcases CSIS’s collective wisdom on the most important security issues facing America in 2008—the major political, military, and economic challenges likely to have strategic implications for the nation. Some of these challenges depend on political developments in other countries, while others hinge on U.S. actions. Some are regional in focus; others have transnational or global reach. All have the potential to expand into full-scale crises and must be watched and managed carefully.Top CSIS scholars look at Asia, especially China, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, and Pakistan; Europe, including Russia, Turkey, and Kosovo; Africa (AFRICOM); Cuba; a new climate change framework; nuclear proliferation; the Iraqi refugee crisis; and America at war in Afghanistan and Iraq and the possibility of war with Iran. The main event likely to shape U.S. security in 2008, however, will transpire at home—namely, the U.S. presidential election—where foreign policy will likely play a dominant role. In an afterword, Richard Armitage and Joseph Nye offer their vision of a new approach to U.S. foreign policy that relies on the exercise of “smart power.” America needs such a vision,

About this title

About the Author:

Carola McGiffert is chief of staff at CSIS. Craig Cohen is deputy chief of staff at CSIS.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0892065141
• ISBN 13: 9780892065141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: McGiffert Carola, Cohen Craig