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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...