American Strategy Program: Press

Lugar Introduces Legislation to Extend START Verification Regime | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:58:00 -0500

... telemetry," Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, said on his blog ArmsControlWonk.com. ...

Obama Desperately Needs New Mideast Approach | AFP

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:00 -0500

"The current policy has neither the respect of the Israelis, nor of the Palestinians," according to Amjad Atallah, an expert with the New America Foundation ...

Triple Threat in Tehran | New York Daily News

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:16:00 -0500

As the New America Foundation, which worked with Bloomberg on the probe, put it: "Iran appears to be developing a significant source of uranium - a source ...

Analysts Criticize Administration's Mideast Efforts | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:00 -0500

Daniel Levy, a veteran Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, summed up the administration's efforts in recent days as ...

What Next for Afghanistan? | The Guardian (London)

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:00 -0500

Sameer Lalwani is a research fellow at the Washington-based New America Foundation:

"I think the expectation will be for the Obama administration to leverage pressure on the Karzai government to 'clean up' his governing style but I doubt Karzai will do so, certainly not quickly," said Lalwani.

Iran Boosts Output of Uranium Mine, Satellite Images Show | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0500

... for a covert [uranium enrichment] program,” said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Obama's World Outreach Teetering | Asia Times

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:59:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Iran Raises Uranium Output as Photos Show Need for Wider Checks | Bloomberg

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:40:00 -0500

... seen in pictures obtained by Bloomberg News and the Washington-based New America Foundation, according to four nuclear analysts who examined the images. ...

Obama's Outreach to Muslim World Teetering | Inter Press Service

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:33:00 -0500

... forth a vision of the kinds of relationships he wanted," said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Pakistan: Now or Never? | Reuters

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:29:00 -0500

During his first nine and half months in office, President Barack Obama has authorised as many CIA aerial attacks in Pakistan as George W. Bush did in his final three years, according to a study done by the New America Foundation. So far this year, the administration has sanctioned at least 41 CIA missile strikes inside Pakistan -- a rate of approximately one bombing a week. ... Original Article

Iran Students Carry on Protests | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0500

In a series of opinion pieces and public speeches, Hillary and Flynt Leverett, who have served as Middle East analysts for the CIA, National Security ...

US Sends Mixed Signals About Israeli Settlement Policy | Worldfocus

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:05:00 -0500

Daljit Dhaliwal talks about the latest developments with Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. ...

Iran Pressed on Deal to Ship Nuclear Fuel Abroad | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0500

Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University, ...

One Year of The One | The Economist

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:24:00 -0500

... Yet roughly once a week since that day, he has ordered the assassination of suspected terrorists. These assassinations, carried out with Hellfire missiles fired from hovering drones, are often messy. According to the New America Foundation, a think-tank, it took 15 attempts to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in Pakistan who was finally blown to scraps in August. Hundreds of people, some of them

Pakistan's Other Problem Area: Baluchistan | TIME

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:51:00 -0400

... based on their prior strategic choices," says Sameer Lalwani, a Pakistan watcher at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. ...

Former US official: Resignation Over Afghan War is Drawing Support | CNN

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:35:00 -0400

CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen disagreed with Hoh's assessment of Afghanistan. "It's not that our presence there is causing the problem," he said. ...

UN to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty | IPS

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:41:00 -0400

William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation, told IPS the commitment by the majority of the world's ...

The Vietnam Moment | Financial Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:00 -0400

“My guess is that he'll announce something north of 20000 troops and hope that is enough,” says Peter Bergen, an expert on al-Qaeda, who is urging a ...

Hillary Clinton Wraps Up Tough Mission in Pakistan | The Guardian (London)

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:37:00 -0400

But one recent study by the New America Foundation estimated that US drones have killed between 750 around 1000 people in Pakistan since 2006, ...

Al-Qaida Connection: Foreign Passports Linked to Attacks on West Recovered | The Guardian (London)

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:39:00 -0400

Militancy expert Peter Bergen of the New American Foundation said the fact that the passports were found in Taliban compounds showed how the two ...