ISD Reports

America's Role in the World

A Dangerous Inheritance: Converging Challenges that Will Face the Next American President
April, 2007 [download]

America's Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next President
February, 2008 [download]

Characteristics of an Emerging World: Assumptions about the Drivers of Change
February, 2007 [download]

Domestic Challenges to America's Capacity to Conduct Foreign Policy
June, 2007 [download]

Associate

A Deal With the Devil
April 2, 2007 [download]

Challenging the Red Line between Intelligence and Policy
April, 2004 [download]

China's WMD Foot in the Greater Middle East's Door
September, 2005 [download]

Could 5,000 Peacekeepers Have Saved 500,000 Rwandans? Early Intervention Reconsidered
April, 1997 [download]

Deja Vu
November, 2004 [download]

Euro-Atlantic Security and the Value of NATO
April, 1995 [download]

Fading Fast: Langley, We Have a Problem
May 14, 2006 [download]

Forget Gaddafi, U.S. should talk to North Korea
March, 2005 [download]

Iraq: Policy and Perceptions
2007 [download]

Moldova Matters: Why Progress is Still Possible on Ukraine's Southwestern Flank
March, 2005 [download]

NSC Directorate for Nation Building--Good News for S/CRS
April, 2009 [download]

Oil for Missiles
January, 2006 [download]

Paradoxical Pakistan
Summer, 2005 [download]

Putin's Foreign Policy toward North Korea
March, 2006 [download]

Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to be Done to Get It Right
March, 2007 [download]

Sino-American Relations: In Search of Direction
September, 1996 [download]

Stabilizing Lebanon: Peacekeeping or Nation-Building
August, 2007 [download]

Sustaining Global Democratization: Nation Building and Intervention
February, 2003 [download]

Sustaining Global Democratization: Priority Task Now More Than Ever
January, 2002 [download]

The Burden of Strategy: Transatlantic Relations and the Future of NATO Enlargement
November, 2008 [download]

The essence of the Nobel Prize must be restored
October, 2004 [download]

The Mayor of Ar Rutbah
November/December, 2005 [download]

The Millennium Challenge Account: Spur to Democracy?
April, 2005 [download]

The Perilous Tokyo-Pyongyang Rift
December, 2004 [download]

They're Supersizing the Baghdad Embassy. Big Mistake
2004 [download]

Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East: Strategic Contest
2005 [download]

What Are the U.S. Military Options Against Iran?
March 9, 2006 [download]

Board

Bridge the Gap between West, Muslim World
October, 2004 [download]

Bush in Normandy
May, 2004 [download]

Keep Iraq Above Politics
March, 2004 [download]

Thinking About Iran
January, 2004 [download]

Democratization

Sustaining Global Democratization: Nation Building and Intervention
February, 2003 [download]

Sustaining Global Democratization: Priority Task Now More Than Ever
January, 2002 [download]

Discourse, Dissent, and Strategic Surprise

Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998: Adapting U.S. Intelligence and Policy-Making to the Challenges of Global Economics
February 27, 2006 [download]

Discourse, Dissent, and Strategic Surprise: Formulating US Security Policy in an Age of Uncertainty
2007 [download]

Iran: Intelligence Failure or Policy Stalemate?
November, 2004 [download]

Iran: The Struggle for Domestic Consensus
February, 2009 [download]

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979: Failure of Intelligence or of the Policy Process?
September 26, 2005 [download]

The 1998 Terrorist Bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: Failures of Intelligence or of Policy Priorities?
March 14, 2005 [download]

US and Soviet Proxy War in Afghanistan, 1989-1992: Prisoners of Our Preconceptions?
November 15, 2005 [download]

ISD Edward Weintal Awards

America's Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs Reporting, and Diplomatic Capital
May, 1995 [download]

ISD Iden Lecture

Force and Diplomacy in the 21st Century
November, 1994 [download]

The United States, the United Nations, and the Crisis in the Broader Middle East
November, 2007 [download]

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Three Lines of Defense
June, 1996 [download]

ISD Report

America's Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs Reporting, and Diplomatic Capital
May, 1995 [download]

America's Role in the World: Foreign Policy Choices for the Next President
February, 2008 [download]

Checklist for the Future of Intelligence
1995 [download]

Could 5,000 Peacekeepers Have Saved 500,000 Rwandans? Early Intervention Reconsidered
April, 1997 [download]

Diplomacy in a Dangerous World: A Conversation with America's Top Diplomats
January, 2008 [download]

Euro-Atlantic Security and the Value of NATO
April, 1995 [download]

Force and Diplomacy in the 21st Century
November, 1994 [download]

Getting the Best--Is This the Best Way?
November, 2000 [download]

Haiti: A Case Study in Post-Cold War Peacekeeping
October, 1995 [download]

Sino-American Relations: In Search of Direction
September, 1996 [download]

Sustaining Global Democratization: Nation Building and Intervention
February, 2003 [download]

The China Challenge and the U.S. Response
October, 1997 [download]

The Diplomatic Lessons Learned from the Renewal of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
January, 1996 [download]

ISD Trainor Lecture

The Diplomatic Lessons Learned from the Renewal of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
January, 1996 [download]

Schlesinger Working Group

A Turning Point for Turkey
2001 [download]

Are We Taking China's Future for Granted?
2003 [download]

Challenges for a New Administration
2000 [download]

Challenges to Freedom's March: Regional Democracy Trends and US Foreign Policy
2007 [download]

Climate Change and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Heat is On
Spring, 2008 [download]

Colombia at the Crossroads
2000 [download]

Engaging Putin's Russia: Challenges and Opportunities for the West
2005 [download]

Indonesia in Transition
1999 [download]

Russia's Southern Neighbors
2001 [download]

Strategic Surprises for a New Administration
2004 [download]

Strategic Surprises that May Face the Obama Administration
February, 2009 [download]

Surprises, Challenges and Opportunities Since September 11
2002 [download]

U.S.-European Relations
2002 [download]

Unintended Consequences of an Expanded U.S. Military Presence in the Muslim World
2003 [download]

Security and Diplomacy in the 21st Century

Diplomacy and Security in the Twenty-first Century
March, 2009 [download]

Staff

A Dubious Template for US Foreign Policy
Spring, 2005 [download]

Conference Report: The U.S. in a 21st Century World: The High Cost of Low Investment
November, 2000 [download]

Democracy May be the Best Ally Against Pakistan's Extremists
March, 2009 [download]

Ellsworth Bunker--Global Troubleshooter, Vietnam Hawk
Fall/Winter, 2003 [download]

Getting the Best--Is This the Best Way?
November, 2000 [download]

Hamas, Israel, and the Prospects for Peace
Summer/Fall, 2006 [download]

How Terrorism Affects American Diplomacy
March, 2004 [download]

India Abroad Interview's Howard Schaffer on Kashmir
June, 2009 [download]

India and Pakistan: A Time of Uncertainty
February, 2009 [download]

Iran's election is a fraud
June 16, 2005 [download]

Kashmir's fuse alight
September, 2008 [download]

Strategy, Power and Diplomacy: The Key to Effective Statecraft
November, 2007 [download]

The African Brain Drain: Crisis or Concern?
Summer, 2006 [download]

The Art of Peace: Bringing Diplomacy Back to Washington
July/August, 2007 [download]

The China Challenge and the U.S. Response
October, 1997 [download]

The President's Choices in Iraq
November 29, 2006 [download]

The US must continue to do the right thing for global democrats
July, 2004 [download]

U.S. Should Pay Greater Attention to Pakistani-Indian Rift Over Kashmir
September, 2008 [download]

Visit to Pakistan and India, January 2007
February, 2007 [download]

Talking with the Islamic World

Final Report, Talking with the Islamic World
May, 2002 [download]

How American and Foreign Media Present America
March, 2002 [download]

Projecting a Positive American Image
April, 2002 [download]

U.S. Image in the Islamic World
February, 2002 [download]

UN Forum

America's Interests in the United Nations
April, 2005 [download]

Taking the U.N. Seriously
December, 2004 [download]

US Power

The Use of U.S. Power: Implications for U.S. Interests
May, 2004 [download]

Yahoo! Education and Research

How the Georgetown Community Views the Internet: A Three Module Wiki-based Survey in Early 2008
May, 2008 [download]

Information, Identity and Institutions: How Technology Transforms Political Power in the World
April, 2008 [download]