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Book: Want, Waste or War?
Want, Waste or War?: The Global Resource Nexus and the Struggle for Land, Energy, Food, Water and Minerals (2015, Routledge) explores the nexus approach, “conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications” and “calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains.” The volume was co-authored by the Center for
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U.S.-Russian Dialogue
On July 27, the Center for the National Interest hosted a delegation of Russian academics as part of its U.S.-Russian dialogue program. This off-the-record event entitled “The United States, Russia, China and the International System” was broken into four panel discussions covering topics such as the BRICS, the SCO and the global order; the Ukraine
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America, Iran, and the Nuclear Talks
On July 17, the Center hosted a lunch panel to discuss the implications of the Iran deal. The panelists included Philip Gordon, a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who served until 2015 as Special Assistant to the President and Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region at
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Syria and the Islamic State: Status and Prospects
On July 13, the Center for the National Interest hosted Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Institute for Oriental Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of Russia’s top experts on the Middle East, and Paul Pillar, a Contributing Editor of The National Interest magazine and a former National Intelligence Officer for the Near
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