North America

Following the February 2010 rejection of the draft SWIFT agreement on the transfer of information on international bank transfers to US counter-terrorism authorities, the European Parliament approved a new version of the agreement in July 2010.

Start Time: September 14, 2010 - 7:00pm
End Time: September 14, 2010 - 8:30pm
Speaker(s): Jan Philipp Albrecht, MEP (Greens, DE), DOJ Attaché (US mission to the EU), DHS Attaché (US mission to the EU)
Event Fees: none

Join us for a discussion with Frank Gaffney, Founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Co

Start Time: September 20, 2010 - 7:00pm
End Time: September 20, 2010 - 8:00pm
Speaker(s): Frank Gaffney
Event Fees: none

A Break in Israeli-Turkish Relations?

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently announced that, after two months of negotiations, Israel has agreed to an international inquiry on the May 31 deadly flotilla assault.

What's really behind the Gates cuts

Defense Secretary Robert Gates's bombshell announcement that he will close Joint Forces Command as part of sweeping reforms of the defense bureaucracy is being seen around the defense community as a p

Obama and the Middle East

The reported success of the Obama - Netanyahu summit by the mainstream U.S.

Start Time: June 17, 2010 - 8:30pm
End Time: June 17, 2010 - 10:30pm
Speaker(s): Peter Beinart
Event Fees: none

The past two years have marked a new chapter in the U.S.-UN relationship: the U.S.

Start Time: May 26, 2010 - 6:30pm
End Time: May 26, 2010 - 8:00pm
Speaker(s): Gillian Sorensen, United Nations Foundation
Event Fees: none

Intelligence Squared is offering limited complimentary tickets to YPFP Members for the upcoming debate: "OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY SPELLS AMERICA'S DECLINE"

Start Time: May 11, 2010 - 6:45pm
End Time: May 11, 2010 - 8:30pm
Speaker(s): Moderator: John Donvan, For the Motion: Mort Zuckerman, Dan Senor, Against the Motion: Wesley Clark, Bernard-Henri Lévy
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Offshore Drilling: Obama's Burden or Opportunity?

The Obama administration's latest proposal to re-open 500,000 square miles of the United States' Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for oil and natural gas exploitation has livened u

Please join YPFP New York for a discussion about

Start Time: April 29, 2010 - 7:00pm
End Time: April 29, 2010 - 8:30pm
Speaker(s): Suzanne Hall, New Media Advisor, U.S. Department of State - Western Hemisphere Affairs Bureau, Dr. Craig Nevill-Manning, Engineering Director, Google
Event Fees: none

Reforming the Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture: An Opportunity for U.S. Leadership

 
Author: Jeffrey Mankoff
DOI: 10.1080/01636601003673170
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Published in: journal The Washington Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 2 April 2010 , pages 65 - 83

Upcoming Iraqi elections a key turning point

Is a new day slowly dawning for Iraq? In about a week, the Iraqi people will go to the polls once again in perhaps the most important election to date since the 2003 war began.

 

Start Time: March 17, 2010 - 7:00pm
End Time: March 17, 2010 - 8:30pm
Speaker(s): Gordon M. Goldstein
Event Fees: none

Sarah Palin: A Comeback in Sight?

This week, I continue my review of John Heilemann's and Mark Halperin's book,

Coming soon: a new Iran NIE?

The Cable is hearing from multiple congressional sources, diplomats, and former officials that the Obama administration is getting ready to finalize a new National Intelligence Estimate that

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