Read DI Fellow Stephen Ramos' new policy brief "Generative Infrastructural Urbanism in Dubai" here.
Upcoming Events
- DI Fellow Haroon Ullah will discuss Islamist political parties on December 3, 2008.
- Marat Terterov of the Energy Charter Secretariat will discuss Russia's Gulf strategy on December 5, 2008
- DI Fellow Stephen Ramos will present on Dubai's generative infrastructural urbanism on December 8, 2008
- Gary Sick will discuss security, Iran, and the Gulf on December 8, 2008
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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November 12, 2008
"Global Threats, Coordinated Responses"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Network of Global Agenda Councils is one example of how like-minded people around the world can address the growing challenges and threats that are no longer confined to a single sector, country or region."
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November 10, 2008
"Joy in America"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"George W. Bush and his band of zealots used the anger-based emotional high after 9/11 to simultaneously misdiagnose themselves, their enemies, their friends and their place in the world. Consequently, they pursued catastrophic domestic and foreign policies. Obama must beware such pitfalls. He and his senior officials must understand more accurately how the United States and the world actually interact, in good times or bad, in order to forge policies based on credible analyses that are free of self-congratulatory emotionalism or pride."
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November 5, 2008
"Pride and Shame in American Politics"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The deeper hurtful reality this election campaign has revealed is that Arabs and Muslims are the new Jews and Blacks in America, because they are treated today in the same way that Jews and Blacks (then called Negroes) were treated throughout the early- and mid-20th Century."
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November 3, 2008
"Power-sharing and Conflict Resolution"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"This region needs and deserves more peaceful methods of resolving conflicts, after having been transformed in the past decade into a severe maelstrom of political violence, war, invasions, occupation, terrorism and resistance that have been practiced in various forms by local governments, opposition groups, and foreign armies alike."
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October 29, 2008
"Six for Six"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"Somalia seems to offer more intriguing evidence about how governments often must come to terms with militias, insurgent forces and other such informal armed groups in countries around the Arab-Asian region -- and the roles these entities play where formal governments appears unable to deliver the basic requirements of statehood."
October 27, 2008
"Israeli Words or Actions?"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Israeli expressions of interest in the Arab peace plan are hard to fathom in terms of their seriousness, motivation or intent."
October 22, 2008
"Can Iraq End the Colonial Era?"
Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The wider issue at stake beyond American soldiers in Iraq is the effective end of the colonial era mentality that put Western troops and officials above the law, and kept indigenous Arab and Iranian national interests subservient to the greater colonial dictates of powers like England, France and, today, the United States."
October 16, 2008
"A Carbon Market for the Gulf"
By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
DI Fellow Justin Dargin, explores carbon finance in the Gulf in this recent article in Italy's Nuova Energia (New Energy) News Magazine. For the full text, click here.
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October 8, 2008
"Rebuilding the Iraqi Oil Industry: Legal and Constitutional Strategies for Sustainable Post-Saddam Development"
By Justin Dargin, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In Chapter 5 of Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq: Policies, Programs and International Perspectives, DI Fellow Justin Dargin argues that "without a viable legal framework, Iraq will find it difficult to attract the investment capital necessary for sustainable nationwide development and petroleum production."
Click here to access the full text.
