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with Prince Charles

Avoided Deforestation Partners founder Jeffrey Horowitz presents a letter from Senator Patrick Leahy to Charles, Prince of Wales, announcing a significant increase in U.S. funding for tropical forest protection at St. James Palace, London. Avoided Deforestation Partners and its allies had worked closely with Leahy and other officials to secure the funding, which was announced by U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman at a special meeting convened by Prince Charles on November 19.

Featured Asia Program Commentaries

From Kabul to Kashmir, op-ed by Selig Harrison in Newsweek, 11/13/09

The Ethnic Split, op-ed by Selig Harrison in The Nation, 10/21/09

Features

Obama backing of Honduras election crimps Latin ties, Ambassador Robert White quoted in Bloomberg, 11/27/09

President Obama and the Intelligence Community: An Interim Report Card, commentary by Mel Goodman in Truthout, 11/24/09

Updating Incorporation Transparency Laws, analysis by Raymond Baker in the Huffington Post, 11/24/09

Chavez troops blow up two foot bridges to Colombia, Adam Isacson quoted in Bloomberg, 11/20/09

Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music, Wayne Smith quoted in The New York Times, 11/18/09

Border program has vague goals, little oversight, Tom Barry quoted in the Arizona Daily Star, 11/15/09

Illicit Money: Can it be stopped?, analysis by Raymond Baker and Eva Joly in the New York Review of Books, 12/03/09

Publications

U.S. Cuban Cooperation in the face of Hurricanes and other Natural Disasters, IPR by Ted Carroll and Wayne Smith, November 2009

The Twilight of the North American Treaty Organization , chapter from "Nato After Sixty" (Kent State Press, 2009) by Mel Goodman (August 2009)

New Policies for a New Administration - Partnership with Haiti,
Policy Report by Robert Maguire, Spring 2009

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Program Highlights

Asia
From Kabul to Kashmir, op-ed by Selig Harrison in Newsweek, 11/13/09

US to Karzai on Afghan elections: congratulations, now shape up, Selig Harrison quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 11/02/09

Pakistan's other problema area: Baluchistan, Selig Harrison quoted in Time, 11/01/09

The Ethnic Split, op-ed by Selig Harrison in The Nation, 10/21/09

Selig Harrison, CIP Asia Program director, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on 06/17/09. Click here for transcript of testimony

Central America
Obama backing of Honduras election crimps Latin ties, Ambassador Robert White quoted in Bloomberg, 11/27/09

Honduras Revisited, commentary by CIP President Ambassador Robert E. White, 11/09

My Thoughts on Honduras, commentary by CIP President Ambassador Robert E. White, 11/09 (version en español)

The Return of Mel Zelaya, commentary by CIP President Ambassador Robert White, 09/22/09

Honduras' coup must not stand, op-ed by CIP President Ambassador Robert White and Glenn Hurowitz in the LA Times, 08/31/09

Cuba
Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music, Wayne Smith quoted in The New York Times, 11/18/09

The Embargo on Change, Wayne Smith quoted in Foreign Policy, 10/28/09

Galveston major learned a lot from Cuba trip, Wayne Smith quoted in Fox 8, 10/22/09

Domestic Challenges put brake on U.S.-Cuba thaw, Wayne Smith quoted in Reuters, 10/09/09

Global Financial Integrity
Updating Incorporation Transparency Laws, analysis by Raymond Baker in the Huffington Post, 11/24/09

Illicit Money: Cant it be stopped?, analysis by Raymond Baker and Eva Joly in the New York Review of Books, 12/03/09

Foreign Tax Cheats find U.S. banks a Safe Haven, GFI program mentioned in Time, October 29, 2009

Getting Personal: From Switzerland to Panama, with Cash, Tom Cardamone quoted in The Wall Street Journal, 09/15/09

The GFI program co-sponsored: "The Link between Iran and Venezuela: A Crisis in the Making?" Briefing by Robert Morgenthau New York County District Attorney on September 8. Click here for Morganthau's remarks

US tax investigators win fight to force UBS to disclose accounts worth $18bn, Tom Cardamone quoted in The Guardian, 08/19/09

Latin America Security
Chavez troops blow up two foot bridges to Colombia, Adam Isacson quoted in Bloomberg, 11/20/09

Chavez tells Venezuela to ready for war with Colombia, Adam Isacson quoted in Bloomberg, 11/09/09

En America Latina no hay carrera armamentista, Adam Isacson quoted in El Tiempo, 11/05/09

In Latin America, weapons buying spreads mistrust, Adam Isacson quoted in The Miami Herald, 11/01/09

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National Security
President Obama and the Intelligence Community: An Interim Report Card, commentary by Mel Goodman in Truthout, 11/24/09

Revisiting the Rehabilitation of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, commentary by Mel Goodman in Truthout, 11/13/09

Obama's timid use of the "reset button," commentary by Mel Goodman in Truthout, 11/05/09

Obama's choises in the Afghan War, letter to the editor by Landrum Bolling in the New York Times, 10/30/09

Defense Secretary Gates is not a Diplomat, op-ed by Mel Goodman in Truthout, 10/28/09

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