Eric Lief is a contributer to a new report released by the Kaiser Family Foundation on Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Global Health.

The complete report can be found here: http://www.kff.org/globalhealth/upload/8247.pdf

Caitlyn Antrim testified before the House Sub-Committee on Energy and Mineral Resources to discuss US interests in joining the Law of the Sea Convention and the Extended Continental Shelf. Caitlyn is the Executive Director of the Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans.

Her official

Ellen Laipson authors an article for Foreign Affairs on the new crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Summary: Nayef's appointment as Saudi heir apparent doesn't mark the start of a transition of power from the older generation to a younger, more liberal one. In fact, Nayef is more

Managing Across Boundaries Fellow Rachel Stohl was quoted on Erin Burnett's CNN show OutFront about the conviction of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout on November 02, 2011.

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Barry Blechman was referenced in Heather Hulburt's article in The Guardian on military action against Iran.

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Gordon Adams was quoted by Spencer Ackerman in his Danger Room blog post on the US defense budget.

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Barry Blechman was quoted in Jim Lobe's piece in Aljazeera on the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs passing two bills that would impose new sanctions on Iran.

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Michael Krepon published an opinion piece in DAWN on the varying pace of nuclear arms buildup in Pakistan and India.

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Late last week, BFAD's Gordon Adams was quoted by Congressional Quarterly in an artice entitled, In Downsizing Defense, Politics Trumps Strategy. Adams opines on the political jockeying that is the backdrop of the current defense build-down.

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Barry Blechman, along with Ruth Greenspan Bell, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Micah Ziegler, graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote an opinion editorial in Foreign Affairs magazine on the upcoming

Cuts in military spending are at the center of the deficit-reduction debate. This New York Times exclusive analyzes "What We Bought," a new report authored by Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense Co-Director Russell Rumbaugh.

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Recently, BFAD's Matthew Leatherman was quoted by a piece in The Hill entitled, White House sides with Senate on bill to freeze defense spending. Leatherman believes that the Administration's support of a "hard defense freeze" ensures that the current defense build-down will more or

Recently, Stimson Distinguished Fellow, Gordon Adams was quoted in a Defense News piece entitled Alternative Views Emerge in U.S. Budget Debate. Adams comments that today's defense build-down is relatively modest when compared with past reductions, and tightening the Pentagon's belt

Ellen Laipson was a guest on NPR's On Point, hosted by Tom Ashbrook, to speak about President Obama's recent decision to remove US troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.

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Alison Giffen was recently quoted in the NPR article "Uganda Mission Part Of Military's Wide Reach" by Alan Greenblatt. Giffen spoke to President Obama's recent decision to send 100 US troops into Africa to assist regional forces combating the Lord's Resistance Army.

To read the

Gordon Adams was recently quoted in an article for the National Journal entitled, The End of the Affair. In the acticle, Adams opined that U.S. influence in the Middle East is not what it was. Regional governments now have more say in directing their own affairs.

To read the full

Senior Associate William Durch spoke at the Managing Global Order and Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement event United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Fit for Purpose?  The October 18 event discussed critical issues facing United Nations peacekeeping operations, and

United Daily News journalist Liu Ping spoke with Stimson Center's Alan Romberg on his thoughts regarding President Ma's controversial announcement on a possible peace treaty with Mainland China and how Beijing will respond.

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Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay spoke to the Permanent Mission of Poland to the United Nations at a UN Security Council Resolution 1540 side-event titled "Advancing international cooperation and assistance in the national implementation of UNSCR 1540/1977." Finlay's

Managing Across Boundaries Director Brian Finlay was published in The Washington Times, writing on the need to understand the interconnections between today's transnational threat portfolios and to better leverage our limited resources to more effectively overcome challenges that