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Author:: Reuel Marc Gerecht
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: George Tenet's departure from the Central Intelligence Agency provides an opportunity to properly assess and repair the agency's weaknesses, but real reform requires confronting the entrenched bureaucracy and strengthening the clandestine service in order to infiltrate and thwart terrorist organizations.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: John R. Lott Jr. and Eli Lehrer
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Despite promises to the contrary by gun-control advocates, many nations have found that increasing restrictions on guns—and even banning them outright—actually increases the number of violent crimes committed.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: R. Glenn Hubbard
Publication Date:: 07-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: To prevent the costs of entitlement programs from overwhelming the federal budget and sapping our economy's vitality, we must encourage individual savings and reduce benefits for the wealthy.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Newt Gingrich
Publication Date:: 06-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: President Ronald Reagan's philosophy, accomplishments, and style framed public policy debates in ways that helped propel Republicans into today's governing majority.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Reuel Marc Gerecht
Publication Date:: 06-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: The Iraqi interim government must confront the frustrations of the Sunnis, the Shia, and the Kurds—the country's three main population groups, which share memories of suffering under Saddam Hussein and impatience to take responsibility in the longer-term government of a new Iraq.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: Iraq and Kurdistan

Author:: Irving Kristol
Publication Date:: 06-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: President Ronald Reagan led the West to victory in the Cold War by defying establishment critics. Ignoring those who advocated détente with the Soviet Union, he rebuilt America's military. In spite of those who scoffed at his economic program, his policies reinvigorated the U.S. economy. Together, these restorations of American strength hastened the Soviet collapse.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: United States, America, and Soviet Union

Author:: James K. Glassman
Publication Date:: 06-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: When a group of nine of the world's leading economists recently recommended spending priorities for addressing global challenges, they ranked the fight against HIV/AIDS and the promotion of free trade far above strategies to alleviate global warming, thereby paralleling President George W. Bush's priorities for international aid.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Michael Rubin
Publication Date:: 06-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Iraqis initially greeted U.S. soldiers as liberators, but as the occupation has continued, the paternalistic approach of the Coalition Provisional Authority has bred resentment and stunted the development of responsible local institutions. Democracy in Iraq can only succeed if Iraqi citizens are allowed control over the political process as their country nominally regains sovereignty.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: United States and Iraq

Author:: Charles Murray
Publication Date:: 05-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Owning great art need not be beyond the reach of the general public. The technology exists to create highquality reproductions of artworks, but thus far it has not been widely utilized due to the art world's conflation of the pleasure of being in the presence of a historic object with the pleasure derived from being in the presence of great art.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics

Author:: Thomas Donnelly
Publication Date:: 05-2004
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract:: Although U.S. forces removed Saddam Hussein's regime in record time, completing regime change in Baghdad and spreading democracy and stability in the greater Middle East will require an open-ended commitment and more political resolve than currently demonstrated within many circles in Washington.
Topic:: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
Political Geography:: United States, Washington, Middle East, and Baghdad

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