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December 1, 2008: Grab Vital Habitat Now: How Riverside County Can Step Up Conservation While Land Prices Are Down

By Lloyd Dixon (PE.com, the website of The Press-Enterprise)

November 25, 2008: Piracy Needs Regional Answer

By Peter Chalk (United Press International)

November 16, 2008: Obama's First International Crisis

By Brian Michael Jenkins (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

November 11, 2008: Talk to the Taliban? Not Now

By Cheryl Benard (United Press International)

November 9, 2008: Know Your Enemy: From Iraq to Afghanistan

By Benjamin Bahney, Renny McPherson (Washington Times)

November 4, 2008: Getting the Count Right

By Ian P. Cook (CNN.com)

October 30, 2008: Creating Health ID Numbers Could Improve Patient Privacy

By Richard Hillestad (The Hill)

October 22, 2008: It's 2018, and the Economy's Hot...

By Jonathan Grant (Research Fortnight)

October 6, 2008: Georgia Dispute Derails Bid to Stop Nuke Terrorism

By Brian Michael Jenkins (Providence Journal)

September 28, 2008: War's Invisible Wounds

By Terry L. Schell, Terri Tanielian, Lisa H. Jaycox (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

September 11, 2008: Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?

By Brian Michael Jenkins (United Press International)

September 11, 2008: A Nuclear 9/11?

By Brian Michael Jenkins (CNN.com)

September 9, 2008: A 'Europe Whole and Free and at Peace'

By Robert E. Hunter (Providence Journal)

September 7, 2008: Ukraine: The Next Crisis?

By F. Stephen Larrabee (Project Syndicate)

August 29, 2008: Too Soon to Judge the Surge

By Nora Bensahel (San Diego Union-Tribune)

August 28, 2008: Georgia: Breakdown of Vision the West Had for a New Europe

By Robert E. Hunter (European Affairs)

August 25, 2008: Kosovo and South Ossetia More Different Than Similar

By Olga Oliker (RFERL.org, the website of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty)

August 24, 2008: Change Choices, Not Conversation

By Melissa Flournoy (Monroe (LA) News Star)

August 24, 2008: Turkey's Second Chance

By F. Stephen Larrabee (Washington Times)

August 7, 2008: Probing Why Women Kill in Iraq

By Farhana Ali (Middle East Times)

August 6, 2008: Stop the 'War' on Terror: Calling It a 'War' Is a Boon to Terrorist Recruiters

By Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki (Christian Science Monitor)

July 30, 2008: Dressed To Kill: Why the Number of Female Suicide Bombers is Rising in Iraq

By Farhana Ali (Newsweek)

July 29, 2008: Colonel Cardinal's Iceberg Theory

By Dick Hoffmann (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

July 25, 2008: Turkey's Broadening Crisis

By F. Stephen Larrabee (International Herald Tribune)

July 15, 2008: How to Save Karzai

By Seth G. Jones (Foreign Policy)

July 9, 2008: U.S. Science is Holding its Own: Despite Cries of Alarm, We Remain the Global Leader in Innovation

By Titus Galama, James Hosek (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

July 3, 2008: The North Korean Human Rights Standoff

By Chaibong Hahm (PacNet)

June 30, 2008: Dealing with Iran: The Case for Talking

By James Dobbins (International Herald Tribune)

June 17, 2008: China's Responsibility to Protect

By David C. Gompert (Washington Post)

June 12, 2008: Hezbollah's Armory Up for Debate

By Theodore W. Karasik, Ghassan Schbley (United Press International and the Middle East Times)

June 6, 2008: A Chance in Lebanon; No Place for Tyrants

By Theodore W. Karasik, Ghassan Schbley (International Herald Tribune)

June 5, 2008: Lean Thinking Comes to the Battlefield

By Eric Peltz, Rick Eden (Forbes)

June 1, 2008: Invisible Wounds of War

By Kayla M. Williams (Voices of Tomorrow)

May 29, 2008: Russian Soccer Diplomacy

By Lowell H. Schwartz (Washington Times)

May 7, 2008: Give Them Sabbaticals

By Laura Miller (USA Today)

April 29, 2008: Afghan Progress Spotty but Hopeful

By Obaid Younossi, Peter Dahl Thruelsen (Providence Journal)

April 25, 2008: A House of Tribes for Iraq

By Theodore W. Karasik, Ghassan Schbley (Washingtonpost.com)

April 22, 2008: Good Morning, Syria! – Time to Revisit Our Axis of Evil List?

By Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell (Providence Journal)

April 19, 2008: A Better Way to Pay for Prescriptions

By Dana P. Goldman (Providence Journal)

April 13, 2008: Iraq Needs an Ownership Surge

By Joseph Konzelmann, Clare Lockhart (Washington Times)

April 10, 2008: The New Deterrence: Overwhelming and Searching Retaliation

By Elbridge Colby (Weekly Standard)

April 7, 2008: Real Roles, Missions Debate

By Andrew R. Hoehn, David Ochmanek (Washington Times)

April 3, 2008: Iraq's Sunni Time Bomb

By Matthew Sherman (New York Times)

April 1, 2008: America is Making a Difference in Eastern Afghanistan

By Seth G. Jones (Globe and Mail)

March 27, 2008: Georgia on Their Mind

By F. Stephen Larrabee (International Herald Tribune)

March 21, 2008: Danish Cartoons Doom Us All

By Farhana Ali (United Press International)

March 19, 2008: Finding Common Ground in an Uncommon Nation

By Edward O'Connell, Cheryl Benard (Malibu Magazine)

March 13, 2008: A New National Strategy for Korea: North Korea Threats Require Deterrence, Reconciliation

By Bruce W. Bennett (Korea Herald)

March 7, 2008: A Post-Musharraf Pakistan Policy

By Farhana Ali (Washingtonpost.com)

February 27, 2008: Why We Need to Nail Osama

By Elbridge Colby (Washington Times)

February 25, 2008: An Independent Kosovo Was a Part of the U.N.'s Plan

By James Dobbins (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

February 24, 2008: To Support Democracy in Pakistan

By C. Christine Fair (Washington Times)

February 23, 2008: Concrete Closets Under Manufactured Homes Could Save Lives

By Charles Meade (Tennessean)

February 1, 2008: Clarifying the Yuan Debate

By Charles Wolf, Jr. (Far Eastern Economic Review)

January 17, 2008: Not That Bad a Legacy, After All

By James Dobbins (International Herald Tribune)

January 17, 2008: Throw Out the Inside Traders

By Lawrence Zicklin (Washingtonpost.com)

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