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Making New Revolutions in Biology Safe

Foreign policymakers should assert a greater role in helping prevent potential abuses of new advances in biology, writes CFR's Laurie Garrett.

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Foreign Affairs: Laurie Garrett Biology's Brave New World

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Around the Web: National Academies Synthetic Biology for the 21st Century

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Let Pakistan’s Taliban Talks Fail Without Us

President Obama should ease drone strikes on Pakistani Taliban while pressing Prime Minister Sharif to find ways to unite mainstream Pakistanis in the fight against violent extremism, writes CFR’s Daniel Markey.

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Around the Web: Amnesty U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan

CFR Transcript U.S.-Pakistan Relations

CFR Interactive Pakistan Crisis Guide

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Fears of Fraying U.S.-Turkey Ties

A number of diplomatic challenges, including disagreements over the crisis in Syria, could threaten years of improving U.S.-Turkey relations, says CFR’s Steven A. Cook.

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Foreign Affairs: Piotr Zalewski Turkey's Imperfect Peace

Around the Web: Daniel Dombey Doubts over Turkey’s Ties to the West

Around the Web: CRS Turkey: Background and U.S. Relations

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Time Ripe for Iranian Nuclear Accord?

A deal to tame Iran's nuclear program is within sight, but a number of potential pitfalls, including an untimely increase in U.S. sanctions, could derail diplomacy, says expert Suzanne Maloney.

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Around the Web: Economist The Best v. The Not-Too-Bad

Op-Ed: Ray Takeyh The World Must Tell Iran: No More Half Steps

Op-Ed: Fred Kaplan A Reasonable Iran?

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Is the Security Council Still Relevant?

The UN Security Council is the premier global body for maintaining international peace and security, but faces steady calls for reform to better meet twenty-first-century challenges, explains this Backgrounder.

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Around the Web: What’s in Blue 2013 Security Council Elections

Around the Web: John Bellinger The Security Council Resolution on Syria: Is it Legally Binding?

Op-Ed: Richard N. Haass What International Community?

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters Opening Global Markets to Greater Competition by Thomas Bollyky
Economic Development Mike Theiler/Courtesy Reuters The Role and Evolution of the World Bank by Jonathan Masters
Middle East Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Ending Gaza's Isolation is Necessary for Peace by Robert M. Danin
International Finance Yuri Gripas/Courtesy Reuters The Case for a Global Network of Swap Lines by Robert Kahn
Iran CFR A Look at Its Regime and Nuclear Program by CFR.org Editorial Staff
Energy David McNew/Courtesy Reuters The Case for Allowing U.S. Crude Oil Exports by Blake Clayton
United States Ali Jarekji/Courtesy Reuters The Future of Special Operations Forces by Linda Robinson
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No Exit from Pakistan by Daniel Markey
The story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan.

Two Nations Indivisible by Shannon K. O'Neil
A roadmap for the United States' greatest overlooked foreign policy challenge of our time--relations with its southern neighbor.

"We need to be realistic about our ability to dictate events in Syria."Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser

October 23, 1983
A truck bomb at a Marine compound in Beirut kills 241 U.S. service personnel.

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Making New Revolutions in Biology Safe

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