Managing fragile states – preventing state fragility and engaging in “reconstruction and stabilization” activities when states slip into internal conflict – is much on the minds of policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic.  Afghanistan may dominate the media in the immediate future, but Haiti, Yemen, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, the Congo, and a dozen other spots [...]

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BERLIN — On September 11, Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch politician who likened the Koran to Mein Kampf, will speak in New York on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, warning about the supposed dangers of Islam and the building of a “ground-zero mega-mosque.” That the proposed structure is neither [...]

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