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Understanding regional perspectives is especially important at a time when the United States and others are reappraising their capacity to provide global security and the world faces new transnational challenges along with traditional threats to peace and stability. The United States Institute of Peace releases “Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World,” edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, a new volume that explores how regions define and address challenges to their security and how regional approaches to security increasingly fill gaps that global security institutions cannot.
 

On Thursday, July 29, the co-chairs of a select, bipartisan panel testified that their study of the Defense Department’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) found that without needed reform the All-Volunteer Force may be unsustainable and that the nation needs a new national security strategic planning process that better incorporates civilian departments and agencies.

The United States Institute of Peace has been named to be the official convener of the National Defense Panel, a congressionally mandated independent panel selected to review the Department of Defense's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The Institute most recently served as convener of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States and was one of the conveners of the Iraq Study Group.

Speaking at an exclusive event at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on July 23, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki kept the door open for continuing the U.S. military presence in his country beyond 2011, when the current Status of Forces Agreement expires. “If Iraqi forces need more training and support, we will reexamine the agreement at that time, based on our own national needs,” the prime minister said through a translator, as he addressed nearly 100 audience members at USIP headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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