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FOUR MORE YEARS

Forward? Barack Obama's Second Term

IISS senior staff members Dana Allin and Mark Fitzpatrick discuss the role that relations with Republicans in Congress – and with Iran – will play during US President Barack Obama’s second administration.

ADELPHI BOOK

Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity

Dana Allin and Erik Jones discuss the myriad challenges that America faces if it wishes to maintain its role as the world's policeman, when it faces such difficult economic challenges at home and when the rest of the world is less inclined to cooperate with it.

The Myths of October

Fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, lessons are still being learned, old myths still persist, and new evidence is emerging.

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IISS-US Adelphi Book Launch - Syria's Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant
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19 June 2013, Washington DC
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Interpreting the Iranian Election

US Foreign Policy & Transatlantic Affairs

'One thing that has truly remained constant…[is] the enormous contribution that the IISS makes to the global public policy debate.'

FOUR MORE YEARS

Forward? Barack Obama's Second Term

ADELPHI BOOK

Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity

The Myths of October

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IISS-US Adelphi Book Launch - Syria's Uprising and the Fracturing of the Levant

Interpreting the Iranian Election

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