David Firestein's recent piece in The Moscow Times, Reset in Danger of Being Set Back, received considerable attention from a number of policy media organizations. A sampling of organizations carrying the piece:
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“En Route,” a popular new Chinese travel magazine, has serialized the 2004 bestselling Chinese-language book, Here and There: 81 Conversations about China and America. Here and There is co-authored by EWI Track 2 Director David J. Firestein and Horizon Polling founder and Chairman Victor Yuan and published by Energy Media.
Five short articles appeared in the latest edition of the magazine, which reaches hundreds of thousands of Chinese readers monthly. In these articles, Firestein and Yuan discuss cultural differences pertaining to such diverse topics as politics, tax policy and corporate culture. The content of Here and There was first serialized in 2004 by Chinese Internet giant Sina.com.
In an Austin American-Statesman op-ed, EWI’s Director of Track 2 Diplomacy David J. Firestein discusses the prospects for the U.S.-China relationship in 2010.
“Mistrust is the most basic problem,” says Firestein, arguing that fundamental cultural differences are a key source of disparate viewpoints. He outlines four major challenges to the relationship: the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, human rights, trade relations and public opinion in the context of the U.S. midterm elections. Though challenging, Firestein remains hopeful about the U.S.-China relationship in 2010.
Voice of America's Russian service quotes EWI's Jacqueline McLaren Miller and Danila Bochkarev in an article about Russian-Italian relations. Miller and Bochkarev discuss the importance of South Stream, the proposed gas pipeline that would connect Russia to Italy through Bulgaria.
"There is a clear political momentum growing for South Stream in Europe. What is in sharp question is the economic momentum," says Miller. "This is an expensive project—some estimates have put it at twice the projected cost of Nabucco."
"There are important cultural and scientific contacts between the two countries," adds Bochkarev. "Italy strongly supports Russia’s integration with the rest of Europe."
The Washington Post quotes EWI Senior Fellow Os Guinness in its coverage of a conference of evangilicals "to search the soul of their movement and find a new way forward."
Guinness's participation at the conference is part of a broader EWI effort to help counter violent extremism and identify ways in which differennt faiths can co-exist in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world.
On October 20, 2009, The Washington Post reported on EWI's recent publication, Reframing Nuclear De-Alert: Decreasing the operational readiness of U.S. and Russian arsenals.
"The study does a good job of trying to move the debate away from the old fear of nuclear forces being on a 'hair trigger alert,'" writes Walter Pincus, author of the Post story.
Placing EWI's study in a broader policy context, Pincus adds: "De-alerting is among the issues being analyzed in the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review. When completed by the end of this year and approved by the White House, the review will set out the administration's strategic nuclear policies, including the appropriate alert levels."
EWI is working to ensure that the report informs these strategic nuclear priorities and paves the way towards more constructive U.S.-Russia relations.
Gazeta.kz, a Kazakh online news service, covers a meeting between EWI President and CEO, John Edwin Mroz, and Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Nikolay Bordyuzha.
Geoffrey Forden on ArmsControlWonk.com writes about the conversation sparked by EWI's U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment on Iran. "It is important that scholars continue to debate the nature and capability of Iran’s missile development program," he writes.
The Russkiy Mir Foundation, a Russian cultural organization, interviewed EWI Vice President Andrew Nagorski about his book, The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II.
This piece appeared shortly before the release of the Russian translation of Nagorski’s book.
