Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

July 4, 2009
North Korean Launches Affirm Need for Missile Defense
By Bruce Klingner
(WebMemo #2522)
North Korea’s blatant defiance of yet another UN resolution demonstrates the critical necessity for the U.S. and its allies to have robust missile defense systems ...

July 1, 2009
U.S. Levies Economic Sanctions on North Korea
By Bruce Klingner
(WebMemo #2519)
Hopefully realizing the futility of relying on U.N. actions to constrain North Korean belligerence, on June 30 the Obama Administration imposed unilateral U.S. sanctions on ...

June 1, 2009
The Challenge to Religious Liberty in Indonesia
By Richard G. Kraince
(Backgrounder #2279)
The Indonesia that President Barack Obama knew as a child, with its culture of pluralism and constitutional protections for religious freedom, provides an important model ...

May 28, 2009
Japan's Economic Failure and America's Economic Risk
By Derek Scissors, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2459)
The Japanese economic policy of the past two decades provides a critical example to an America caught in a financial crisis.

May 26, 2009
North Korea's Nuclear Defiance
By Bruce Klingner
(WebMemo #2457)
The U.S. should respond in several ways to North Korea's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.

May 26, 2009
China Global Investment Tracker
By Derek Scissors, Ph.D.
(White Paper )
The China Global Investment Tracker created by The Heritage Foundation is the only available comprehensive dataset relating to large Chinese foreign investments and construction contracts ...

May 26, 2009
China's Military and Security Relationship with Pakistan
By Lisa Curtis
(Testimony )
Pakistan and China have long-standing strategic ties, dating back five decades. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari wrote in a recent op-ed that, "No relationship between ...

May 22, 2009
Japan's Economic Weakness: A Security Problem for America
By Bruce Klingner and Derek Scissors, Ph.D.
(WebMemo #2456)
Japan's dismal economic performance is constraining American efforts to induce Tokyo to adopt a larger security role.

May 15, 2009
U.S.-India Relations: Ensuring Indian Prosperity in the Coming Demographic Boom
By Derek Scissors, Ph.D., and Michelle Kaffenberger
(Backgrounder #2274)
The U.S. has not played an important role in Indian economic development, but could help to identify crucial areas for economic liberalization and establish channels ...

May 15, 2009
Australia Surveys Asia's Future
By Eric Sayers and Walter Lohman
(WebMemo #2449)
The clarity Australia has provided with Force 2030 should serve as both a warning and a guidepost for America's future commitments to the region.

May 14, 2009
Japan's Opposition Buoyed by Leader's Resignation
By Bruce Klingner
(WebMemo #2444)
In the coming months, Japanese politics should garner particular attention from U.S. policymakers who may soon face a new Japanese leadership--one that is willing to ...

May 5, 2009
From Strategy to Implementation: The Future of the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship
By Lisa Curtis
(Testimony )
Developing and implementing an effective U.S. policy toward Pakistan is one of the most complicated yet important foreign policy challenges the Obama Administration faces.  Pakistan ...

May 5, 2009
North Korean Human Rights: Recommendations for the Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress
By Honorable Ed Royce
(Heritage Lecture #1121)
As North Korea marches on with its missile tests, proliferation, and nuclear program, we have muted ourselves on human rights. Morally, that is indefensible, especially ...

May 4, 2009
Reviving Pakistan's Pluralist Traditions to Fight Extremism
By Lisa Curtis and Haider A. H. Mullick
(Backgrounder #2268)
To fend off the growing extremist influence in Pakistan, its leadership should highlight the brutality of the pro-Taliban militants that are gaining ground in the ...

April 22, 2009
Coming to Grips with an Expanding Extremist Threat in Pakistan
By Lisa Curtis
(WebMemo #2403)
The Pakistani people have a deep culture of pluralist traditions dating back centuries. In order to stabilize and develop their country, Pakistanis need to nurture ...

April 10, 2009
Indonesian President Yudhoyono's Big Decision
By Walter Lohman
(WebMemo #2393)
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a clear winner in his country’s April 9, 2009 parliamentary elections. Yet he will need to form a governing ...