One of the industry's most enduring optimists, Lynch spent 20 years working on energy policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, his alma mater.
Obama is carving out new patterns for U.S. engagement in Asia, says Ernest Bower, a senior adviser and chair for Southeast Asia Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.
Before joining the Administration in 2009, Ambassador Mitchell served as Senior Fellow and Director for Asia in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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The big question is what happens further down the road, said Smith, with the Center for Strategic International Studies.
Dr. ROBERT EINHORN (Senior Adviser, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies): Syria has a chemical weapons capability.
Mr. DAVID McGINNIS (National Security Analyst, Center for Strategic and International Studies): Thank you.
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Mr. JON ALTERMAN (Center for Strategic and International Studies): I've seen peacekeeping forces work.
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Joining me is David McGinnis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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"There are so many moving parts here, " says Karin von Hippel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Malka of the Center for Strategic and International Studies warned that "expectations should be realistic" with any Israeli-Syrian agreement.
"Constructive involvement is a necessity, " says Jusuf Wanandi, head of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta.
Victor Cha, a specialist on North Korea at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sees the matter quite differently.
Vincent Sabathier, director of the Human Space Exploration Initiatives Program at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, is more optimistic.
"The Europeans will put their views to ASEAN, " says Jusuf Wanandi, head of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta.
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Julianne Smith, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says this has made Afghanistan a hard sell back home.
Frederick Barton, a post-conflict reconstruction expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says there was never a clear U.S. strategy for reconstructing Iraq.
Stephen Flanagan, the Henry A. Kissinger chair in diplomacy and national security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, underscored the sense of uncertainty.
"There's a vulnerability in every system, " says James Lewis, researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a public policy research organization in Washington, D.
But Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, an expert who tracks U.S.-Mexican relations for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, doesn't expect NAFTA to be a dominant theme today.
But Heather Conley, director of Europe program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says it's hard to know the far-reaching implications of this one-off deal.
An eloquent case for this is made in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Edward Luttwak, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Observers such as Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, say a wider Mideast conflict could be avoided.
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Oil production is expected to double over the next two years, according to a February report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.
"This campaign has been more of a personality competition rather a debate over the strategic issues facing Israel, " said Malka, the Center for Strategic and International Studies analyst.
Michael Green, a former Bush adviser on Asian affairs now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Seoul's proximity to North Korea contributes to an ongoing unease.
"The military still believed until yesterday, actually, that the 'yellow fever' is coming down, " Harry Tjan Silalahi of Jakarta's Center for Strategic and International Studies says with a laugh.
But Vincent Sabathier of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, says China is being careful not to rile America by talking of a space race.
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