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November 19, 2008
Foreign Affairs
A year ago, Senator Barack Obama first described how he would confront the foreign policy challenges he would inherit if elected president in "Renewing American Leadership." On January 20, he will tackle a range of complex issues while being constrained by the worst financial crisis to emerge since the Great Depression.
Foreign Affairs has compiled a collection of articles that offer policy prescriptions to some of the world's most pressing problems.
Richard Haass on navigating a nonpolar world.
Hillary Clinton on security and opportunity for the twenty-first century.
Bill Richardson on a realistic and principled foreign policy.
Richard Holbrooke on the next president's daunting agenda.
Stephen Sestanovich on how to rebuild U.S-Russia relations.
Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid on ending chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
James Grant on helping the U.S. economy right itself.
Daniel Kurtzer on fixing Washington's muddled Middle East policy.
Paul Collier on how to solve the global food crisis.
J. Brian Atwood, M. Peter McPherson, and Andrew Natsios on making foreign aid a more effective tool.
Charles Kupchan on why a league of democracies won't work.
Stephen Biddle, Michael O'Hanlon, and Kenneth Pollack on how to leave a stable Iraq.
Carter Bales and Richard Duke on containing climate change.
Kenneth Roth on why the United States should turn terrorism suspects over to its criminal justice system.
Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal on how Washington must lead the way to a world without nuclear weapons.
John Ikenberry on the rise of China and the future of the west.
Vali Nasr and Ray Takeyh on the costs of containing Iran.
Laurie Garrett on reforming world public health systems.
Andrew Natsios on resolving the north-south conflict in Sudan.
Jorge Castañeda on restoring U.S-Latin America relations.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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