The World Next Week: March 13, 2009
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
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A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
Lee Wells of the Touch Foundation discusses his work on training health workers in Tanzania and how the United States can most efficiently use its global-health aid dollars.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Health
L. Bennett Graham of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty expresses concern about a recent UN resolution on defamation of religions, saying it may provide cover to states that attempt to censor peaceful religious speech.
See more in Human Rights, Religion
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
An inside look at the March/April 2009 of Foreign Affairs.
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
Suzanne Nossel, a human rights advocate, and Jonah Blank, chief South Asia adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discuss how Pakistan may be a crucial test for the Obama administration as it pursues a "smart power" approach to foreign policy.
See more in United States, Pakistan, Terrorism
This audio includes readings of selected articles from the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs.
See more in Financial Crises, International Peace and Security
From the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs: What we know about modernization.
See more in Democratization, Economic Development
From the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs: Power plays in the Indian Ocean.
From the March/April 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs: The current U.S. financial crisis is not like Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s.
See more in Japan, Financial Crises
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
Pessimism runs deep as the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan presses on, but one U.S. Army colonel sees reason for optimism in the local leaders he helped train.
See more in Afghanistan, Wars and Warfare
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
CFR health expert Laurie Garrett says the start of a new U.S. administration amid a global economic crisis offers an opportunity to reform the system for delivering foreign aid.
See more in United States, Foreign Aid
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org and the Economist.
Two Africa experts urge the incoming Obama administration to focus on resolving Africa's disastrous conflicts, and finding a way to sustain development on the continent.
See more in Africa, Elections, Peacemaking
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