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The World Next Week: Biden Abroad, Mubarak on Trial, Ames Straw Poll

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Vice President Joe Biden waves before boarding a plane at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv March 11, 2010. (Ronen Zvulun/courtesy Reuters)
Vice President Joe Biden waves before boarding a plane at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 11, 2010. (Ronen Zvulun/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Asia; the resumption of the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak; this weekend’s Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa; and Germany’s observance of the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110811_TWN…]

The highlights:

CFR’s Elizabeth Economy and Evan Feigenbaum weigh in on what Biden can expect to find during his Asian tour. The BBC has the African perspective on the Mubarak trial, while Bloomberg looks into what the trial says to Middle Eastern monarchs. George Will at the Washington Post weighs in on the Ames Straw Poll and the Wall Street Journal’s “Washington Wire” has the scoop on former Governor and Straw Poll winner Mike Huckabee’s encore visit to Ames. To learn more about Germany’s observance of the 50th anniversary of the construction of its famous wall, check out the site the city has created in honor of the event and the New York Times’s preview of Berlin’s remembrance.