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The World Next Week: Peacekeepers for Libya?

By experts and staff

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
The United Nations Security Council meets at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on July 13, 2011.
The United Nations Security Council meets at the UN Headquarters in New York on July 13, 2011. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I talked about the UN Security Council’s discussions of operations in Libya; how Republican presidential hopefuls are reacting to the news from Tripoli; and the likely resignation of Japan’s prime minister.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110824_TWN…]

The highlights:

The Telegraph discusses the Libyan rebels’ seizure of Qaddafi’s Tripoli compound, and the New York Times reports on Qaddafi’s continued defiance. The Washington Post’s “The Fix” rounds up the responses of Republican presidential hopefuls to the fall of Tripoli, but Politico points out that most of the candidates have responded by a move known as the “duck, cover.” The New York Times says that Prime Minister Kan is likely to resign by the end of August, while the Washington Post reports that Moody’s Investors Service has cut Japan’s bond rating to Aa3.