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The World Next Week: What Next for Libya?

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Anti-Gaddafi fighters sit on an SA-5 SAM missile in Burkan air defense military base, which was destroyed by a NATO air strike, September 1, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Anti-Qaddafi fighters sit on a missile in Burkan air defense military base on September 1, 2011. (Goran Tomasevic/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Stewart Patrick and Bob McMahon discussed the economic plan President Barack Obama will unveil next week; a new proposal in the House that may slash funding for the United Nations; international talks about post-Qaddafi Libya; and a new round of sanctions leveled against the Assad regime.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20110901_TWN…]

The highlights:

Reuters analyzes the pressures Obama is under from the left to lay out a bold new jobs plan, and the Atlantic looks at the different proposals Obama might pitch. Bloomberg covers the new Republican plan in the House that seeks major changes at the UN and threatens deep funding cuts. Business Week discusses the role that Iraq’s lessons may play in thinking about Libya’s future, and the Associated Press reports on the outcome of the conference on Libya that took place today in Paris. The Wall Street Journal covers the European Union’s new deal to expand the sanctions on Syria to include new measures like an oil embargo, and my colleague Elliott Abrams considers different ways that the Assad regime might crumble.