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    Women This Week: Iranian Climber Competes Without Headscarf, Some Fear Reprisals
    Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers October 15 to October 21.
    Blog Post by Caroline Kapp October 21, 2022 Women Around the World
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    Podcast with James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon September 8, 2022 The World Next Week
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    How NATO Will Change if Finland and Sweden Become Members
    NATO leaders are gathering in Madrid for their annual summit, and two Nordic states are making their case for membership as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on. Here’s what alliance enlargement would mean.
    In Brief by Jonathan Masters June 29, 2022
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    Violence Against Women: Beyond Multilateral Virtue Signaling
    Multilateral institutions often focus on rhetoric over action in countering violence against women. States inclined to do better should take matters into their own hands and adopt feminist foreign policies. 
    Blog Post by Chelsea Thorpe December 17, 2019 The Internationalist
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    Five Questions on Feminist Foreign Policy: Margot Wallström
    This post is part of an interview series on Gender Equality in Foreign Policy, featuring global and U.S. officials leading initiatives to promote gender equality in their fields.
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    In 2014, Margot Wallström, former minister for foreign affairs of Sweden, made headlines around the world as Sweden became the first country in the world to formally adopt a “feminist foreign policy…
    Event with Margot Wallström October 1, 2019 Women and Foreign Policy Program
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    Turkish, Russian and Iranian leaders meet over the war in Syria, Sweden eyes populism amid new general elections, and President Trump’s tariffs could hit $200 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese imports.
    Podcast with Robert McMahon and James M. Lindsay September 6, 2018 The World Next Week
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    Women This Week: Codifying Consent
    Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering May 26 to June 1, was compiled with support from Alexandra Bro, Rebecca Hughes and Rebecca Turkington.
    Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein June 1, 2018 Women Around the World
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    Why You Need American Dollars to Mint Australian Ones
    All countries with central banks exercise monetary sovereignty, right?  Nobel economist Paul Krugman certainly thinks so.  “Wow,” he wrote, after reading Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds say otherwise i…
    Blog Post by Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies June 6, 2011 Geo-Graphics
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