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September 12, 2013

Middle East and North Africa
Syria: The (Non-Chemical) Killing Goes On

The emphasis on the need to stop the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is understandable. We all want to maintain the international taboo on their use. But people killed by the Assad regime are…

March 18, 2011

Economics
A New Chapter in U.S.-Brazil Economic Relations

As Obama heads to Brazil this weekend, much has been made of the trade agenda. 

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff

August 30, 2016

U.S. Foreign Policy
The Syria Red Line, Three Years Later

It was three years ago, Labor Day weekend in 2013, that President Obama reversed himself and refused to enforce his "red line" against use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime. What’s the outc…

February 8, 2017

Monetary Policy
Does Korea Operate A De Facto Target Zone?

Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute has long argued for target zones around the major exchange rates. In the past twenty years, no G-3 economy has followed Bergsten’s policy advice.* The world’s …

Does Korea Operate A De Facto Target Zone?