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April 21, 2020

COVID-19
Singapore: The Limits of a National Response

The recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Singapore shows that there are limits to what national responses to a global pandemic can achieve. 

Migrant workers look out from their balconies at Punggol S-11 dormitory, during the coronavirus outbreak in Singapore on April 6, 2020.

December 18, 2015

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Democrats and Republicans Have Different Priorities

In a post last week, I noted that polls showed that terrorism has jumped up the priority list for voters and wondered whether it troubled Democrats and Republicans equally. The poll I looked at last …

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May 26, 2015

Iraq
Lost in Iraq

On Sunday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter appeared on CNN’s State of the Union during which he reflected on the performance of the Iraqi Security Forces in the recent battle for Ramadi. “What appare…

Lost in Iraq

March 20, 2015

Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Arming Rebels, Oplan Exodus, and Women and Drone Strikes

Richard Eichenberg, “Do Women Dislike Drone Strikes More Than Other Types of Airstrikes? (yes, but only a little),” Ike’s World of Polls from Tufts, February 27, 2015. (3PA: This gender gap in sup…

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June 19, 2008

China
Four bits of information to help understand China a little better …

Energy use is subsidized – even though China is a net importer of energy. Even after increasing domestic gasoline prices by 17%, Chinese prices will remain below the world market price. The World …