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December 5, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Arthur Chaskalson: An Architect of Democratic South Africa

Lawyers can be improbable heroes, but Arthur Chaskalson was one.  He used the law to hobble apartheid and subsequently helped author a post-apartheid legal system that subordinated the parliament to …

SOUTH AFRICA PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI TAKES OATH WITH CHIEF JUSTICE ARTHUR CHASKALSON. 27/04/2004.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

August 15, 2012

Defense and Security
Paul Ryan Likes Bernard Lewis and Free Trade

CNN’s Jamie Crawford has a nice piece summarizing Paul Ryan’s foreign policy views. Besides offering a sense of some of the countries the GOP vice presidential nominee has visited in recent years, th…

Paul Ryan addresses supporters at a rally in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

April 26, 2011

Defense and Security
The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza on Obama’s Foreign Policy

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One at Los Angeles International Airport on April 22, 2011. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker has written his take on President Obama’…

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One at Los Angeles International Airport on April 22, 2011.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 20, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Paul Ryan to Debut House GOP Budget Plan for 2013

Today Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, will debut the Republican proposal for the 2013 federal budget. The budget is expected to propose reforms to the corp…

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and fellow Republican House members hold a press conference in April of 2011 to introduce their 2012 budget proposal.
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

January 10, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: Sen. Arthur Vandenberg’s Conversion to Internationalism

  In a post earlier today, I mentioned that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), a leading isolationist voice on Capitol Hill in the years before World War II, dismissed the Ludlow Amendment as a terrib…

Senator Arthur Vandenberg
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge