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November 12, 2015

China
G20: Preparing for the Next Crisis

The leaders of Group of Twenty (G20) meet this weekend in Antalya, Turkey. The agenda is long, the ambitions are modest, and it is easy to be cynical that the group has outlived its usefulness. Still…

December 4, 2014

United States
This Week: Mubarak’s Acquittal Challenged and Israel’s Government Dissolves

Significant Developments Egypt. Egypt’s top prosecutor announced Tuesday that he plans to appeal an Egyptian court’s dismissal of all remaining charges against former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. …

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters as he returns to Maadi military hospital in Cairo November 29, 2014 (Waguih/Courtesy Reuters).

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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June 15, 2016

Europe
The Pain in Spain Is Easy To Explain

A few weeks back, the New York Times looked at the “mystery” of Spain’s high level of unemployment. The article highlighted a real debate about the right level of job protection in Spain, and in Eur…

Employment vs. Demand

March 2, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Israel, Iran, and Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Somalia

Jeffrey Gettleman, “Africa’s Dirty Wars,” The New York Review of Books, March 2012. I saw how hollow such leadership can be when I attended an expensive Darfur peace conference in Sirte, Libya,…

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