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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…

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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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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…

July 16, 2015

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: Governor Scott Walker, GOP Presidential Candidate

Twelve Americans have become president without having earned a college degree. (Two of them are on Mount Rushmore.) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who studied at Marquette University but left befor…

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker formally announces his campaign for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination during a kickoff rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 13, 2015.

January 13, 2015

Military Operations
Guest Post: Obama’s Legacy-Troop Reductions or Drone Strikes?

Amelia M. Wolf is a research associate in the Center for Preventive Action and the International Institutions and Global Governance Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In its latest edition…

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