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December 6, 2016

Development
Five Questions on Innovative Finance With Georgia Levenson Keohane

This post features a conversation with Georgia Levenson Keohane, executive director of the Pershing Square Foundation, adjunct professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School, and author o…

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May 10, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Where the Presidential Race Stands With Six Months to Go

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Joe Biden and Donald Trump remain locked in a tight contest where third-party candidates could deci…

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May 17, 2024

Election 2024
Election 2024: Biden Raises Tariffs on China

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: President Joe Biden imposed new tariffs on Chinese imports, raising tensions with Beijing and slowi…

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December 6, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Gender Progress in Georgia

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering November 29 to December 5, was compiled w…

Georgia's president-elect Salome Zurabishvili during an interview in Tbilisi, Georgia. December 1, 2018.

April 14, 2016

Conflict Prevention
Guest Post: Preventing Another Russia-Georgia Confrontation

Shahin Badkoubei is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. The next twelve to eighteen months will be a critical test of already tense and tenuous relati…

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October 3, 2012

Politics and Government
Georgia’s Election Brings New Hope for Democracy

More than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Georgia passed an important democratic milestone this week when the opposition party won the  parliamentary elections and…

Supporters of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition celebrate exit poll results in Tbilisi. (David Mdzinarishvili/ courtesy Reuters)