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November 13, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
How Can U.S. Intel Training Help Fight Boko Haram?

Jesse Sloman is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations and a reserve officer in the Marine Corps. He served on active duty from 2009 to 2013. The views expressed here are his own. …

US-Nigeria
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

October 30, 2019

Election 2020
Meet Bill Weld, Republican Presidential Candidate

Update: Bill Weld announced on March 18, 2020, that he was ending his campaign.  Bill Weld was the first Republican to officially announce he would challenge Donald Trump for the Republican presid…

Bill Weld
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

October 21, 2011

Elections and Voting
Liberia: Devils and Long Spoons

George Weah, running mate of presidential candidate Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), parades with his supporters during the party's rally in Montrovia October 9, 2011. (Luc…

Liberia: Devils and Long Spoons
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 6, 2005

China
Worrying about debt to China

Jesse Eisinger has a nice Long and Short column exploring CNOOC’s bid for Unocal in the Wall Street Journal. I liked this quote from Lehman’s Ethan Harris:The Cnooc bid "strikes people that we really…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

March 7, 2013

Politics and Government
A Bipartisan Strategy for U.S. Global Leadership

A bipartisan task force calling itself the Project for a United and Strong America (PUSA) released a report today, entitled “Setting Priorities for American Leadership,” outlining its ideas for a nat…

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) before Obama's 2012 State of the Union address (Larry Downing/ Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge