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October 8, 2018
Women and Women's Rights
Iceland’s Lessons for the #MeToo Era
What can the #MeToo movement learn from Iceland? The history of successful women’s protests show that mass mobilization is key.
December 20, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
Iceland, Palestine, and Israel
Iceland recently recognized Palestine as a state. As I noted in The Weekly Standard, according to Iceland, Palestinian sovereignty includes 100 percent of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. Palestine,…
July 2, 2012
Europe and Eurasia
"Iceland's Post-Crisis Miracle" Revisited
Back in July 2010, we produced a post examining the “Icelandic Post-Crisis Miracle,” as proclaimed by Paul Krugman. We showed that Krugman’s “miracle” was merely an artifact of comparing changes …
October 13, 2008
Europe and Eurasia
Iceland in Crisis
The U.S. has left Russia to bail out Iceland with a $5.5 billion loan, even though the U.S. economy is over 11 times the size of Russia's. Is Iceland really of no strategic interest, despite specul…
May 17, 2008
Capital Flows
Norway was against Iceland before it was for Iceland
In 2006, Norway’s Government Pension Fund (Global) -- managed by Norges Bank Investment Management – famously bet against Iceland’s banks. Norway claimed this was just business; Norges Bank believed…