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March 4, 2008

Emerging Markets
The great emerging market inflation of 2007 and 2008

In a recent FT oped on China, Ken Rogoff had a great one-liner:"Those who think inflation is caused by too little pork rather than too much money are wrong."Replace pork - culturally inappropriate fo…

March 4, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: What If Qaddafi Is Right?

Qaddafi leans on the shoulders of President of Yemen Saleh and then-Egyptian President Mubarak during the second Afro-Arab Summit in Sirte. (Asmaa Waguih/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. In the mid…

Qaddafi leans on the shoulders of then Egyptian President Mubarak and President of Yemen Saleh during the second Afro-Arab Summit in Sirte

December 5, 2014

You Might Have Missed: Drones, Blowback, and Intelligence Briefings

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Rear Adm. Kirby in the Pentagon Briefing Room, U.S. Department of Defense, December 2, 2014. Q: Will the 9,800 remaining troops have a combat role or not? RE…

May 4, 2016

Trade
TPP and its Implications for Global Access to Medicines

Mi Lin is an intern for Global Health Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. On March 9-10 and March 16-17, two sections of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Acce…

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July 21, 2015

China
The Rising Anti-Intellectualism in China: Part II

In my last blog post, I examined the rise of anti-intellectualism in China from a historical perspective. As if to corroborate my argument, last week police in China’s Jiangxi province detained Wang …

Anti-Intellectualism II