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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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November 3, 2020
Elections and Voting
Musings on Elections in Africa on America's Election Day
Americans assume that free, fair, and credible elections are essential to democracy. Elsewhere, however, elections are rigged and serve mainly to consolidate the position of a "big man" and his cronies or to legitimate self-perpetuating elites.
January 30, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Musings About Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Maiduguri
Maiduguri is the capital of Borno state and is the metropole of northeastern Nigeria. It has a federal university and an international airport, co-located with a Nigerian air force base. On the edge …
February 17, 2012
United States
Weekend Reading: Syria’s Seas, Treaty Troubles?, and Musings on the Maghreb
Soner Cagaptay reflects on what it might take to get Russia to back the Syrian opposition. Zvika Krieger writes on The Atlantic about the debate on cutting U.S. aid to Egypt and what that might mean…
October 2, 2005
Europe
Germany 1, France 0? Plus some musings about the politics of globalization
I agreed with a lot of what Fareed Zakaria wrote about Germany - certainly I would agree that Germany has done a lot more reform than France over the past few years.Compare Germany with France. In Ge…
October 16, 2005
China
Is Tim Adams a closet Democrat? And some other musings on Snow’s trip to China
Clearly not, given his role in the Bush/ Cheney 2004 campaign. But he also seems to think China should develop a social insurance system to help spur domestic consumption. Read Friday's Wall Street…