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January 7, 2013

United States
John Brennan as CIA Director: What It Means

Several news agencies are reporting that John Brennan, White House homeland security advisor and deputy national security advisor for counterterrorism, will be nominated to be the director of the Cen…

Brennan nomination

January 25, 2013

United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Cyber, and Mythologies of Intervention

Jill Lepore, “How Much Military is Enough?” New Yorker, January 28, 2013. Veit Medick, “Germany Plans to Deploy Armed Drones,” Spiegel Online International, January 25, 2013. Bowing to pressure f…

Drone takeoff

September 16, 2015

Ten Whats With...Elmira Bayrasli

Elmira Bayrasli is co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and author of the new book, From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places (Public Affairs, 2015) 1. What …

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November 8, 2012

Congresses and Parliaments
The World Next Week: Congress Goes Lame Duck, Greece’s Parliament Votes on a Budget, and California Auctions Carbon Pollution Allowances

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed what the lame duck Congress will do now that President Barack Obama has won a second term; Greece’s vote on a yet another austerity pack…

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd of supporters in Chicago after winning the 2012 U.S. presidential election (Jim Bourg/Courtesy Reuters).

April 22, 2016

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Trump to Give a Major Foreign Policy Address

Foreign policy didn’t make much news on the campaign trail this week. That’s about to change. Next Wednesday, Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his first foreign policy address. The setting is a l…

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