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August 19, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Sanctions on Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad answers journalists after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 9, 2010. (Benoit Tessier/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. President Obama’s call yeste…
April 30, 2007
United States
Dani Rodrik, Steve Waldman, China’s impact on US export prices and the risk of “financial” Dutch disease …
Dani Rodrik didn’t take long to stir up the blogosphere (see Steve Waldman, among others). Rodrik makes an interesting point: Trade doesn’t cut inflation. Sure, it lowers prices for impor…
June 12, 2012
International Organizations
RIP for R2P? Syria and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Intervention
The ratcheting up of violence in Syria, including the massacres of civilians in Houla and Qubair, is placing extraordinary pressure on the Obama administration to match its tough anti-atrocities rhet…
June 10, 2011
International Organizations
The Dragon and the Eagle at the UN: Limits to Cooperation
U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao sit across from one another during a September 2009 meeting at the United Nations (Kevin Lamarque/ Courtesy Reuters). --Beijing, Jun…
August 24, 2011
International Law
Getting Qaddafi to The Hague: The Case for ICC Prosecution
A combination of photos shows Saif al-Islam and his father Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (Reuters Staff/ Courtesy Reuters) With the collapse of Muammar al-Qaddafi’s regime in Libya, attention h…
