Ah, here is a familiar scene. Deserted streets, police barricades, stranded buses… the flotsam and jetsam of some mass upheaval, surely? Nope. It’s just the security precautions for one of President Obama’s trips to see friends in Chicago…
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Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).
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