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Reinfeldt announces summit (Nov 19) to nominate candidates for key EU jobs
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQMiW4dTgjI[/youtube]
Defence Secretary Gates on Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4A4wg_a38[/youtube]
On the web: grumbling about world politics, Europe, the US economy, and Palin’s speeches…
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On the web: 1989 anniversary, climate predictions, and India’s relations…
- With the upcoming anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Timothy Garton Ash surveys the current debate about the causes behind those dramatic events...
On the web: the EU’s global influence, Obama’s leadership, and inside the financial crisis…
- With Czech ratification of the Lisbon Treaty now looking increasingly likely, attention shifts to the implications for the EU's global influence. Benita...
Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom: “Beyond the tragedy of the commons”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByXM47Ri1Kc[/youtube]
On the web: Afghan anniversary, modern terrorism, and the Nobel race…
- With the eighth anniversary of war in Afghanistan, debate about the strategic direction of the conflict continues apace. Foreign Policy has an extract from...
NSC Advisor on Afghanistan: “The president should be presented with options, not just one fait accompli”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDtjtYMCLKM[/youtube]
On the web: Merkel’s re-election, Japan’s foreign policy, inefficient markets, and what not to say at the UN…
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President Obama’s statement on Iran at Pittsburgh G20
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcW6o9BdSNY[/youtube]
On the web: a Pittsburgh G20 special
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On the web: Lehman’s legacy, the Irish referendum on Lisbon, transatlantic trends and more…
- With the anniversary of Lehman Brother’s demise, the FT recalls the events of that fateful weekend last September. The NYT has reflections of three former...
On the web: Bernanke’s reappointment, al-Megrahi’s release, foreign policy realism, the “perfect storm”, and more…
- With the news that President Obama has nominated Ben Bernanke for a second term, over at the New Republic Noam Scheiber assesses the merits of continuity at...
On the web: Libyan relations, FEMA’s new head, the power of communication, and Afghanistan past and present…
- With the fortieth anniversary of Muammar Qaddafi’s rule fast approaching, Chatham House’s Molly Tarhuni takes a look (pdf) at Libya’s gradual reemergence...
Secretary Clinton, I presume?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgF_PZg3EwY[/youtube]
“The new look of Pyongyang”: beer commercial North Korean style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67BYwNHU440[/youtube]
On the web: rumbles in the Caucasus, the QDR, land grabbing, Sarko on climate change and British declinism…
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On the web: overconfident bankers, China on the high seas, the Iraq War Inquiry and the Geneva Conventions…
- Writing in the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell explains how “the roots of Wall Street’s crisis were not structural or cognitive so much as they were...
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