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What Ails the Rest

Essay

Developing Symptoms

The main health threat in developing states today is not plagues or parasites but illnesses such as cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases long associated with the rich world.

Snapshot

Healthy Governance

By Devi Sridhar, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Derek Yach

For decades, the WHO has debated whether to address specific diseases or to broadly strengthen healthcare systems. With the increasing threat of noncommunicable diseases, however, the WHO has to double down on the latter.

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Report: Global Public Health

Comprehensive coverage of NCDs, the World Health Organization, and what sickness will look like in the twenty-first century.

Letter From The Struggle to Succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani Paul McGeough As Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani ages, a struggle to succeed him has begun, putting the spiritual leadership of one of the world's foremost faiths in play. But with neighboring Iran moving to install its preferred candidate in the position, the secular political foundations of Iraq's fledgling democracy are at risk.	Response Does CISPA Have Sufficient Safeguards? Mike Rogers; Rebecca MacKinnon Without real-time information sharing, U.S. companies cannot adapt and respond to cyberattackers' constantly changing tactics, argues the chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The problem, counters Rebecca MacKinnon, is the lack of protections of individual liberties.	Video Foreign Affairs Focus On: The Future of the Euro with Martin Feldstein Gideon Rose and Martin Feldstein The editor of Foreign Affairs interviews the author of "The Failure of the Euro."
Snapshot More Military Spies Jennifer Sims Since the Pentagon has an unparalleled global reach and specializes in logistics, and the CIA has deep ties with target countries, it makes sense to gain economies of scale through combined and complementary intelligence operations.	Snapshot Prioritize the Poorest Robert Jenkins and Anthony Lake UNICEF officials explain why development approaches that emphasize equality are also the most cost-effective.	Snapshot The Alliance Gathers Jeanne Shaheen A host of issues confront NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago. Success depends on prioritizing Afghanistan, the Smart Defense Program, and enlargement. Russia can wait.

Books & Reviews

Review Essay

America’s Hidden Government

Desmond King

Suzanne Mettler's The Submerged State shows that executing policy through tax breaks and other indirect measures encourages Americans to think that they do not rely on the government for help, even when they do. The result is a distorted public discourse and an erosion of democratic legitimacy.

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May/June 2012, Volume 3, Number 91

Essay

The Climate Threat We Can Beat

David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, Veerabhadran Ramanathan

For too long, climate diplomacy has focused on carbon dioxide. But at least 40 percent of global warming can be blamed on shorter-lived pollutants, which also cause disease and damage crops in developing states. Reining in pollution would thus accomplish two goals, while finally getting countries such as China and India into the climate-change business.

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The Future of History

Francis Fukuyama

“Liberal democracies need to move beyond simplistic choices, such as that between more and less regulation. The real question is not how much regulation but to what end.”

Submitted by John H. on May 23, 2012 - 4:26am

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