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The World Next Week Podcast: October 16, 2009

Gideon Rose and Robert McMahon
October 16, 2009
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Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Gideon Rose and CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon preview major world events in the week ahead. 

In this week's podcast: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates meets his counterpart in Japan; fears grow of a new Swine flu pandemic; and Pakistan's former president, General Pervez Musharraf, speaks in New York.

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