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Snapshot,
Roger M. Kubarych

Are the bank bailouts a reward for bad behavior? Maybe. But keeping large financial institutions in business still makes sense.

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Snapshot,
Frank Procida

The debate in Washington about Iran's nuclear program has lost all sense of proportion. A nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat, but largely to the regime in Tehran.

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Snapshot,
Richard Feinberg

After last month's fractious Trinidad Summit, what can the Obama administration do to restore the promise of regional cooperation?

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Essay, May/June 2009
Ian Bremmer

Across the world, the free market is being overtaken by state capitalism, a system in which the state is the leading economic actor. How should the United States respond?

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Response, May/June 2009
Robert Madsen; Richard Katz

Does the current financial crisis resemble Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s? It may be even worse, argues Robert Madsen. Not so, replies Richard Katz.

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Postscript,
I. M. Destler

The Obama administration has promised to revamp the National Security Council, but so far it has not delivered.

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Comment,
Richard N. Cooper

An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on the Great Depression.

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Comment, Mar/Apr 2009
Richard Katz

The financial crisis of 2008 is not a replay of Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s. The current crisis is the result of correctable policy mistakes rather than deep structural flaws in the economy.

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Roger C. Altman

The financial crisis has called into serious question the credibility of western governments and may precipitate an eastward shift of power.

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The United States’ unique ability to capitalize on connectivity will make the twenty-first century an American century.

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