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Comment, May/June 2009
Amitai Etzioni

The expansion of the Proliferation Security Initiative to South Korea is a welcome development. The PSI is not only a promising model for combating nuclear proliferation, but also offers a blueprint for future international cooperation.

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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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Letter From,
Michael J. Kavanagh

Rwandan troops have pulled out of eastern Congo. Will peace fill the vacuum they left behind, or is a new front in a long war on the horizon?

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Author Interview,
Andrew Natsios

This week, Andrew Natsios answers questions submitted by readers about what the United States and others can do to bring peace and humanitarian relief to Sudan. 

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Postscript,
Rawi Abdelal and Adam Segal

The international financial crisis has thrown the forward march of globalization into question. If the United States and others can learn from the crisis and control borrowing, then the positive potential of global trade and finance may be restored.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Rachel L. Loeffler

Financial sanctions have become a key tool of U.S. foreign policy. Measures taken against Iran and North Korea make clear that this new financial statecraft can be effective, but true success will require persuading global banks to accept a shared sense of risk.

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2009
Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian

Trade problems are an underlying cause of the financial crisis. To truly revive the world economy, a new trade consensus is necessary.

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Essay, Nov/Dec 2008
Charles A. Kupchan

A league of democracies would not secure cooperation among democracies and would expose the limits of the West's power and legitimacy. The next president should not embrace this misguided idea.

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Essay, Nov/Dec 2008
J. Brian Atwood, M. Peter McPherson, and Andrew Natsios

USAID has become ineffective because it is underfunded, understaffed, and losing influence. The next president should revive it by either making it autonomous or elevating it to a cabinet-level department

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Essay, Sep/Oct 2008
António Guterres

The international community must ensure that people seeking safety are protected; sovereignty is not a shield behind which authoritarian governments may terrorize their own people.

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