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What about austerity?
by Domínguez, Jorge I.; Enriquez, Juan
Publisher: The Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
Within the billions of sentences about the financial bailout there is one word notably absent, austerity. All talk is of payments, supports, subsidies, incurring more debt, stimulus packages. The...
Published Date: October 2008 More
Bush's doomed Mideast peace efforts
by Sheehan, Edward R. F.
Publisher: The Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
President Bush does not seem to know it yet, but his peace plan for the Middle East is moribund. That is my chief impression from a recent three-month journey through the troubled region. A viable...
Published Date: August 2008 More
Russia can play a vital role in the west’s security
by Massari, Maurizio
Publisher: Financial Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
The enlargement of NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine could become the most dangerous spoiler in relations between Russia and the west next year. It would also set the new US president off to a bad...
Published Date: August 2008 More
India's Global Ambition and the Nuclear Deal
by Miller, Manjari
Publisher: The Christian Science Monitor
Publication Type: Op-ed
Unlike China, India doesn't have a clear vision for its role in the world. For three decades, India has craved a nuclear energy deal that would bring prestige and advanced technology. Yet when the...
Published Date: July 2008 More
Sitting Down at the Nuclear Table with Iran
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: The Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
IN A SPEECH this week, Iran's supreme leader found himself in rare agreement with President Bush. Echoing Bush's judgment that nuclear terrorism is "the single most serious threat to American...
Published Date: June 2008 More
Why Islam Lies at the Heart of Iraq's Civil War
by Toft, Monica Duffy
Publisher: Christian Science Monitor
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
It matters what we call things. It took too long for the Bush administration to admit that its intended liberation of Iraq had become an occupation, that US forces faced a home-grown insurgency...
Published Date: June 2008 More
The Rich Get Hungrier
by Sen, Amartya
Publisher: The New York Times
Publication Type: Op-ed
Will the food crisis that is menacing the lives of millions ease up—or grow worse over time? The answer may be both. The recent rise in food prices has largely been caused by temporary problems...
Published Date: May 2008 More
Rothschild explores economics’ human side
by Lavoie, Amy
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Blackmail and attempted murder are not typically studied as part of economic history. However, a credit crisis among 18th century French silk and brandy merchants led to just such dramatic...
Published Date: May 2008 More
It's not the price that causes hunger
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Publication Type: Op-ed
International prices of rice, wheat and corn have risen sharply, setting off violent urban protests in roughly a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But is this a "world food...
Published Date: April 2008 More
Turkey's Constitutional Crisis—From Lose-Lose to Win-Win
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: Middle East Progress
Publication Type: Op-ed
The March 31, 2008 decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to hear a case that could bring down the governing Justice and Development Party (also known in Turkey as AKP) has provoked a...
Published Date: April 2008 More