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Will Senate Republicans Produce Another International Disaster?

Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Hilary Clinton, U.S. Senate, Nuclear Weapons, Robert Gates, Start, Nuclear Arms Control, Russia, League of Nations, New Start, Republicans, Jon Kyl, New Start Treaty, Obama, Cold War, World News
Lawrence Wittner

An important explanation for GOP opposition to the New START is that its implementation would be popular and, therefore, redound to Obama's political benefit.

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Alfred Nobel, Al Gore, Willy Brandt, Henry Kissinger, Russnow, Blackberry, Twitter, Iraq, Facebook, Woodrow Wilson, Cnn, Muslim, Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Russnow, Iraq War, Jimmy Carter, Youtube, League of Nations, Afghanistan, Obama Nobel, Barack Obama Nobel, Nobel Laureate, Nobel Prize, World News
Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

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The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Jeffrey Sachs, Business School, Marshall Plan, Bill Easterly, Economics, Economy, Subsaharan Africa, Bretton Woods, Paul Collier, United Nations, League of Nations, Academia, Politics News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

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Diamonds Are Not Forever

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Cape Verde, World War I, Diamonds, South Africa, Hiv, Namibia, Conflict Diamonds, League of Nations, Madagascar, Mauritius, Botswana, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Botswana is an example of how to wisely administer a natural resource endowment.

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We'll Always Have Tara

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Change, Progress, Health Care, Fear, Healthcare System, Civil War, The New Deal, League of Nations, Universal Health Care, Fear-of-Change, Obama Health Care, Status Quo, Politics News
Gerald Sindell

When we finally do achieve health care restructuring, I hope that some of us will take a moment to look at that powerful human preference for the status quo over anything else.

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McCain's "League," and Obama's Debate Dilemma

John Wihbey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Mccain, Obama, Presidential Debates, League, Concert of Nations, League of Nations, Politics News
John Wihbey

Tonight, Obama will have a chance to take a swing at what is McCain's potentially most radical idea: the creation of a "league of democracies" that critics say could effectively subvert the United Nations.

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McCain, Obama on International Diplomacy and Immigration

Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Mccain Immigration Reform, John McCain, Homeland Security, Immigration, Election 2008, Border Fence, Border Security, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Tom Tancredo, Immigration Debate, United Nations Obama, Foreign Affairs Obama, Obama Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, United Nations Mccain, League of Democracies, Security Council Mccain, League of Nations, Bush Unilateralism, UN Human Rights, Obama Diplomacy, Fareed Zakaria Democracies, McCain Diplomacy, Un Secretariat, Zimbabwe Elections, Security Council Obama, Home News
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling

Over the course of this week, OffTheBus will be running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on international diplomacy and immigration.

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Call a League a League

Deborah Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: League of Democracies, League of Nations, McCain League of Nations, United Nations, Russia, John McCain, Washington Post, China, Politics News
Deborah Derrick

Excluding the Russians, the Chinese, and others from international institutions does not change the fact that we need a global consensus; it just makes it harder to obtain.

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