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April 12, 2012
United States
U.S. Foreign Policy and Inflated Threats
On February 15, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee: “I can’t impress upon you that in my personal military judgment, formed over th…
September 17, 2015
Vatican City
The Pope’s Soft-Power Push
Pope Francis will use his upcoming high-level visits to the U.S. and UN to press the concerns of the poor and marginalized, says expert Kenneth Himes.
March 16, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Nuclear Material, Poverty Decline, and George Washington
Government Accountability Office, Further Actions Needed by U.S. Agencies to Secure Vulnerable Nuclear and Radiological Materials, March 14, 2012. Despite individual agency efforts to implement…
December 5, 2013
Development
Emerging Voices: The Broken Promises of the Paris Declaration
Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is by Paul Callan, Andria Thomas, Se…
August 20, 2007
Financial Markets
Reverse engineering financial engineering
The process that turned subprime mortgages into triple AAA rated securities is, by now, pretty well known. Rich Bookstaber (his blog is here) describes the process nicely.Here's the recipe for a CD…