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March 6, 2012

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Paul C. Warnke Lecture on International Security: Defense Strategy and Budget Priorities for the 21st Century

Related readings: A Leaner and Meaner Defense by Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman Pentagon Fires at Budget Target that Can't be Hit by Peter R. Orszag A Defense Budget at the Crossroads By Jona…

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January 24, 2018

Nigeria
Former President Obasanjo Excoriates Nigeria's Politics, Proposes New Path

Obasanjo’s statement is significant for its apparently clear-eyed assessment of the current state of Nigerian governance, as well as its harsh criticism of his successors, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. It is also indicative of the widespread reassessment of Nigeria’s political institutions now underway across the country.

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January 17, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor to Stay

According to the Nigerian media on January 9, an angry President Goodluck Jonathan asked the governor of the Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, to resign immediately. Sanusi’s term is up in June, and he ha…

Nigeria's central bank governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi attends an interview with Reuters at the World Islamic Economic Forum in London October 30, 2013.

May 6, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
It Is Time for President Obama to Visit Nigeria

Up to now, President Barack Obama has never visited Nigeria. That has been appropriate given the country’s history of rigged elections and the government’s refusal to investigate credible reports of …

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