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July 6, 2011

Nigeria
Technology, Social Media, and Nigeria’s Elections

An official of MTN, a mobile telecommunications company, registers a SIM card as he attends to customers at a makeshift SIM card registration centre in Nigeria's capital Abuja August 3, 2010. (Afolab…

Technology, Social Media, and Nigeria’s Elections

October 16, 2007

Libya
How Libya Got Off the List

Libya, for years a thorn in the side of U.S. policymakers, has boosted its profile in recent years, renouncing terrorism and abandoning its WMD. In response, the U.S. State Department has removed Lib…

June 21, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Strengthening U.S. Engagement with the World: A Review of U.S. Public Diplomacy

MODERATOR: Good morning. If I could get your attention, please, and welcome to our discussion today. We're very lucky to have with us Judith McHale, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy …

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July 2, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Delaware, the Onshore Tax Haven

Delaware is the legal home of nearly half of all U.S. public corporations, though that home is often a simple dropbox (NYT). In 2011, corporations paid roughly $860 million in taxes and fees to the s…

1209 N. Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware, is the legal address of over 285,000 separate businesses (Wikimedia Commons).

March 9, 2022

Economic Crises
Russia’s Economy in Freefall

Panelists discuss the breadth and depth of sanctions and divestment, the current state of the Russian economy, and whether any of these mechanisms will affect Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calcu…

Play An employee counts Russian ruble banknotes at a private company's office in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, December 17, 2014.