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June 7, 2013
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Turkey Broils, Egypt Prosecutes, and Syria Deteriorates
Significant Developments Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was welcomed home today from a four-day trip to Africa by thousands of supporters at the airport— the first major show of suppor…
June 19, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Guest Post: Aid Ironies and Djibouti’s "Invisible Undercitizens"
This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…
March 23, 2018
Russia
Russia’s Poisonous Message to the World
The circumstances surrounding the attack on a former Russian spy in England leave little doubt that Russia was the culprit and cast a lengthening shadow over the global regime to stop chemical weapon…
August 1, 2006
United States
How long can the US retain a comparative advantage as a “storehouse for wealth”
If foreigners investing in the US keep doing so badly? That would be my question for John Makin. I don’t doubt the superior liquidity of US markets. I realize that there are only so…
August 10, 2016
Israel
Foreign Aid for Hamas
I’ve written about a half dozen times in the past about UNRWA, the UN agency that deals with Palestinians: here in 2014 and here in 2015, for example. Simply put, UNRWA has long had employees who wer…