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January 24, 2003

United States
Former Senior National Security Council Aide Eric Schwartz Joins the Council to Lead a Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq

January 23, 2003 - Former NSC staffer Eric Schwartz has joined the Council to direct a new Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Iraq. The Task Force will addres…

April 12, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: College May Not be Everyone’s Best Investment

The rising rate of college attendance is often touted as a great success story, but the 40 percent college dropout rate may support the argument that college is not for everyone (BusinessWeek). The a…

Graduating student Abel Charrow advertises to potential employers at the University of Southern California’s May 2007 commencement. (Mario Anzuoni/Courtesy Reuters)

April 10, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: VC Fundraising Cools in Q1, but IPOs are Hot

Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association announced that first quarter venture capital fundraising fell by 35 percent in 2012. This decline may mark the end of a rebound that appea…

Traders gather on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for Demandware’s IPO on March 15, 2012.  (Brendan McDermid/Courtesy Reuters)

October 21, 2013

Japan
Rob Sheldon: Advancing U.S.-Japan Collective Cyber Capabilities (Part I: Context)

Rob Sheldon is a 2013-2014 Mansfield Fellow based in Tokyo. Follow him at @shorttelegrams. Also see Part II and Part III of this series. After several years of incremental improvements, Washington a…

Participants from government ministries and agencies take part in the Cyber Defense Exercise with Recurrence (CYDER) in Tokyo on September 25, 2013. (Toru Hanai/Courtesy Reuters)

January 25, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Washington Responsible for U.S. Worker Competitiveness

Former Clinton Administration official and public policy expert Robert Reich contends that government, as protector of the public good (CSM), has a responsibility to help the American worker compete …