Guest Post by Jonathan Wallace: Jay-Z: Less Declining Power, More Shrewd Politician

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Jonathan Wallace is Assistant to the President at the New America Foundation. Marc Lynch has a much discussed post over at Foreign Policy that refracts the beef between hip-hop legend Jay-Z and hip-hop artist The Game through the lens of international relations theory.

Guest Post by Caroline Esser: Zelaya, Chavez, and the United States

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Caroline Esser is a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. After reading this Council on Foreign Relations interview with Bernard Gwertzman, it struck me how strange and remarkable Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s simultaneous relationships with both the United States and Venezuela truly were.

Guest Post by Monica Baer: Baby Steps Towards a Nuclear-Free World

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Monica Baer is a research intern with the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program. President Obama is one small step closer to his vision of a nuclear-free world. On July 6, he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty in Moscow.

Guest Post from Jonathan Wallace: Obama in Ghana, in Praise of African Democracy

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Jonathan Wallace is the Assistant to the President at the New America Foundation. After the G-8 meetings in Italy, President Barack Obama will travel to Ghana on his first visit to Africa (discounting his visit to Egypt).

Guest Post by Jonathan Guyer: Shipwrecked, Before Reaching Gaza

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Jonathan Guyer is a Program Associate for the New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force. Last week, the mainstream media only touched on the attempt by the Free Gaza Movement to reach the occupied territory by boat. Israel Defense Forces boarded their vessel, The Spirit of Humanity, which was carrying humanitarian aid.

Obama is No FDR (yet) and Needs to Read up on Hamilton

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Here is a brilliant take by James Pinkerton in a special Politico online forum on the failings of the Obama administration so far when it comes to turning this economy around: Obviously the “stimulus” was a a dud–and the rate that things are going, the next “stimulus,” too, will be a dud.