Kyrgyzstan And The Great Powers

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(Photo Credit: Department of Defense Photostream) A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post on Kyrgyzstan. Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Richard Weitz has a piece in The Diplomat about the ongoing competition among China, Russia, and the United States in that country.

Obama’s Excellent Nuclear Summitry

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Here are some thoughts that I shared with Keith Olbermann on President Obama’s significant Nuclear Security Summit. More tomorrow.

Another Hidden Cost Of the War In Afghanistan

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(Photo Credit: DVIDSHUB’s Photostream) Balancing the short-term expediency of working with strategically important states with the ethical issues and long-term costs of supporting repressive regimes is a complicated task that defies simple solutions.

Soros as Intellectual Protagonist

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The evening before last, George Soros offered some remarks at the launch conference of the Institute for New Economic Thinking taking place in the Cambridge University Kings College environs where John Maynard Keynes imagined and drafted an entirely new economic system for that time in global history.

IMF Protesters Try to Disrupt Cambridge University Address by Strauss-Kahn

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(photo credit: Steve Clemons, The Washington Note) IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is “cool under fire”, as Central European University President John Shattuck said when introducing him, and didn’t break his stride during his interesting presentation to a group convened by the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Kings College, University of Cambridge.

Tragedy Memorializing Tragedy: Another Sad Day in the Poland-Russia Narrative

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This morning at a conference in Cambridge, England titled “The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics” sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, alerts on the blackberries and iPhones of the various governmental and journalistic representatives here started beeping and vibrating with news that the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria…