This is a guest post by a colleague and TWN regular Richard Vague Handling the Economic Crisis – A Report Card If we really want to have enduring, muscular economic growth, then where’s the enhanced support for the truly cutting edge things that will make that happen? Repatriating telemarketing jobs from the Philippines and textile…
Caroline Esser is a research intern at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. Although the G8 summit in Italy resulted in little progress toward establishing greenhouse gas emissions targets, the leaders of the G-8 countries are claiming a small success in the realm of food security.
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.
Katherine Tiedemann is a policy analyst at the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program. The everyday lives of Afghanistan’s some 16 million women are often forgotten or overlooked in the morass that is US involvement in Afghanistan.
In the aftermath of last week’s G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, there is a debate emerging over whether to expand the group. The most popular proposal would include Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa in a G-14.
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.
Jon Weinberg is a research intern with the New America Foundation’s Middle East Task Force. Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the 1999 student protests in Iran.
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.
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).
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.
