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November 21, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to intensify the war effort in Afghanistan, but experts say victory will require a revived regional role and reformed reconstruction moves.
President-elect Barack Obama has signaled he will rethink some current defense spending priorities, though two wars, political pressures, and fears of waning American power could temper such cuts.
“ Minor League, Major Problems:” Charles Kupchan argues that a league of democracies would not secure cooperation among democracies and would expose the limits of the West's power and legitimacy.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman calls CFR expert Brad Setser’s Follow the Money blog “the go-to place for all balance-of-payments-related data analysis.”
Peter Beinart writes in Time that in an Obama era, liberalism could again become America's creed
Financial Crisis (11/21): Benn Steil argues in the Financial Times that “we need a ‘safe-fail’ approach against crises.”
Iraq (11/21): Michael J. Gerson argues that Iraq “is becoming a 'normal' self-governing country, in the midst of a national debate on its security just six years after the end of a vicious tyranny,” in the Washington Post.
American Economy (11/20): Matthew J. Slaughter writes in the Wall Street Journal that “an auto bailout would be terrible for free trade.”
China (11/20): Elizabeth C. Economy writes in Time Out New York that “until China's leaders fix things at home, they can't really tackle the global problems abroad.”
North Korea (11/19): Scott A. Snyder adds “achieving the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” to the Obama administration's foreign policy “to-do list,” in the Asia Foundation’s “In Asia” blog.
Auto Industry (11/19): Michael J. Gerson explains why he thinks General Motors deserves to fail, in the Washington Post.
American Economy (11/19): Amity Shlaes argues why President-elect Obama should not use Keynesian solutions for the struggling economy, in Bloomberg.com.
Guantánamo Bay (11/18): Matthew C. Waxman, in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine, argues that shutting down the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay will be no easy task.
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