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Obama's Agenda: 10 Challenges for the New President

Brookings Institution | November 2008
Great challenges await the 44th US president, especially economic ones. The Brookings Institution lists the ten most important: Restoring Financial Stability: Strengthening the global financial system is a priority alongside the task of ...More

Saving Afghanistan Means Even Talking to Enemies

Barnett R. Rubin & Ahmed Rashid | Foreign Affairs | November 2008
Seven years after the advent of Operation Enduring Freedom, the Taliban, al- Qaeda and various insurgents have regained strength particularly on Afghan and Pakistani soil. The fight for security in the Middle East has spiralled downward as the Taliban ...More

Only Less Consumption Can Stop the Crash

Tim Jackson | New Scientist | November 2008
The disastrous effects of unfettered consumption have been known and understood for 40 years already. Back then, American environmental researchers Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren created the "Ehrlich equation," a tool that can also be applied to current ...More

After Georgia: Russia's Anxious Neighbors

Alexander Nicoll & Sarah Johnstone | IISS | October 2008
The Georgia conflict is forcing Russia's neighbors to rethink their relationships with Russia as well as with the West. Through military action, Russia has demonstrated how far it is willing to go to protect its national interests. Western rhetorical ...More

Europe's "New Corporations"

Dalia Marin | Bruegel | October 2008
Global commerce has dramatically changed in the last fifteen years. The opening of new markets, growing competition, and the struggle for attracting the world's brightest minds are all responsible for such a change. On the basis of substantial evidence from Germany ...More

China's Financial Policies Harm Domestic Growth

Nicholas R. Lardy | Peterson Institute | October 2008
To date China can, through financial repression - state regulation, which undermines market mechanisms in the financial system - sustain the costs of an undervalued currency. However, by adhering to these financial policies, China's economy may soon ...More

What Hinders Economic Growth in the Middle East?

Juliane Brach | German Institute of Global and Area Studies | Sept. 2008
Economically speaking, Arab states have developed at a strikingly slower pace in the last 20 years than most other regions in the world. This is particularly true for the Arab Mediterranean, including Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, ...More

Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan Harness Natural Resources

Johannes F. Linn | The Brookings Institution | August 2008
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan lead the region as two countries that have successfully harnessed their natural resources allowing them to grow their economies and avoid the apparent "natural resource curse" that plagues many developing nations. ...More

Pakistan's Future Depends on India, China and the US

Stephen P. Cohen | Asian Journal of Public Affairs | Summer 2008
While Pakistan is often called a failed state it is more accurately labeled as a flailing state. The PPP-PML coalition cannot solve every problem alone but needs help from India, China and the US. These nations, which had once contributed to ...More

Europe Needs a Unified Immigration Policy

Jakob von Weizsäcker | Bruegel Policy Brief | July 2008
The challenges of immigration and integration in the EU need to be addressed with urgency. Jakob von Weizsäcker suggests that high-skilled and unregulated migration as well as asylum applicants should be priorities for the entire EU, while immigrant ...More