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Fiddling while the euro burns - Foreign Policy (blog)

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If you're confused about where Europe is headed, join the club. Last week at a seminar a colleague with considerable knowledge of European affairs confidently told me "Don't sell your euros ... the Germans will eventually step in and rescue the whole ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Fiddling while the euro burns - Foreign Policy (blog)

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If you're confused about where Europe is headed, join the club. Last week seminar a colleague with considerable knowledge of European affairs confidently told me "Don't sell your euros ... the Germans will eventually step in and rescue the whole thing. ...

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What Do Paterno, Berlusconi, Qaddafi and Murdoch Have in Common? | Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy (blog)

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That's funny; who knew that Professor Walt considered Qaddafi to be such a bad guy? Now he tells us that, "at the extreme end, a megalomaniac like Qaddafi was willing to kill his own people to sustain his own kleptocracy, while somehow believing to the ...

Stephen M. Walt: Men behaving badly - Foreign Policy (blog)

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What do Joe Paterno, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Silvio Berlusconi, and Rupert Murdoch have in common? The obvious answer, of course, is that 2011 turned out to be a very bad year for each of them. There were clearly important differences between them ...

Vote for me! (if you want to) - Foreign Policy (blog)

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I learned yesterday that my article "The End of the American Era" (in the current issue of The National Interest) was selected as one "ten favorite articles" for October by The Browser, a terrific online compilation service/magazine produced in Britain ...

Stephen M. Walt: Vote for me! (if you want to) - Foreign Policy (blog)

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I learned yesterday that my article "The End of the American Era" (in the current issue of The National Interest) was selected as one "ten favorite articles" for October by The Browser, a terrific online compilation service/magazine produced in Britain ...

Stephen M. Walt: The not-so-best or brightest - Foreign Policy (blog)

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According to the Census Bureau, about 53 percent of Americans are over the age of 35 and thus eligible to be President. Taking into account the roughly 11.3 million naturalized citizens (who are barred from the presidency by the Constitution) that's ...

The Syrian tragedy - Foreign Policy

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I'm inclined to cut them some slack here, because it would have been far better had the United States, Turkey, and a few others been able to convince Assad to begin a genuine process of dialogue, compromise, and liberalization. ...

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Stephen M. Walt: The Syrian tragedy - Foreign Policy

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I'm inclined to cut them some slack here, because it would have been far better had the United States, Turkey, and a few others been able to convince Assad to begin a genuine process of dialogue, compromise, and liberalization. ...

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News flash: WINEP defends the 'special relationship' - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] News flash: WINEP defends the 'special relationship'
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Last week the Washington Institute of Near East Policy released a brief report entitled "Israel: A Strategic Asset for the United States." Such an event is not exactly headline news, insofar as the report is precisely the sort of analysis that you'd ...

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