Charisma We Can Believe In
A leadership transition is scheduled in two major autocracies in 2012. Neither is likely to be a surprise.
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Foreign Policy Credentials of the Republican Presidential Candidates
While the economy will be the central issue of the presidential campaign, foreign policy and national security should be a close second.
Build the Stomach for the Journey
Mastering Public Health will enable you to improve your performance and productivity within your organization and with the people and the communities you serve.
Iraq War Damaged US Credibility
The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam.
Federalist Nos. 67-77: How Would Publius Envision the Civil Service Today?
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Recognized
Looking out the airplane window at a white winter landscape in Oslo yesterday, I thought back to another flight. Several years ago, a U.N. helicopter took me “up country” to the Liberian bush.
Our Best Foreign Policy President
The true victors of the Cold War were visionaries like Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and Yeltsin as well as the peoples of Eastern Europe. But, a large share of the credit is also due to George H.W.
Papandreou’s Fall
For two years, Europe’s political, business, and press elites have produced disastrous diagnoses and even more disastrous prescriptions for Greece’s ills. No convincing cure seemed in sight until Oct
The Myth of American Exceptionalism
Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill," the "last best hope of Earth," the "leader of the free world,"
U.S. Crisis Gratuitously Self-Inflicted
In both Europe and the United States, the current public debt woes are attributable to mistakes made by political leaders going back more than a decade.
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