Posts Tagged ‘middle-east’
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The Decline and Fall of the Nation State
Posted on February 14, 2011
In the 19th century, empires fell and in their place arose nation states. The last of the empires, the Hapsburgs, Ottomans and the Romanovs, were wiped out in the first...
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Foreign Aid On the Chopping Block
Posted on February 8, 2011
According to a Gallup poll released right before the President’s State of the Union Address, a majority of Americans said they favor cutting U.S. foreign aid, but more than 6...
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The Iraq Elections
Posted on March 8, 2010
It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant. I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in...
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