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TIME Europe July 13, 2009 Bobby Ghosh |
U.S. and Russia: The Talk Starts Here When Barack Obama visits Moscow on July 6, it will be something of a rarity for the U.S. President: a rather dull trip. Obama will encounter no cheering crowds or overly excited local media.  |
TIME Europe July 13, 2009 Katinka Barysch |
Europe and Russia's Continental Rift Some hope that the recession might just make the Russian leadership a little more humble or at least trigger reforms that would make it easier for the E.U. to strengthen trade and investment links.  |
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Roquefort Revolution Trade policy folly. Right before he left the White House, George W. Bush dealt a harsh blow to lovers of Roquefort, the finest of the stinky French blue cheeses.  |
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A Missile Strike On Hawaii? North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.  |
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What To Do About Iran? President Barack Obama is in a box over Iran, caught between affinity for emboldened reformists and caution about further alienating a hard-line Islamic regime he wants to dissuade from seeking nuclear weapons.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Kose et al. |
Out of the Ballpark By any measure, the ongoing global recession is the deepest and the most synchronized of the postwar period  |
Finance & Development June 2009 John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture  |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Barry Eichengreen |
Viewpoint: Stress Test for the Euro Countries tempted to abandon the European currency face formidable barriers.  |
Finance & Development June 2009 Charles Wyplosz |
Viewpoint: The Euro's Finest Hour? The euro has proved a safe haven for countries lucky enough to have made it into this exclusive club in time.  |
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
The Truck Stops Here The NAFTA superhighway feared by conspiracy theorists has yet to materialize, but nativists can take comfort in one fact: If the superhighway does come, there won't be any Mexicans driving on it.  |
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Trust Fund A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research tries to answer a seemingly intractable question: Why do people in countries with especially corrupt governments consistently demand more government intervention, not less?  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet |
Q&A With Jeremy Curtis UK space expert talks about cooperative, international efforts to explore space  |
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