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October 14, 2009

Africa's new financial apartheid, by R. Glenn Hubbard

Yesterday, R. Glenn Hubbard, author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty contributed an op-ed on the Web site for Fortune. In the essay, Hubbard argues that while African nations have opened up to foreign trade and investment,...

September 22, 2009

The business of Africa — Forbes on The Aid Trap

An article to be published in the October 5th issue of Forbes discusses R. Glenn Hubbard (pictured above) and William Duggan’s new book The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty and their proposal for a Marshall Plan for Africa....

September 18, 2009

World Policy reviews Stephen Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Perhaps Barack Obama’s decision to scrap the proposed antiballistic shield in Central and Eastern Europe will improve U.S.-Russian relations but as Stephen F. Cohen has argued, much still needs to be done to prevent another Cold War. In his most...

September 14, 2009

Is post-war Greece a model for today's poorest nations?

In The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, R. Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan argue that a new Marshall Plan is needed for many African nations and other countries mired in poverty. Aid, as it has been doled out...

July 2, 2009

Stephen Cohen on GRITtv with Laura Flanders

With Obama’s scheduled trip to Russia next week, talk has once again turned to the future of U.S.-Russian relations. In his interview with Laura Flanders on GRITtv, Stephen Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the...

June 26, 2009

Human Trafficking Report / Siddharth Kara

Earlier this month, the State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses more than 170 countries on what efforts their governments are taking to stop human trafficking. The release of the report was reported on the Foreign...

June 4, 2009

Stephen Cohen Rethinks Russia

Stephen Cohen, the author of the just-published Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, recently appeared on Dan Rather Reports. Cohen joined two other prominent Russian scholars to discuss the future of U.S.-Russian relations. In...

March 24, 2009

William Milam on the Importance of Economic Assistance for Pakistan

William Milam, former ambassador to Pakistan and author of Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with Failure in South Asia, recently testified about Pakistan before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Milam was joined by Steven Coll, author of Ghost...

March 23, 2009

Ann Florini on Global Governance

Last month Ethics and International Affairs, a publication of The Carnegie Council interviewed Ann Florini, editor of The Right to Know Transparency for an Open World, about issues relating to global governance. The Carnegie Council has now made available video...

February 2, 2009

NGOs in Gaza: Humanitarianism vs. Politics by Hugo Slim

Hugo Slim, author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War, recently published an essay in Open Democracy arguing that the noble urge of aid agencies to support Palestinians is too often compromised by a blind eye to uncomfortable...

January 26, 2009

Siddharth Kara at the Carnegie Council and in the Financial Times

Over the weekend, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, by Siddharth Kara was reviewed in the Financial Times. In the very favorable review, Jonathan Birchall writes: In India, [Kara] argues a bungalow brothel makes an average of $12,926...

January 22, 2009

David Kang Advises Obama on North Korea

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) has published a special roundtable in which members of its editorial board offer their expert insights and recommendations on a wide array of topics and issues, including China, North Korea, Japan, Mongolia, economic...

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