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Kenya's Presidential Election, 2013: Looking Back to Move Forward

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney: These Authors Have Drafted Policies That Help the Budget and Provide Economic Benefits

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Adam Looney: These authors have drafted policies that help the budget and provide economic benefits; they provide a menu of options that policymakers can choose from to help address the 1.5 trillion dollar hole that we dug.

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Michael Greenstone

Adam Looney

Fiona Hill: Putin’s History in KGB Leads to “Case Officer” Personality

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Fiona Hill: Putin was brought in to keep tabs on information, a portfolio of skills he built with the KGB. Putin’s manipulation of information moved from the Kremlin to Russia’s businessmen.

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Clifford G. Gaddy

Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill: Putin’s Personalities Leveraged to Boost Russia

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Fiona Hill: The book culminates how all of Putin’s personalities play out in the current Russian system. Putin uses information to encourage people to doing certain things for goals he laid out to restore the state of Russia.

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Clifford G. Gaddy

Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill and Cliff Gaddy: The Outsider Influenced Putin’s “Free Market” Personality

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Fiona Hill and Cliff Gaddy: As an outsider, Putin does not have a vested interest in the way things are operated, and that is key to understanding Putin’s “advocate of the free market” personality.

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Clifford G. Gaddy

Fiona Hill

Clifford Gaddy: Putin the History Man and Survivalist

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Clifford Gaddy: Putin is a student and man of Russian history. Ultimately, ensuring survival of the Russian state has made Putin a survivalist on behalf of his state.

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Clifford G. Gaddy

Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill: Putin’s Statist Personality: Restoring the Greatness of Russia

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Fiona Hill: Putin, as a Statist, is someone who is appointed to serve the state, and that’s all that they do. It’s not about individualism. Putin sees his mission as restoring the greatness of the Russian state.

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Clifford G. Gaddy

Fiona Hill

Elizabeth Ferris: Syria’s Escalating Humanitarian Crisis

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Elizabeth Ferris: More than 600,000 Syrians have fled the country since war broke out in 2011, but the number of displaced persons in Syria is far greater than that. These are people who need basic services and who are enduring unimaginable strife.

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Elizabeth Ferris

Vanda Felbab-Brown: The Choices the U.S. Makes Will Largely Determine Afghanistan's Future

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Vanda Felbab-Brown: The choices the U.S. makes as we approach and engage in the 2014 military draw-down will largely determine Afghanistan’s future.

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Vanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown: Pakistan Plays a Significant Role in Afghanistan's Future

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Vanda Felbab-Brown: Pakistan plays a significant role in Afghanistan’s future and is the primary reason why the Afghan people are facing such a challenging future.

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Vanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown: The Afghan People Simply Want to Live and Thrive

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Vanda Felbab-Brown: I don’t believe the Afghan people hate government. I met many young people in my travels who, like their parents and grandparents, are unhappy with corruption and crime…they simply want to live and thrive.

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Vanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown: Counterinsurgency and State-Building in Afghanistan after 2014

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Vanda Felbab-Brown: The future of Afghanistan is precarious, but not hopeless.

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Vanda Felbab-Brown

@ Brookings Podcast: Remaking Federalism and Renewing the Economy

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: Remaking Federalism and Renewing the Economy

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Bruce Katz: The U.S. is a federalist republic; if we want a functioning economy, then our system needs to work together like the federation of states, regions and metros that we are.

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Bruce Katz

Mark Muro

@ Brookings Podcast: What Americans Think about the Middle East

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Shibley Telhami: What Americans Think about the Middle East

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Shibley Telhami: Perhaps never more than now, Americans are deeply concerned about what happens in the Middle East and how they impact us here at home.

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Shibley Telhami

Barry Sussman: Stories from Watergate

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

The Washington Post’s Barry Sussman looks back on the phone call that connected a Watergate break-in to the Nixon White House.

William Gale: Combine Going Over the Fiscal Cliff with a Stimulus

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

William Gale: If the Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic sequestrations of the “fiscal cliff” kick in, the economy will be set on a better overall path – and the specific cuts could be so unpopular that Congress might move quickl

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William G. Gale

Stephen Hess: The Changing Balance of Power in Presidential Campaign Reporting

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Stephen Hess: Our very good, well-trained reporters are “almost dangerous” to presidential candidates who are trying to stay on message. Thus, says Hess, the way the press covers campaigns has changed as well, and not for the better.

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Stephen Hess

Nathan Hultman: Global Progress in Sustainable Development

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Nathan Hultman: While the recent Rio +20 conference failed to produce a transformational vision, emerging economies are nevertheless finding ways to achieve their own plans or form regional agreements to achieve sustainable goals to reduce poverty an