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Like nearly all people interested in development economics, I’m always fascinated by new ideas about why foreign development aid has been, in general, such a miserable…
Two interconnected reasons have caused me to focus particularly on Syria in the past few days.
The first is straightforward enough. I have been finalising a book put together on…
Seen from Tehran, a trip to London looks like a journey to the heart of the Evil Empire. For as much as Europeans tend to regard the United Kingdom as “America’s Poodle”,…
A thinly-traded currency on the horn of Africa has been getting some attention in the past 100 days. The historically-weak Somali shilling has been fluctuating violently against…
Any lingering doubt about the extant relationship between sport, foreign policy and international relations should be removed by news that London Olympics security measures will…
These days in Europe, no one would any longer doubt the truly political nature of the common currency, the Euro. After all, it is an open secret that the Euro’s architects…
A little more than two years ago in this blog, I wrote of a crisis coming to the German government. Looking back, one can indeed say that the government has been in a…
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter’s talk in Parliament in London this week offered useful insights into how the Obama administration and foreign policy analysts around it are…
This week, the Department of Justice formalized its interest in Google from an antitrust perspective. This is a prosecution that, if it moves forward, could have global…
Many of today’s amazing things H.G. Wells imagined years earlier: electrical tools capable of reviving the unconscious, manned space travel to and from the moon, machines…