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New on the HIR
Gangs in the Caribbean
by Bilyana Tsvetkova
"June, 2009
In the last decade, some Caribbean countries have experienced an alarmingly high growth in crime rates that has cast a gloomy shadow on the typically idyllic image of the islands. In th..."
Averting a Post-Orange Disaster
by Dr. Andreas Umland
"June, 2009
After several years of impressive economic growth and encouraging political change, Ukraine has recently entered troubled waters. The democracies west of Ukraine are institutionally cons..."
Bleeding for Humanity
by Stephen Wertheim
"June 2009
Humanitarian interventionists have blood on their hands. Their impulse to “free a nation from the tyrant’s grip,” to pick professor-cum-politician Michael Ignatieff’s formulation, helped ..."
Megacities Attract
by Olli Varis
"Twenty years ago, the world’s megacities, defined by the United Nations as urban agglomerations with over 5 million inhabitants, housed 308 million people—6 percent of the world’s population at that t..."
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The Decadence of the Elite.
Just as the swine flu episode has begun to wind down, Mexican elites have been seized by another contagion: bloodying...
Rethinking David and Goliath.
The news media failed to accurately and objectively evaluate the conflict between Russia and Georgia this past summer...
Fifteen Years After The Zapatistas.
Last Friday, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard sponsored a conference to reflect on...
Mr. Obama’s Pitch to NATO.
By Guest Authors Michael Barton and Gabriel C. Lajeunesse
General David Petraeus testified last week that militant...
Moscow Mogadishu.
Paul Klebnikov was the American-born editor of the Russian edition of Forbes Magazine. Klebnikov made his...
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Obstacles in International Justice
How did the precedents set by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) change the concept of accountability systems in conflict situations?
The establishment of the ICTY and later the ICTR was the birth of interna...
by Richard J. Goldstone
Path to Recovery
In your statements, you have advocated tax cuts over government spending as a policy instrument for economic stimulus. Could you explain why tax cuts would be more efficient?
I would not use the words “more efficient,” but I will come back to that. My view is that spending increases woul...
by Jeffrey Miron
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Gangs in the Caribbean
A Problem with International Consequences
by Bilyana Tsvetkova
Bleeding for Humanity
Humanitarian Intervention is Politics: A New Doctrine
by Stephen Wertheim
The Kurdish Nationalist Dream, Deferred?
by Commander Norman "Rick" Denny, USN-Retired
The Reawakening of Reconstruction
by Amitai Etzioni
The Global Recession and African Migration
A Pending Crisis
by Arno Tanner
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