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Foreign Policy Blogs
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Asia - Paper Wars
It’s all-out war, and yes, South Indians plan to relish every minute of it. After all, it is rather gratifying to see the dignified Hindu getting down and dirty with the more boisterous Times. In a recent series of much-discussed ads, The Hindu wittily ...
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Humanitarian Affairs - Unsafe Abortions on the Rise
The right to life is unquestionably one of the biggest human rights debates in the United States. Some argue there is never an acceptable reason for the termination of a pregnancy, others will allow it in the case of a medical emergency or to save the life of the mother, ...
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Europe - Toy Story: Revolt of the Little Guys
“Political opposition forces are using new technologies to carry out public events” lamented an exasperated Russian police chief yesterday. What are these insidious technologies? Twitter? Talking spy rocks (wait, those are British!)? Putin’s beloved nano-particles? Wait, he was getting to that. The protesters are “using toys ...
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Modern Challenges - Know Your Religion
A year ago I stumbled upon an interesting website. After relating a short story, it asked the reader to guess the religious context in which the tale was set. The questions varied from the way women dressed (burqa-esque, fully clad) to the practice of allowing men multiple wives. When I ...
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The Environment - With New Fiber Optics Cables, Competition Moves to Seafloor
First it was server cooling rooms. Now, new, trans-Arctic telecommunications cables might be the next big thing up north. At this year’s Pacific Telecommunications Council conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, there was much talk about a potential subsea optical transmission cable that could be laid under the Arctic Ocean thanks ...
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Foreign Policy - Obama: America Is Back
President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address to Congress last night before facing the voters in November. Although the speech was primarily concerned with economic matters and his efforts to build an “economy built to last,” it also contained several references ...
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The Environment - Increasing Food Security by Reducing Food Waste
In Berlin, farm ministers and policy makers criticized the food waste of developed countries and emphasized the importance of nutrition education programs. Every year, consumers in developed countries waste 220 million metric tons of food, while almost one billion people go hungry. These practices not only hurt ...
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The Americas - Brazil’s Women Leaders on Top of the World
The way to become a top CEO in Europe or the US has often come from societies that promoted the top achievers in schools and universities into positions of great influence and great wealth. With hard work and luck a person of normal means could often get into high positions, ...
Ivory Tower survey polls IR scholars on the top foreign policy problems facing the U.S.
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