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A new global order: Bretton Woods II...and San Francisco II, Simon Maxwell Dirk Messner
Global leaders are preparing to meet in Washington on 15 November 2008 for a summit of the G20 group of states and representatives of leading international financial institutions. The gathering is being ambitiously named "Bretton Woods II" - echoing the conference on 1-22 July 1944 which established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). With George W Bush presiding, and Barak Obama waiting in the wings, the... more »
Dear President: memos to Obama , John C. Hulsman
To: The President of the United States
From: John C Hulsman
Re: The Middle East Peace Process
Mr President,
I can only imagine how many long-winded memos you will have to wade through between election night and your inauguration. They will all have basically the same message: You must do what they say, and quickly, to save the republic from further disaster. It reminds me of the comments of Georges Clemenceau, the premier of France, regarding the "fourteen... more »
Memo to Obama: a Europe policy 3.0, A Wess Mitchell
To: The President of the United States
From: A Wess Mitchell
Subject: America's Europe Policy, Version 3.0
Mr President,
You will inherit a policy agenda for Europe that was conceived twenty years ago for a world that no longer exists. That agenda was built on three bedrock assumptions, all of which were then refreshingly new:
A Wess Mitchell is co-founder and director of research at the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington,DC-based... more »
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