Jolyon Howorth

With ratification of the EU constitution in doubt, Jolyon Howorth analyzes the trends that will define European security and the EU's relationship with the United States in the years ahead. 
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Russia experts reflect on the country's relations with the West and the politically turbulent states on its western border.
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Achilles Skordas urges a more flexible line in EU dealings with the independence-minded Moldovian enclave of Transnistria and, ultimately, Moldova's integration into the EU.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses how reporting shapes his view of the world and how the Bush administration's view of the world shapes U.S. foreign policy.
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Paul Bracken argues that big business in China, India, Brazil, and other emerging markets in outcompeting foreign multinationals and displacing NGOs, labor, and government as a source of power and influence.
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Deborah Brautigam explains how Mauritius shaped the sugar market, tapped cultural networks and contacts, and relied on a tradition of pluralism to export its way to the ranks of upper-middle countries.
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The tsunamis that leveled so many Southeast Asian communities in December 2004 provide a critical but often overlooked opportunity to establish formal property rights throughout the region.  Kevin J. Fandl lays the groundwork for proper land titling systems.
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USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios finds reasons for cautious optimism over the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and its ability to usher in sustainable peace and power sharing in the Sudan. 
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John Prendergast offers his take on prospects for conflict resolution and effective peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Katherine Southwick contends that the International Criminal Court's well-intentioned mandate in northern Uganda may have put civilian lives at risk, obstructed peace efforts, and de-legitimized local authority and culture.  
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Looking back at the joint response to civil war in Liberia in 1989, Milkah Kihunah finds lessons for future UN collaboration with regional forces. 
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Jane Thery, an official at the Organization of American States, considers the political and economic reshuffling of Latin America.   
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Five years after the launch of Plan Columbia, Adam Isacson prescribes a more comprehensive, less militarized alternative to the $7.5 billion effort to combat the drug trade. 
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Tanja Srebotnjak and Daniel C. Esty tout the Environmental Sustainability Index as a much-needed quantitative guidepost to gauge national environmental performance and improve policymaking.        
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Kathleen M. Hogan analyzes several transnational water-sharing arrangements, illustrating the ability of policymakers to put aside issues of relative gain when life-sustaining resources  are the object of dispute.
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
By  Jeremy Rifkin
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