By Eliot Brockner | Domestic Politics
Many Hondurans as well as outside observers of the country's political crisis breathed a sigh of relief when Profirio Lobo Sosa was sworn in as president on Jan. 27. The new Honduran government is now delicately engaging regional governments, while forging a new path that it hopes will lead the nation away from the debacle that characterized the nation's politics in the latter half of 2009.
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By Thomas P.M. Barnett | Geography and Resources
As one of the "last in" on globalization's bandwagon, China has naturally become an aggressive integrator of frontier economies. Nowhere is this expansion more apparent, and controversial, than in sub-Saharan Africa, where Chinese foreign direct investment and trade have increased several-fold in the past half-decade. That has triggered rising strategic interest in a region long-ignored by the West.
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