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By Frida Ghitis
09 Oct 2008
Last week, when the financial system threatened to unravel in the
United States, European Union leaders called an emergency summit to
devise a common approach to the crisis. In Washington, unseemly
bickering between political parties had already defeated one attempt to
pass a $700 billion rescue package. But what began as an opportunity for
a unified Europe to
act decisively and effectively in a time of peril instead turned into a fiasco, erasing the idea that the EU is anything resembling a single country.
By Qubad Talabany
06 Oct 2008
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World Politics Review
President Barzani has played a major role in "every major milestone in Iraq's development.
His input and involvement in Baghdad with President Talabani has led
to breaking of the impasse on many major issues, including the drafting
and the ratification of Iraq's permanent constitution."
Qubad Talabany, the Kurdish Regional Government's representative to the U.S. and son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, responds to a World Politics Review commentary.
By Richard Weitz
30 Sep 2008
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World Politics Review
Since the formation of the Russian Federation in 1991, the Russian
government has been careful to limit military spending, hoping to avoid
the Soviet error of engaging in a ruinous arms race with the West. As
recently as February, then-Russian-President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed
that Russia "must not allow [itself] to be drawn into [a new global
arms race]." But while Russian defense spending has already been rising
in recent years, one long-term effect of the Georgia War could be to
accelerate Russia's military rearmament.
By Henry Kippin
21 Sep 2008
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World Politics Review
In the wake of last week's power sharing agreement signed by
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and rival opposition leaders Morgan
Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, questions have arisen as to what kind
of government this unlikely alliance will produce, who will hold the
balance of power within it, and whether it is even workable in the
long-term. On the face of it, the three parties -- Mugabe's ZANU-PF, Tsvangirai'
MDC and Mutambara's splinter MDC faction -- look irreconcilably split
on a number of key issues.