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Posted On: Jul 09, 2010
World Policy Journal's 2010 Summer issue takes an in-depth look at the global health crisis. Writers in India, Brazil and France take us inside the medical systems that spend, respectively, $30, $300 and $3,000 on health care per person per year. While the differences are critical, the similarities are all too often frightening. From London, an investigation into the global spread of pharmaceutical counterfeiting. In Ghana, a story that explores the legacy of neglect in public sanitati...
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Posted On: Jun 28, 2010
On June 21, the Connect U.S. Fund convened a group of over 25 people to discuss policy options for the upcoming Arms Trade Treaty negotiations. This document is a report-back from that meeting. It includes an Annex detailing policy goals for a strong and robust Treaty.
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Posted On: Jun 16, 2010
by Benjamin H. Friedman and Christopher Preble Benjamin Friedman is a research fellow in defense and homeland security studies at the Cato Institute, where Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies. They are members of the Sustainable Defense Task Force, an ad hoc advisory panel created by Rep. Barney Frank.This article appeared in The Los Angeles Times on June 14, 2010. Recent reporting has claimed that the Pentagon is fighting to trim the defense budget, valiantly protecting ...
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Posted On: Jun 03, 2010
by Christopher PrebleOver at National Journal’s National Security Experts blog, this week’s question revolves around the health of the U.S. economy, and its relationship to U.S. power. The editors ask: How serious a threat is the mounting debt to the nation’s standing as the world’s only superpower? Can the U.S. continue to spend more than all other countries combined on its military forces given burdensome debt levels? In what other ways does the mounting debt undermine the count...
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Posted On: May 25, 2010
Avoiding Pyongyangby Doug Bandow05.24.2010After an investigation of nearly two months, the Republic of Korea (ROK) has concluded that North Korea torpedoed the Cheonan, a corvette thatsank in the Yellow Sea in late March. Today, Seoul is going to the United Nations Security Council.South Korea must respond to the attack. But no strategy is free of danger. And the ROK's military alliance with America makes it more difficult forboth nations to act in their respective interests.Full article li...
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Posted On: May 20, 2010
by Ted Galen Carpenter05.19.2010 Akbar Ganji is someone U.S. officials should heed when it comes to policy toward his native Iran. Ganji, a writer and journalist who became the fifth biennial recipient of the Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty on May 13, hasn’t just talked the talk when it comes to working to establish a democratic Iran, he has walked the walk far beyond what most people could endure. During the late 1990s, he presented evidence that the mullahs were behind the ass...
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Posted On: May 20, 2010
by Doug BandowThis article appeared on The Daily Caller on May 19, 2010. The easiest way for an American to fly into Afghanistan is on Kam Air from Dubai. But it appears that only Americans fly into Afghanistan on Kam Air from Dubai. Almost, anyway.The vast majority of passengers on my flights into and out of Kabul were white males, many with military-style haircuts and several with military tattoos. A few may be on active duty. Most probably are private security consultants. As in...
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Posted On: May 19, 2010
Posted by Ilya ShapiroOn Tuesday I discussed the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down laws that allow juveniles to be sentenced to life without parole (LWOP) for non-homicide crimes. What concerns me here isn’t so much the morality or policy wisdom in applying such sentences — though Chief Justice Roberts makes some good policy points in his concurrence — or even the interpretation of what constitutes a “cruel and unusual punishment” — which I think Justice Kennedy mishan...
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Posted On: Apr 09, 2010
April 2010 edition of NATO Watch’s monthly Observatory. The focus is on NATO policy-making and operational activities and the clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide.
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Posted On: Mar 09, 2010
www.natowatch.orgJournalists and researchers writing about NATO need to be able to quickly find accurate and reliable information at their fingertips. Congressmen and women and members of the public need to keep up to date with developments in an Alliance that impacts on over 890 million citizens within the 28 Member States - a number that increases to 20 per cent of the global population when Partner ...
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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
Background Reporting to the UNDP Administrator in her capacity as UNDG Chair, the Director has the overall responsibility to lead and manage the global UN Millennium Campaign in realizing its mandate from 2010-15. The UN Millennium Campaign is an inter-agency initiative created by the UN Secretary-General in 2002. The mandate of the Campaign is to create the political will required for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, within the broader remit of the Millennium De...
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Posted On: Feb 01, 2010
The Stanley Foundation seeks a Program Associate for a 24-month limited-term position to work in support of the foundation’s overall goal of promoting principled multilateralism in international affairs, which is at the core of all foundation programming. In particular, this position will involve: * Substantive and administrative support work for the Stanley Foundation’s various policy and outreach activities on US foreign policy and global security issues. * Support of the Stanley Foun...
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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Supervisor: The Executive Director is hired and supervised by the Jubilee USA Board of Directors. Location: Washington, D.C. Summary of Responsibilities: This is a key leadership position overseeing an organization of six staff. The organization is an alliance of more than 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, international-development, environmental, labor, and community groups, and more than 20,000 individuals, working for the definitive cancellation of crushi...
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Posted On: Jan 11, 2010
Monthly newsletter focusing on NATO policy-making and operational activities. The clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Dec 16, 2009
This report from the European Climate Foundation describes how "Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) could be used as a financing mechanism for climate change mitigation and adaptation for least developed countries (LDCs)." The idea was announced by George Soros at a press conference at COP15 in Copenhagen on 10 December 2009. The document provides ackground information on SDRs, details how such an SDR based mechanism might function, and highlights some open questions and challenges.
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Posted On: Dec 08, 2009
The fourth edition of NATO Watch’s bi-monthly Observatory newsletter. Our focus is on NATO policy-making and operational activities and the clips are drawn from a wide range of subscriptions, feeds and alerts covering a substantial part of the major English language newspapers and other periodicals worldwide.
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Posted On: Dec 04, 2009
Treaties are a tough sell for many groups promoting responsible U.S. global engagement. With their scattered domestic constituencies and small but vocal opposition, multilateral treaties are likely to get stalled in the ratification process -- sometimes for decades. On Nov. 19, U.S. in the World led a messaging briefing and discussion focused on the treaty process. Their powerpoint presentation is attached.
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Posted On: Dec 01, 2009
BackgroundUnder the guidance and direct supervision of the Director of the Washington Liaison Office (LO), the Communications Specialist supports the corporate communications strategy; provides strategic/operational advice to the LO outreach, communications and publication strategies to inform key Washington, D.C. (WDC) constituencies about UNDP's role in global development, and promote support for UNDP's mission and programs; as well as develops and ensures the implementation of the LO's c...
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Posted On: Nov 24, 2009
A joint letter to President Obama from the Connect U.S. Fund, InterAction, USCAN and 1Sky. The letter calls on the President to build on his initiative at the G20 to end fossil fuel subsidies by initiating the phase out of those subsidies in the U.S., and to redirect those subsidies to international climate finance efforts.
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