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House Committee on Foreign Affairs 2-26-2008.

28-Feb-08

Wow! Talk about exciting. I attended a full meeting of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday morning and got a good taste for how Congress runs. While there was plenty on the agenda for the meeting, it really all came down to discussion of saving the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Well, [...]

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Index of State Weakness.

27-Feb-08

Now here’s something worth writing about! I attended an event at the Brookings Institution yesterday entitled Weak and Failed States: What They Are, Why They Matter and What To Do About Them.
In addition to reflecting many of the sentiments that I long to hear more discussion of, they were announcing the release of the new [...]

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