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Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, is the author (with Andrius Kubilius) of Reconstruction, Reform, and EU Accession for Ukraine (Frivärld, 2023).

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  1. Preparing for Ukraine’s Reconstruction
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    Preparing for Ukraine’s Reconstruction

    Jun 13, 2023 Anders Åslund urges global policymakers to use seized Russian assets to finance the country’s post-war recovery.

  2. Stealing Russia
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    Stealing Russia

    Feb 7, 2023 Anders Åslund shows how the war is redistributing massive wealth and resources to President Vladimir Putin and his cronies.

  3. Fighting Ukraine’s Financial Fire
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    Fighting Ukraine’s Financial Fire

    Oct 11, 2022 Anders Åslund warns that inflation is soaring because the government lacks the resources it needs to continue functioning.

  4. The Failure of European Energy Policy
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    The Failure of European Energy Policy

    Sep 1, 2022 Anders Åslund shows how years of unwise policies, especially German policies, created the conditions for today's shortages.

  5. How to Win Friends and Drain Russia’s War Machine
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    How to Win Friends and Drain Russia’s War Machine

    Aug 4, 2022 Anders Åslund explains why a price-cap on the country’s oil exports would be a win-win for the West.

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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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    Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

    William L. Silber thinks the former president would be even more reckless if awarded another term this year.
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    Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

    Laurence Boone & Nicu Popescu

    The European Union’s cumbersome and narrowly defined regulations for public procurement and spending are not simply inadequate; they are dangerous. They weaken the bloc’s ability to protect itself from a broad range of Russian hybrid attacks while prolonging Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

     propose a European Defense Production Act to help fast-track processes for public procurement and spending.
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    What to Look for in Trump’s First Trial

    Eric Posner

    The intricate legal issues and colorful characters in Donald Trump's criminal trials will undoubtedly keep the media and the viewing public enraptured for months to come. But when it comes to the 2024 election, all that really matters is how the defendant appears to a narrow sliver of undecided voters.

     points out that optics, more than the law or the facts, will be what matters most for the election.
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    AI Holds the Key to Resilient Cities

    Justina Nixon-Saintil surveys the technology's foreseeable applications in promoting urban sustainable development.
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    How Risky Is Japan’s Monetary-Policy Normalization?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the implications of the central bank’s exit from negative interest rates and quantitative easing.
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    As Families Change, So Must the Safety Net

    Neha Bansal urges governments to implement policies that promote intergenerational integration and solidarity.
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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.

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