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    <title>Afghanistan’s Unavoidable Partition</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US, still mired in a protracted Afghan war that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, has formally opened peace talks with the Taliban, its main battlefield opponent. Tthe most important question is whether Afghanistan's fate will be – or should be – different from that of Iraq and Libya.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Brahma Chellaney</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>US Intelligence, Inc.</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Edward Snowden's leaks of US classified information has demonstrated how little control there may be over individuals within the  intelligence community. More important, Snowden's revelations have highlighted the extent to which the US government has handed over responsibility for highly sensitive programs to for-profit entities.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-privatization-of-national-intelligence-by-simon-chesterman</comments>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Simon Chesterman</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Rowhani Front</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Hassan Rowhani’s election as Iran’s next president has inspired hope of reform in his country, and of a more pragmatic relationship between Iran and the world. But the hard-liners who control the Islamic Republic's nuclear and regional policies have not gone away.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/change-in-iran-under-hassan-rowhani-by-mehdi-khalaji</comments>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Mehdi Khalaji</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Insuring Immigration</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Although open labor migration would bring massive economic benefits, it inspires fear among source and destination countries alike. A "reversible-bond" system would insure both sides against the risks and allow labor markets’ actual needs to dictate migration flows – thus unlocking the global economy's true potential.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a-reversible-bond-system-for-labor-migration-by-anu-bradford</comments>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Anu Bradford</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Copycat Capitalists</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Given the West’s anemic growth performance in recent years, it is hardly surprising that envy of China’s economic dynamism has manifested itself in official policy. But Western countries are shifting to statism at the very moment that China is heading in the opposite direction.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/western-envy-and-emulation-of-china-s-economic-model-by-alexander-friedman</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Alexander Friedman</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>All Quiet on the Currency Front</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The term “currency wars” is a catchy way of saying “competitive devaluation,” and, in the wake of the sharp fall in the value of the yen, the issue is certain to top the agenda at the G-8’s upcoming summit in Northern Ireland. But should it?]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a-currency-war-without-warriors-by-jeffrey-frankel</comments>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jeffrey Frankel</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Central Banking’s New Face</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Recently, the Bank of Japan announced plans to unleash the world's most aggressive quantitative easing program, as part of a comprehensive economic strategy. This coordination of monetary and fiscal policy has spurred a rethinking of central banks' role – and could portend a new era of active and varied monetary policy.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-bank-of-japan-redefines-central-banking-by-paola-subacchi</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Paola Subacchi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>“Mao-Nixon” 2.0</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The “Sunnylands summit” meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama may prove to be a watershed in bilateral relations. Indeed, what Xi wants – “a new type of relationship between major powers” – has its conceptual origins in the historic meetings between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon in 1972.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/obama-and-xi-and-the-future-of-sino-american-relations-by-minghao-zhao</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Minghao Zhao</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Quantitative Quicksand</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US Federal Reserve's expansionary monetary policy has failed to bolster demand and employment growth, while embedding inflation in America's future. Moreover, it has distracted attention from the real problems facing the US economy, which monetary policy is powerless to solve.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-quantitative-easing-has-failed-to-boost-us-investment-and-jobs-by-allan-h--meltzer</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Allan H. Meltzer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Right Stuff in Foreign Policy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action. But, while turbulent times may set the stage for transformational leaders, bold and risk-loving leaders are not always best suited to address the crises that define such periods.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/contextual-intelligence-and-foreign-policy-leadership-by-joseph-s--nye</comments>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Joseph S. Nye</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Is the US Losing Latin America?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world: US power is in decline – and nowhere does this seem truer than in Latin America. But a world power today must combine economic vigor and a popular culture with global outreach on the basis of shared interests, and the US is better positioned than any other power in this respect.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-new-nature-of-us-influence-in-latin-america-by-shlomo-ben-ami</comments>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Shlomo Ben-Ami</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>We, the Corporations?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[One would think that 600,000 comments on a petition would be sufficient to bring an issue to the top of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s agenda. But public opinion does not seem to matter if the issue is mandatory disclosure of political spending by corporations.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/mandatory-disclosure-of-corporate-political-donations-by-luigi-zingales</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Luigi Zingales</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The American Consumer is Not Okay</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The spin-doctors are hard at work arguing that falling unemployment, rising home values, and record stock prices mean that the American consumer – the major drag on the economy in the post-crisis period – is finally back. The facts say otherwise.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/america-s-over-hyped-consumer-recovery-by-stephen-s--roach</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Stephen S. Roach</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Inequality on the Horizon of Need</title>
    <description><![CDATA[By any economic measure, we are living in disappointing times. So it is important to step back and remind ourselves that the “lost decade” that we are currently suffering is not our long-run economic destiny – though higher levels of inequality and relative poverty certainly could be.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a-long-run-economic-destiny-of-mounting-inequality-by-j--bradford-delong</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>J. Bradford DeLong</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Missing America</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A post-American world is taking shape before our eyes, characterized not by a new international order, but by political ambiguity, instability, and even chaos. This is unfortunate, and could be so dangerous that even die-hard anti-Americans end up longing for the passé American century and the US role as a global force for order.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-growing-chaos-of-a-post-american-world-by-joschka-fischer</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Joschka Fischer</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Misplaced Deficit Complacency</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington. Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/america-s-misplaced-deficit-complacency-by-martin-feldstein</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Martin Feldstein</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>A Talking Cure for Syria</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The proposal by the US and Russia to hold a diplomatic conference to end the carnage in Syria deserves a less skeptical reaction than it has received. While it will be difficult to get all of the relevant parties to the table in Geneva any time soon, much less to craft an outcome that will stick, diplomacy is the only game left in town.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-diplomacy-is-the-only-option-in-syria-by-gareth-evans</comments>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Gareth Evans</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Rehearsals for Retirement</title>
    <description><![CDATA[As the first wave of America’s baby boomers begins to retire, the retirement system is revealing its flaws. While a recent international comparison gave the US a passing grade of C, for a large and growing number of Americans, the system is failing.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-to-boost-retirement-savings-in-the-united-states-by-laura-tyson</comments>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Laura Tyson</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Syria Lessons</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The US and Russia are trying to broker a conference that can bring the various sides in the Syrian conflict to the negotiating table. But when no side in a war has a reason to stop fighting, a peace conference cannot succeed.]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-consequences-of-ruling-out-military-intervention-in-syria-by-anne-marie-slaughter</comments>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Anne-Marie Slaughter</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Blinders</title>
    <description><![CDATA[While most of the world is preparing for the end of the era of US global dominance, Americans are not even entertaining the possibility. Worse, public intellectuals, who are supposed to think the unthinkable, challenge accepted views, and prepare people for crucial developments, are shirking their responsibility.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Kishore Mahbubani</dc:creator>
	
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