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Elmira Bayrasli

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Elmira Bayrasli is the co-founder and CEO of Foreign Policy Interrupted and the author of From The Other Side of The World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places.

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  1. Climate Crunch Time
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    Climate Crunch Time

    Sep 29, 2020 Bill McKibben interviewed by Elmira Bayrasli about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement 50 years after the first Earth Day.

  2. US Foreign Policy After the Midterm Election
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    US Foreign Policy After the Midterm Election

    Nov 21, 2018 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elmira Bayrasli warn that Trump will be tempted to divert public attention by ratcheting up conflicts abroad.

  3. Entrepreneurship as a Diplomatic Tool
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    Entrepreneurship as a Diplomatic Tool

    Mar 23, 2016 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elmira Bayrasli highlight how the profit motive can help to overcome longstanding political conflicts.

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    China Shuts Down Its International-Adoption Machine

    Yi Fuxian welcomes the government's apparent recognition that a severe demographic crisis looms.
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    From the Year of Elections to the Year of Governance

    Adam Nelson & Kristen Sample highlight five major challenges reformist governments must confront to minimize populist threats.
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    Africa’s Path to Green Prosperity

    Erik Berglöf highlights the potential that a young population and abundant renewable-energy resources represent.
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    Saving the Planet from Plastics

    Jayati Ghosh explains why recycling alone is not enough to mitigate the health and climate effects of overproduction.
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    What Harris and Trump Will Do

    With less than two months to go until the US presidential election, the candidates’ opposing worldviews, objectives, and priorities – and their implications for international relations, the economy, and democracy – have come into sharper focus. While it is impossible to know exactly what a leader will do once in office, the contours of both a Donald Trump and a Kamala Harris presidency are remarkably well defined.

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    The Big Picture

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    Macron’s Trial by Fire

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    Since the start of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris, Emmanuel Macron has reclaimed the initiative and confronted a political situation that is in many ways unprecedented for a French president. Not only has the center held, but the country may have a return to political stability in its sights.

     reflects on the French president's efforts to maintain control after a painful election season.
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    Kamala Harris’s Liberal Patriotism

    Andrés Velasco & Daniel Brieba explain why the Democratic US presidential candidate's appeal to love of country is good politics.
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    Confronting Africa’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

    Hippolyte Fofack urges governments to rethink constraints on public spending and increase investment in human capital.

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