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Mehdi Khalaji

Mehdi Khalaji

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Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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  1. The Rowhani Front
    px2836.jpg Pedro Molina

    The Rowhani Front

    Jun 19, 2013 Mehdi Khalaji

  2. After Ahmadinejad
    ve1115c.jpg Chris Van Es

    After Ahmadinejad

    May 22, 2013 Mehdi Khalaji

  3. The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide
    dr4631c.jpg Dean Rohrer

    The Enduring Egypt-Iran Divide

    Dec 31, 2012 Mehdi Khalaji

  4. Iran’s Electoral Strategy
    8172a60246f86fe009229866_px1953c.jpg Pedro Molina

    Iran’s Electoral Strategy

    Sep 12, 2012 Mehdi Khalaji

  5. The Ayatollah Contemplates Compromise
    pa2176c.jpg Paul Lachine

    The Ayatollah Contemplates Compromise

    May 9, 2012 Mehdi Khalaji

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    Is “Peace Through Commerce” Dead?

    Harold James doubts that new conflicts and rivalries justify a full-scale rejection of European-style economic engagement.
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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.

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