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Richard Weitz

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Richard Weitz is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute.

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  1. Better THAAD than Dead
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    Better THAAD than Dead

    Aug 10, 2016 Richard Weitz warns that the alternative to missile defense in Northeast Asia is nuclear weapons.

  2. Putin’s Winning Streak
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    Putin’s Winning Streak

    Dec 29, 2014 Richard Weitz traces the implications of Russia's recent diplomatic progress in Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan.

  3. Nobel’s Toxic Avengers
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    Nobel’s Toxic Avengers

    Oct 12, 2013 Richard Weitz on the merits of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for mitigating the threat of chemical attacks.

  4. Obama’s Russian Roadblock
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    Obama’s Russian Roadblock

    Jul 16, 2013 Richard Weitz

  5. Nuclear Disarmament’s Asian Pivot
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    Nuclear Disarmament’s Asian Pivot

    Mar 25, 2013 Richard Weitz

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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al.

    While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that aren’t under immediate threat.

     present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

     explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

    Michael R. Strain decries both parties’ reluctance to prepare Americans for the employment opportunities of today and tomorrow.
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    Harris Is the Freedom Candidate

    Joseph E. Stiglitz sees a common thread running through the Democratic nominee’s economic agenda.
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    The Global Economy’s Hidden Weaknesses

    Eswar Prasad looks beyond promising headline trends to identify deep-seated risks and barriers to growth.

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