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Shalom Lipner

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Shalom Lipner, a nonresident senior fellow for Middle East Programs at the Atlantic Council, served seven consecutive Israeli premiers over a quarter-century at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

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  1. Escaping Bibi's Shadow
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    Escaping Bibi's Shadow

    Nov 15, 2021 Shalom Lipner assesses Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s chances of holding together his fractious government.

  2. America Does Not Need a Rabbi-in-Chief
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    America Does Not Need a Rabbi-in-Chief

    Aug 28, 2019 Shalom Lipner decries divisive and inappropriate statements by both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

  3. Bibi’s Faustian Bargain
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    Bibi’s Faustian Bargain

    Feb 27, 2018 Shalom Lipner asks whether Israel's embattled prime minister will compromise his country to save himself.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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