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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Writing for PS since 2006
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Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace and the author of Prophets without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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  1. Macron’s Gaullist Foreign Policy
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    Macron’s Gaullist Foreign Policy

    May 18, 2023 Shlomo Ben-Ami sees nothing surprising – or unwise – in France’s refusal to adhere blindly to US policy toward China.

  2. The Middle East’s Marriages of Convenience
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    The Middle East’s Marriages of Convenience

    Apr 17, 2023 Shlomo Ben-Ami laments Israel's refusal to embrace the kind of pragmatic deal-making that the Arabs, Iranians, and Turks have.

  3. Peace Requires Betrayal
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Mar 20, 2023 Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.

  4. Netanyahu’s Sabotage of Israeli Democracy
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    Netanyahu’s Sabotage of Israeli Democracy

    Feb 17, 2023 Shlomo Ben-Ami highlights the stakes of the Netanyahu government’s plan to weaken the judiciary.

  5. Peace by Exhaustion in Ukraine
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    Peace by Exhaustion in Ukraine

    Jan 16, 2023 Shlomo Ben-Ami urges Ukrainian leaders not to give their invaders the upper hand in inevitable peace negotiations.

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    A Western Distraction from Climate Action

    Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi warns that calls for the removal of Sultan Al Jaber as COP28 president-designate are a dangerous diversion.
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    How to Restructure Chinese Supply Chains

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that private markets can be leveraged to support a much-needed economic transformation.
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    The Supply Side of Decarbonization

    Ricardo Hausmann touts strategies that create incentives for developing countries to produce renewables and other green goods.
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    America and China Are on a Collision Course

    Nouriel Roubini

    The G7 countries may have set out to deter China without escalating the new cold war, but the perception in Beijing suggests that they failed to thread the needle at their recent summit in Hiroshima. It is now clear to all that the United States, its allies, and any partners they can recruit are committed to containing China’s rise.

     juxtaposes recent developments and current trends with diplomatic happy talk about a “thaw” in tensions.
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    Leveling the Financial Playing Field for Africa

    Amadou Hott & Mark Malloch-Brown propose ways to redress longstanding inequities and enable African-led solutions to succeed.
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    Why the Fed Is Hard to Predict

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    The US Federal Reserve is adrift, and it has only itself to blame. Regardless of whether its policy-setting committee announces another interest-rate hike in June, its top priority now should be to address the structural weaknesses that led it astray in the first place.

     thinks the US central bank's biggest problem is not the economy but rather its own institutional shortcomings.
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.
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    Give America a Debt Brake

    R. James Breiding thinks the United States could learn a valuable lesson from a policy Switzerland put in place in 2003.
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    The Myth of Western Decline

    Chris Patten argues that Chinese leaders’ characterization of liberal democracy as decadent betrays their fear of it.

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