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The Nuclear Deal With Iran

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After more than a decade of negotiations, Iran and its US-led interlocutors have come to terms on a deal to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But will the agreement promote or undermine stability in the region and beyond?

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  1. Saying No to the Warmongers
    Obama announces Iran deal Andrew Harnik/ZumaPress

    Saying No to the Warmongers

    Jul 17, 2015 Jeffrey D. Sachs argues that Barack Obama is right to stand up to America’s permanent security state.

  2. Diplomacy’s Long-Distance Race
    Javad Zarif and Federica Mogherini Brendan Smialowski/Pool/ZumaPress

    Diplomacy’s Long-Distance Race

    Jul 17, 2015 Javier Solana praises the persistence of the negotiators who concluded the Iran nuclear deal.

  3. Where Obama Went Wrong on Iran
    obama iran press conference Ron Sachs/ZumaPress

    Where Obama Went Wrong on Iran

    Jul 17, 2015 Shlomo Avineri criticizes the US for overlooking the geopolitical implications of the recent nuclear deal.

  4. A Belated Victory for Non-Proliferation
    Iran nuclear deal Carlos Barria/Pool/ZumaPress

    A Belated Victory for Non-Proliferation

    Jul 16, 2015 Chris Patten suggests that a better Iran deal was available a decade ago.

  5. Living With the Iran Nuclear Deal
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    Living With the Iran Nuclear Deal

    Jul 14, 2015 Richard Haass calls the agreement a positive step, but not a panacea.

  6. After the Iran Deal
    Delegates from the EU and P5+1 Qian Yi/ZumaPress

    After the Iran Deal

    Jul 14, 2015 Volker Perthes considers two potential outcomes of the recent nuclear agreement.

  1. khrushcheva171_MIKHAIL METZELPOOLAFP via Getty Images_putinkim Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

    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.
  3. wagner22_Lukas SchulzeGetty Images_pollution Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
  4. mallochbrown17_GIANLUIGI GUERCIAAFP via Getty Images_africawomenpolitics Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images

    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.
  5. op_yi2_PEDRO PARDOAFP via Getty Images_chinahousing Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images

    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.”
  8. haldar25_BettmannGetty Images_friedmanreagan Bettmann/Getty Images

    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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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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