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AIG or WMD?
Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh If you consider where we were only seven years ago, the notion that the world and President Bush’s record would be the victim not to terrorism but to bad mortgages would have seemed incredible. And yet, the political terrain today is not made by the war on terror as much [...]
Obama, the Optimist on Trade
Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between [...]
Obama and the Third Bush Term — A Competent One
In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh Yes, he has succeeded to a degree. He has made it clear that Afghanistan will be the first front in his revised war on terror. By wrapping up Iraq [...]
Human Rights, Trade, and the 2008 Presidential Elections
President Bush is not the only president, or even the first one, to favor trade expansion over human rights protection. Susan Aaronson, expert in the intersection of trade and human rights, seeks to flesh out Bush’s views on how trade affects human rights, with a look at what this means for the current candidates. See [...]
After Bush: Iraq, Foreign Policy, and the Candidates
The New York Times’ recent article on McCain’s visit to Iraq highlights a sticking-point for the presidential candidates’ campaigns – the war factor. But will anything really change? Our own Sadhika Salariya has been working with a couple of authors who have their own ideas about what the next president will bring. “As commander-in-chief, I [...]
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