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MAR 9, 2012 • Article
Blind to Reality: Invisible Children and the LRA
The Kony 2012 documentary is over a decade too late, says Steven Costello. Promoting a "save the children" storyline (complete with a Joseph Kony awareness bracelet ...
![Vladimir Putin. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3488070937/" target=_blank">World Economic Forum, 2009</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Putin_WorldEconomicForum09_2023-04-10-052052_czlu.jpg?v=1721255236)
MAR 9, 2012 • Article
Russia Bulletin (2012): Russia Bulletin, Issue 4
What's the real deal on the elections? What of Kremlin attacks on election monitors and protestors? How will the United States and the West best ...
![CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrispics/15932770/" target="_blank">Chris Walsh (CC)</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/Handprints_2023-04-10-052056_lxqi.jpg?v=1721251715)
FEB 29, 2012 • Article
Common Good and the Crisis of Globalization
The idea that our self-interests are always bound in some way to the interests of others takes on a new dimension in the age of ...
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FEB 24, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The Kasiisi Porridge Project Story
An innovative NGO in Uganda has helped bring daily porridge to hungry schoolchildren, and it is now expanding with a 20-acre multipurpose farm and indigenous ...
![A member of the Free Syria Army, January 2012.<br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/syriafreedom/6731474915/" target=_blank">Freedom House</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/feature_Syria_Rebel_2023-04-10-052102_ysju.jpg?v=1721242552)
FEB 22, 2012 • Article
Russia Bulletin (2012): Russia Bulletin, Issue 3
What lies behind Russia's veto and its opposition to the U.S.-led hard line on Damascus? Whether or not we agree with them, Russia ...
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FEB 15, 2012 • Article
North Korea: The World's Principal Violator of Responsibility to Protect
The 2005 UN World Summit made a landmark commitment to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Has North Korea violated ...
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FEB 14, 2012 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: U.S. Free Trade Agreement Won't Benefit Colombia
The now-official U.S.–Colombia Free Trade Agreement will dampen growth and make it harder for Colombia to put in place policies for innovation and ...
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FEB 13, 2012 • Article
Why Are We Surprised at Egypt's Backlash against Foreign NGOs?
The outrage over Egypt's arrest of 43 NGO workers, at least 16 of whom are American, is understandable and well deserved. But it also speaks to a ...
![A protester in Cairo, February 2011. <br>CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramyraoof/5416807660/" target="_blank">RamyRaoof</a>](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/feature_Tunisia-protest_2023-04-10-052114_zhrh.jpg?v=1721242558)
FEB 8, 2012 • Article
The Varieties of Protest Experience: How Accountability Gaps Link the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street
Can the recent eruption of protests be interpreted as a single phenomenon, even though spread out across great distances and separated by barriers of language ...
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FEB 7, 2012 • Article
2nd Prize Postgraduate and Teacher Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2011
We've developed an understanding of "sustainability" that indicates that we can "switch" to something else and be okay, but the hard truth that no politician ...