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FEB 1, 2011 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: All Aboard for High-Speed Rail

The Obama administration has given passenger rail the strongest federal push since the days of Abraham Lincoln in hopes of spurring job growth and keeping ...

FEB 1, 2011 Article

Bread, Rice and Freedom: The Peasantry and Agriculture in the USSR and China (May/June, 1983)

This article was first published in the May/June 1983 issue of "Freedom at Issue," published by Freedom House. It includes a comparative analysis of the ...

FEB 1, 2011 Article

China: The Romance of Realpolitik (September/October 1989)

This article (written soon after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre) confronts the failure of the &quot;China experts&quot; in academe to penetrate the reality of ...

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FEB 1, 2011 Article

The Promise and Peril of an Independent Republic of South Sudan

Many ask, "Will the newly independent South Sudan become a failed state?" But the real question is, "Can North Sudan remain a viable state without ...

JAN 31, 2011 Podcast

How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle

Pax Americana is a good thing, declares Gideon Rose. The problem is that even when the U.S. wins militarily, it often botches dealing with ...