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OCT 29, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Financial Crisis Hurts U.S. Soft Power

The financial crisis could spell the end of America's global economic leadership, but working with other nations and building new institutions of governance may reinvigorate ...

OCT 29, 2008 Podcast

Russia and Georgia: How Did We Get There and What's Next? David Speedie Interviews Oksana Antonenko

This conflict started from the ethnic conflict between the Georgians and South Ossetians, which has a long history, and it also started with Georgian aggression.

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/1062694623/">Capt. Darrick Lee</a>, U.S. Air Force (PD).

OCT 29, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: United States Experiments with African Command

Was it auspicious timing or a bad omen that Somali pirates hijacked a Ukrainian arms shipment the day before the U.S. military launched AFRICOM, ...

OCT 29, 2008 Podcast

God and Race in American Politics: A Short History

Historian Mark A. Noll argues that the reason Barack Obama's candidacy is such an important matter for the American history of race, religion, and politics ...

OCT 28, 2008 Podcast

Public Ethics Radio: Larry May on Habeas Corpus

Are habeas corpus petitions, as Barack Obama put it, "the foundation of Anglo-American law"? Or are they just nuisance lawsuits, as John McCain claims?