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World food price crisis

Feeding Frenzy

Javier Blas | Jul 02, 2008
Wars for oil? Food fights now seem more likely, because we’re paying the price for not keeping up with rising emerging-market demand. Yet there’s light at the end of the tunnel—increasing supply isn’t an impossible task.

Don't Cut the Cheese

Julia Watson | Mar 01, 2004
No more Brie, no more Stilton, no more Gorgonzola. Just what have Washington and Brussels got against cheese? Don't you know there's a war on?

The Dating Game

Zeyno Baran | Mar 01, 2004
American is playing matchmaker to Turkey and the EU. It had better work. A broken engagement could mean a clash of civilizations.

Does the United States Have a European Policy?

Gerard Baker | Dec 01, 2003
Is the United States becoming more skeptical of the EU, or just more confused?

The Sick Man of Asia

Rajan Menon | Sep 01, 2003
Russia's reversal of fortunes in its resource-rich Far East will complicate the Asian equation for the United States.

America as European Hegemon

Christopher Layne | Jun 01, 2003
Despite broad acceptance of the view that the United States has been an "offshore balancer" with regard to Europe over the past several decades, the facts don't fit the theory--the facts of the past dozen years most particularly.
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Commentary

Fixing Egypt's Subsidy Nightmare

Dalibor Rohac | Mar 22, 2013
Cheap gas and bread are draining state coffers and mostly benefiting the rich.

Brave Not-So-New World: A Case for Realism and Multilateralism

J. Peter Pham | Apr 07, 2004
Robert Cooper.

Response to Nikolas Gvosdev: A Western-style Two Party System, Not 'Managed Democracy' is Georgia's Only Hope

Irakly Areshidze | Apr 07, 2004
Writing in last week's In the National Interest, Nikolas Gvosdev goes further than most analysts in telling the truth about developments in Georgia since last November's Rose Revolution.
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Books & Reviews

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

Leon Aron | Mar 01, 2004
A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Gideon Rose | Mar 01, 2003
Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

Meaning Well

Larry Wolff | Dec 01, 2001
Maximilian II managed to be both ahead of his time and behind it simultaneously. His life warns us against allowing ourselves to fall into a similar predicament.

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