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There may be some efforts to slow down IPAB implementation by refusing to feed it with funding. So the likelihood is that this may die a slow, quiet death over several years, as opposed to the great horrors that people are imagining.

The U.S. failure to support the uprisings that President Bush himself had called for remains a source of suspicion and resentment to this day, particularly among Iraq's Shias who were massacred by the thousands by Saddam while the US stood by.

The U.S. plan to establish a dedicated Africa Command has sparked suspicion on the continent. Both the United States and African countries need to revise the proposal.

During two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members discussed the latest in financial regulation issues. At a luncheon briefing following these sessions, SFRC members gave several statements and answered questions.

Though no longer a Cold War rival, Russia continues to pose immense challenges for the United States. The Kremlin’s perception of Russia as an “independent pole in a multi-polar world” often results in Russian policies that place the country at odds with the West. Russia’s current political elites are determined to prevent—and in some cases roll back—color revolutions in the former Soviet Union. They fear that successful democratization on Russia’s periphery will rouse similar demands at home. Regardless, the Kremlin’s ineffective authoritarian governance has stimulated a wave of large-scale protests in recent months that likely mark the beginning of Russia’s transition away from the Vladimir Putin era.

This book argues that water markets introduce flexibility, reduce waste, allow fairer distribution andmore rational development of new resources, and therefore smaller environmental impacts.

What is the point of development aid to a region that will condone mass murder and the wholesale theft of property rights?