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A thinly-traded currency on the horn of Africa has been getting some attention in the past 100 days. The historically-weak Somali shilling has been fluctuating violently against…
Any lingering doubt about the extant relationship between sport, foreign policy and international relations should be removed by news that London Olympics security measures will…
These days in Europe, no one would any longer doubt the truly political nature of the common currency, the Euro. After all, it is an open secret that the Euro’s architects…
A little more than two years ago in this blog, I wrote of a crisis coming to the German government. Looking back, one can indeed say that the government has been in a…
Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter’s talk in Parliament in London this week offered useful insights into how the Obama administration and foreign policy analysts around it are…
This week, the Department of Justice formalized its interest in Google from an antitrust perspective. This is a prosecution that, if it moves forward, could have global…
Many of today’s amazing things H.G. Wells imagined years earlier: electrical tools capable of reviving the unconscious, manned space travel to and from the moon, machines…
A year ago, at Aman’s Amanjena resort in Morocco, I was thinking the global ruling class is slowly deconstructing its calendar. The monied migration, once defined by events…
After attending the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit, I spent a bizarre weekend with a friend wandering around a place with a ruler who criminalised the formation of…
I was chatting on Skype today with my friend Walter, a fellow University of Chicago alumnus living in East Africa. Walter lives in Kenya and I live in Uganda – our countries…