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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…
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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 that…
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 like…
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 are…
The news that northern areas of Kenya were suffering famine came as a surprise to analysts on many fronts. Kenya is seen as a stable East African growth economy and Nairobi, its…