American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Nationalistic competition between Japan and China could undermine progress on economic and security concerns in east Asia. U.S. diplomacy has an important role in preventing that.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Curtailing the ability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to hold mortgages and mortgage-backed securities will lower the risks these two government-sponsored enterprises pose to taxpayers and the economy yet will not undermine whatever support they give to the residential housing market.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Indignation over the perceived insult rendered by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers in suggesting the possibility of innate differences between men and women has exposed the lack of intellectual debate that prevails in modern academia.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Personal retirement accounts with a structure using inflation-indexed Treasury bonds would deliver the benefits of personal accounts without the risks or costs often cited by critics of such accounts and could transform Social Security.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Paul Wolfowitz can provide effective leadership for the World Bank by expanding monitored performance grants to poor countries and by rewarding staff members who develop programs that genuinely improve the quality of life for the poor.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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David F. Bradford (1939-2005), professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, was an AEI adjunct scholar and occasional visiting scholar, and the author of several AEI studies of tax policy issues, which are listed with other important works of his at the end of this essay.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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The Iraqi election demonstrated for the first time in Arab history that national sovereignty can be achieved without tyranny. The pictures of courageous Iraqi voters and of the images to follow of the incipient democratic government of Iraq can inspire popular desire to open up regimes throughout the Arab world.
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International Relations, Democratization, and Government
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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North Korea recently announced that it had “manufactured nukes,” that “these weapons” would be kept “for self-defense under any circumstances,” and that Pyongyang would immediately suspend its participation in further six-party denuclearization talks for an indefinite period. So much for probing North Korea's nuclear intentions. That game is now over. With the illusions of the international community's engagement theorists suddenly and nakedly exposed, the rest of us are obliged to face some unpleasant truths about the unfolding proliferation spectacle in the Korean peninsula.
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International Relations, Security, and Nuclear Weapons
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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President George W. Bush's inaugural call to spread liberty across the globe has been criticized as overly ambitious and optimistic, yet history shows that democracy can take root even under the most difficult conditions and that democratic societies are largely peaceful.
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International Relations, Foreign Policy, Democratization, and Economics