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Adam Looney: These authors have drafted policies that help the budget and provide economic benefits; they provide a menu of options that policymakers can choose from to help address the 1.5 trillion dollar hole that we dug.
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Michael Greenstone
Adam Looney
Fiona Hill: Putin was brought in to keep tabs on information, a portfolio of skills he built with the KGB. Putin’s manipulation of information moved from the Kremlin to Russia’s businessmen.
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Clifford G. Gaddy
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill: The book culminates how all of Putin’s personalities play out in the current Russian system. Putin uses information to encourage people to doing certain things for goals he laid out to restore the state of Russia.
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Clifford G. Gaddy
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill and Cliff Gaddy: As an outsider, Putin does not have a vested interest in the way things are operated, and that is key to understanding Putin’s “advocate of the free market” personality.
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Clifford G. Gaddy
Fiona Hill
Clifford Gaddy: Putin is a student and man of Russian history. Ultimately, ensuring survival of the Russian state has made Putin a survivalist on behalf of his state.
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Clifford G. Gaddy
Fiona Hill
Fiona Hill: Putin, as a Statist, is someone who is appointed to serve the state, and that’s all that they do. It’s not about individualism. Putin sees his mission as restoring the greatness of the Russian state.
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Clifford G. Gaddy
Fiona Hill
Elizabeth Ferris: More than 600,000 Syrians have fled the country since war broke out in 2011, but the number of displaced persons in Syria is far greater than that. These are people who need basic services and who are enduring unimaginable strife.
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Elizabeth Ferris
Vanda Felbab-Brown: The choices the U.S. makes as we approach and engage in the 2014 military draw-down will largely determine Afghanistan’s future.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown
Vanda Felbab-Brown: Pakistan plays a significant role in Afghanistan’s future and is the primary reason why the Afghan people are facing such a challenging future.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown
Vanda Felbab-Brown: I don’t believe the Afghan people hate government. I met many young people in my travels who, like their parents and grandparents, are unhappy with corruption and crime…they simply want to live and thrive.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown
Vanda Felbab-Brown: The future of Afghanistan is precarious, but not hopeless.
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Vanda Felbab-Brown
Bruce Katz: The U.S. is a federalist republic; if we want a functioning economy, then our system needs to work together like the federation of states, regions and metros that we are.
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Bruce Katz
Mark Muro
Shibley Telhami: Perhaps never more than now, Americans are deeply concerned about what happens in the Middle East and how they impact us here at home.
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Shibley Telhami
The Washington Post’s Barry Sussman looks back on the phone call that connected a Watergate break-in to the Nixon White House.
William Gale: If the Bush-era tax cuts expire and automatic sequestrations of the “fiscal cliff” kick in, the economy will be set on a better overall path – and the specific cuts could be so unpopular that Congress might move quickl
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William G. Gale
Stephen Hess: Our very good, well-trained reporters are “almost dangerous” to presidential candidates who are trying to stay on message. Thus, says Hess, the way the press covers campaigns has changed as well, and not for the better.
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Stephen Hess
Nathan Hultman: While the recent Rio +20 conference failed to produce a transformational vision, emerging economies are nevertheless finding ways to achieve their own plans or form regional agreements to achieve sustainable goals to reduce poverty an
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Nathan Hultman