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	<title>Foreign Policy Blogs Feed</title>
	<link>http://foreignpolicyblogs.com</link>
	<description>Shows all posts from the offcial Great Decisions blogs of the Foreign Policy Association</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Carbonomics: The Economics of Cap &amp; Trade</title>
		<link>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/carbonomics-the-economics-of-cap-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/carbonomics-the-economics-of-cap-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elison Elliott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Memorandum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans are a stubborn lot.  We resist change and even the most minor of inconveniences.  And I suspect under the newly emerging ‘Cap &#38; Trade’ schemes being hotly debated in Congress will be no different.  Cap &#38; Trade is an environmental and energy-use policy tool that delivers proven results by mandating an annual global cap on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s Pro-Natalism Miscarries</title>
		<link>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/putins-pro-natalism-miscarries/</link>
		<comments>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/putins-pro-natalism-miscarries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vadim Nikitin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Criticism and Self Criticism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Culture and Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dissent]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dmitri Medvedev]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Inequality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Almost exactly a year ago, one lucky Russian family received a free brand new SUV from the government. What had they done to deserve such a gift? They managed to have a baby on Russia Day - June 12th.
That much publicised campaign was only the tip of a creepy pro-natalist iceberg, including $11o00 cash gifts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearts and Minds (1974)</title>
		<link>http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/hearts-and-minds-1974/</link>
		<comments>http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/hearts-and-minds-1974/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean Patrick Murphy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globalfilm.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why did we go to Vietnam? What did we do there? And what did going there do to us?
Those are the questions asked by “Hearts and Minds” director Peter Davis.
At first glance, “Hearts and Minds” is pure anti-war propaganda. Upon subsequent viewing, however, it shows itself to be a truly hands-off approach to the Vietnam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impacts</title>
		<link>http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/impacts/</link>
		<comments>http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/impacts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Hewitt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Governments and Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Media and Blogs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://climatechange.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to flag four important major reports on the impacts from climate change.  Three of these came out in June, the third a few months back.  What all four do is underscore the urgency of our situation.
As you know, the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRICs in Africa</title>
		<link>http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/brics-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/brics-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kampf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[BRIC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Demonstrating their global reach, Brazil, Russia, India and China are improving ties with Africa. The BRICs are looking to gain influence, friends, access to raw materials and export markets.
Standard Bank of South Africa is publishing a “BRIC in Africa” series focusing on the new players in Africa (the initial report was released in May and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolten: Call for an Israeli Strike on Iran</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/bolten-call-for-an-israeli-strike-on-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/bolten-call-for-an-israeli-strike-on-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Iran Threat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolten intensified the call for an Israeli strike on Iran in an editorial today in the Washington Post. The post-election uprisings in Iran increased sentiment that regime change could result in a halt to the Iranian nuclear program. Bolten criticizes the new administration&#8217;s approach that would likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Draft Dodging</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/army-draft-dodging/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/army-draft-dodging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Israeli Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post, another Israeli citizen received notice from the IDF to report immediately to military service. This time, the citizen in question resides in the United States and is obtaining his medical degree at Colombia University. Even though the student request deferment of his military service and offered to serve in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa Diary #4</title>
		<link>http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/south-africa-diary-4/</link>
		<comments>http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/02/south-africa-diary-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Catsam</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cape Town]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Delivery of Services]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The State of South Africa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://africa.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazingly enough, my hotel in Cape Town has had virtually no internet connectivity for three days. It is both liberating and frightening to feel this out of touch for so long.
Observations from Cape Town:
Amidst all of the generally pessimistic commentary one reads about South Africa, I suppose it is not surprising that we do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor system overhaul into effect</title>
		<link>http://cuba.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/labor-system-overhaul-into-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://cuba.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/labor-system-overhaul-into-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lockhart</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cuban economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cuban government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Socialism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cuba.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More from the BBC on the Cuban economy and the continuing austerity measures, which are apparently successfully cutting energy use without blackouts:
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Meanwhile, Cuban media announced this week that a state decree will allow citizens to hold multiple government jobs for the first time. This is part of the labor overhaul that aims to (1) fill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thaw in Arctic Relations?</title>
		<link>http://arctic.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/a-thaw-in-arctic-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://arctic.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/a-thaw-in-arctic-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mia Bennett</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arctic.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia has announced that it is seeking to improve relations in the Arctic, especially with Canada. It seems that the Kremlin is changing from a realist approach to Arctic strategy to a more liberal institutionalist approach, with talk of cooperation, conferences, and summits. Sergey Petrov, the chargé d&#8217;affaires at the Russian embassy in Ottawa, stated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Casualty</title>
		<link>http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/the-first-casualty/</link>
		<comments>http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/the-first-casualty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://election.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By now the Iranian government has released all but one of the Iranian employees of the British Embassy in Teheran who had been detained for alleged interference in the recent elections.  We have had few details of this harassment because unfettered journalism was one of the first victims of the post-election crackdown.  For example, Newsweek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How hope and fear define Americans &amp; Europeans</title>
		<link>http://eu.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/how-hope-and-fear-define-americans-europeans/</link>
		<comments>http://eu.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/how-hope-and-fear-define-americans-europeans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Garrahy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[US/EU relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://eu.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Europe suffering from a hope-defict? Dominique Moisi a visiting professor at Harvard thinks so and he outlines (in the Brussels beltway premier Newspaper the European Voice) that this may delay Europe&#8217;s revovery from economic crisis. Citizens of the US, on the other hand, he believes suffer from an excess of individual fear of how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delayed Again: CIA Interrogation Report</title>
		<link>http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/delayed-again-cia-interrogation-report/</link>
		<comments>http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/delayed-again-cia-interrogation-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Gambone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cases]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[US cases against suspected terrorists]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The re-release of a May 2004 internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention and interrogation program was again delayed this afternoon, CNN reports.
The document has been requested by the ACLU as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.  It is a report regarding then CIA inspector general John L. Helgerson’s May 2004 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Primers for the President</title>
		<link>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/two-primers-for-the-president/</link>
		<comments>http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/two-primers-for-the-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Dillen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia-US Relations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://russia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Warner (The News Hour) is doing a good job of setting the scene for President Obama&#8217;s visit to Russia next week.  Talking in Moscow with a cross-section of media, government spokesmen, activists and Kremlin-watchers, Warner&#8217;s reports this week paint a fairly nuanced picture.  Stability but arbitrary authority.  Economic growth (until last year) but great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Qaeda (North African chapter) responds to France&#8217;s research on burqa/niqab</title>
		<link>http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/al-qaeda-north-african-chapter-responds-to-frances-research-on-burqaniqab/</link>
		<comments>http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/al-qaeda-north-african-chapter-responds-to-frances-research-on-burqaniqab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan MacDougall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middleeast.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And, unsurprisingly, they are not pleased. Even more unsuprisingly, it is not Al Qaeda in Iraq or Al Qaeda from a cave in Pakistan that responded but Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and for Islamic Maghreb we can read Former French Colonies, particularly Algeria, and the country of origin for a good number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Citizen Obligations Clash with Careers</title>
		<link>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/when-citizen-obligations-clash-with-careers/</link>
		<comments>http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/07/01/when-citizen-obligations-clash-with-careers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Moscovitch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Internal Israeli Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://israel.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Israel mandates 3 years military service for males (and 2 years for women) from all its citizens starting at the age of 18. After fulfilling their duty, citizens must spend approximately 1 month a year serving int he IDF reserves. However, many Israelis avoid military service through a variety of ways, most prominently by claiming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging Powers</title>
		<link>http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/aging-powers/</link>
		<comments>http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/aging-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Kampf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://risingpowers.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Economist developed a multimedia feature about the rich world’s rapidly aging population and the anticipated economic consequences. “At present, the developed countries on average have about four people of working age for every person over 65. But by 2050 this will have come down to only two workers for every pensioner.” With people living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: E. Coli found in Nestlé plant</title>
		<link>http://foodcrisis.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/update-e-coli-found-in-nestle-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://foodcrisis.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/update-e-coli-found-in-nestle-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>foodcrisis</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Food safety]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://foodcrisis.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FDA has confirmed the prescence of E. Coli 0157 in raw samples of refrigerated Toll House cookie dough produced in its Danville, VA plant.  The FDA and CDC had been tracking the E. Coli outbreak, suspecting Nestlé&#8217;s raw Toll House cookie dough, since it was the one food commonly consumed by the over 70 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Price Manipulation in Global Energy Markets</title>
		<link>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/price-manipulation-in-global-energy-markets/</link>
		<comments>http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/price-manipulation-in-global-energy-markets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elison Elliott</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blogroll]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://globaleconomy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=1140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. Senate's permanent committee on Investigations begins an examination of the role of Traders, speculators and Hedge Fund managers in world energy markets, economists and policymakers make a compelling case that price behavior in global energy markets violate basic priciples of economic supply &#038; demand.]]></description>
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		<title>The Prism of Human Rights: Irony and Power Compared in the Middle East and Latin America</title>
		<link>http://latinamerica.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/the/</link>
		<comments>http://latinamerica.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2009/06/30/the/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Basas</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[America in the Americas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Central America on the Left]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chavez, Chavez, Chavez...]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Honduras]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights in Latin America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Middle East and Latin America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OAS and UN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Petroleum and Oil]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poverty and its Legacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Society and Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://latinamerica.foreignpolicyblogs.com/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It came as no surprise to those who knew about the past rights abuses by Iran’s government when many Iranians, especially young Iranians, took to the streets in the last two weeks and were met with brutal retribution affecting every sector of Iran’s vibrant society including intellectuals, the media, youth and diverse cultures. While much [...]]]></description>
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