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Charles C. Krulak

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Charles C. Krulak, a retired four-star general, is a former commandant of the US Marine Corps and former president of Birmingham-Southern College.

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  1. The US and China Are Not Destined for War
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    The US and China Are Not Destined for War

    Aug 17, 2021 Charles C. Krulak & Alex Friedman list four reasons to believe that the so-called Thucydides Trap can be avoided this time around.

  2. The US Military and the Capitol Mob
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    The US Military and the Capitol Mob

    Mar 3, 2021 Charles C. Krulak sees radicalism among service members as symptomatic of the rift between the US military and civil society.

  3. What Trump Needs To Say
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    What Trump Needs To Say

    Apr 3, 2020 Alex Friedman & Charles C. Krulak draft a sample presidential address to build national solidarity against the COVID-19 pandemic.

  4. The US Needs A Draft
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    The US Needs A Draft

    Mar 12, 2020 Charles C. Krulak thinks a mandatory two-year national service program would help forge a widely shared civic identity.

  5. The New Davos Challenge
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    The New Davos Challenge

    Jan 17, 2020 Alex Friedman, et al. offer concrete proposals for making “stakeholder capitalism” a reality, rather than a slogan.

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    Authoritarianism Is Turkey’s Biggest Economic Risk

    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan believes the current mass protests are about more than the arrest of the country’s leading opposition figure.
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    Asia Must Unite to Survive Trump 2.0

    Lee Jong-Wha highlights ways the region's economies can boost their resilience and global influence.
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    Europe and the Next World Order

    Sigmar Gabriel & Peter Eitel observe that the continent has once again become the fulcrum of global politics.
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    Trump’s $16 Trillion Trade Blind Spot

    Ricardo Hausmann identifies the fundamental flaw in the administration’s efforts to dismantle the postwar international order.
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    A World Turned Inside Out

    Stephen S. Roach

    The geostrategic shock that has accompanied Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the functional equivalent of a full-blown crisis. It is likely to have a lasting impact on the US and Chinese economies, and the contagion is almost certain to spread throughout the world through cross-border trade and capital flows.

     likens Donald Trump’s reversal of America’s global leadership role to a full-blown crisis, similar to COVID-19.
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    Jorge Heine on the BRICS, active non-alignment, the US dollar, and more

    Jorge Heine urges the Organization of American States to demonstrate leadership in Haiti, shows how small countries can implement a foreign policy based on active non-alignment, calls on China and Europe to diversify the global monetary system, and more.
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    Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

    Wolfgang Fengler explains why economic growth alone is not enough to extend the ladder of opportunity to all.
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    Dismantling USAID Could Boost African Self-Reliance

    Hippolyte Fofack

    US President Donald Trump’s dismantling of America’s foreign-aid program may be the wake-up call African leaders need. If necessity is the mother of invention, the end of USAID could galvanize African governments to confront their countries’ challenges head-on.

     sees opportunities to promote local growth following a massive reduction in foreign aid.
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    The Internal Challenge to Afghanistan’s Ban on Girls’ Secondary Education

    Gordon Brown explains why the country’s leadership crisis represents an opportunity to end gender apartheid.

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