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Lakhdar Brahimi

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Lakhdar Brahimi, a former foreign minister of Algeria, is a former United Nations special representative in Afghanistan.

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  1. How to Prevent Famine in Afghanistan
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    How to Prevent Famine in Afghanistan

    Jan 11, 2022 Lakhdar Brahimi says that three priorities should guide the international community’s efforts to prevent mass starvation.

  2. The Least We Can Do For Syria
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    The Least We Can Do For Syria

    Apr 17, 2015 Lakhdar Brahimi urges people around the world to pressure their governments to protect refugees from Syria.

  3. Sudan between Peril and Hope
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    Sudan between Peril and Hope

    Jan 13, 2010 Lakhdar Brahimi & Desmond Tutu

  4. Cyprus’s Last Best Chance
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    Cyprus’s Last Best Chance

    May 4, 2009 Lakhdar Brahimi, et al.

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    The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis

    Anne O. Krueger urges developed countries to back efforts by the IMF and the World Bank to promote growth-enhancing reforms.
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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

     worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson

    David Ricardo, one of the founders of modern economics in the early 1800s, understood that machines are not necessarily good or bad. His insight that whether they destroy or create jobs all depends on how we deploy them, and on who makes those choices, could not be more relevant today.

     find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.
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    Trump and the Risk of a US Debt Default

    William L. Silber thinks the former president would be even more reckless if awarded another term this year.
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    Europe’s Red Tape Is Helping Russia

    Laurence Boone & Nicu Popescu propose a European Defense Production Act to help fast-track processes for public procurement and spending.

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