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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Writing for PS since 2006
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Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace and the author of Prophets without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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  1. Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Jan 20, 2025 Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.

  2. The Fall of the House of Assad
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    The Fall of the House of Assad

    Dec 9, 2024 Shlomo Ben-Ami agrees with Iran’s former vice president that the Syrian regime’s collapse will transform the Middle East.

  3. The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback
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    The Causes and Consequences of Trump’s Comeback

    Nov 8, 2024 Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the reasons for – and implications of – US Democrats’ resounding election failure.

  4. The Middle East’s Deadly Dream Palaces
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    The Middle East’s Deadly Dream Palaces

    Oct 4, 2024 Shlomo Ben-Ami traces the delusions of Arab, Iranian, and Israeli leaders that have kept the region mired in violence.

  5. Why Rome Still Matters
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    Why Rome Still Matters

    Sep 11, 2024 Shlomo Ben-Ami considers the ancient empire’s hold on the popular imagination and what its history has to teach us.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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