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Mar 18, 2008

Bush Leadership in Meltdown Troubles Investors

By Frederick Kempe

The cost of faltering American leadership is growing as quickly as you can say Bear Stearns. And the stakes in the U.S. election campaign increase with every dismal twist of the economic cycle. Much of what we are watching feels like an emerging-market meltdown to top international financiers: runaway debt, a declining currency, imploding markets, […]

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Feb 29, 2008

Russia’s Medvedev Deserves Handshake, Nosehold

By Frederick Kempe

Russia’s presidential vote Sunday poses a dilemma for Western leaders and American presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. Is it better to condemn the rigged elections or embrace the victor in hopes of encouraging a more cooperative Kremlin? Answer: Hold your nose with one hand and extend the other to Dmitry Medvedev, […]

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Feb 14, 2008

Clinton, McCain, Obama Dominate Europe’s Halls

By Frederick Kempe

Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama were all that Europeans wanted to talk about in the hallways and at the dinners of the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy over the weekend.

Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Feb 5, 2008

Afghanistan Spins Out of Control, U.S. Fiddles

By Frederick Kempe

NATO is winning most battles in Afghanistan, but the international community is losing the war.That has consequences far beyond Afghanistan if the U.S., Europe and its friends don’t change course fast. The dangers include deepening of regional instability that engulfs nuclear- tipped Pakistan, spreading global terrorism and the declining relevance of the North Atlantic Treaty […]

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Jan 22, 2008

Chinese, Gulf Funds Deserve U.S. Welcome Mat

By Frederick Kempe

It’s good and bad that the issue of sovereign wealth funds has entered the U.S. presidential debate. What’s positive is that the candidates have the chance to educate the American electorate during a moment of mounting economic gloom — and while people are paying attention — about the increased role that foreign capital plays in […]

United States and Canada

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Jan 8, 2008

White House Winner Must Play New Game Overseas

By Frederick Kempe

When ­American voters get in one of thei­r “change” moods, as demonstrated by the galloping fever for Democratic presidential contender Barack ­Obama, they discount the value of foreign-policy experience in their candidates.

New Atlanticist

Jan 3, 2008

Bhutto Killing Breeds a Failing Nuclear State

By Frederick Kempe

Two months ago I suggested that, amid the Bush administration’s focus on Iraq’s present dangers and Iran’s future perils, Pakistan was most likely to produce a so- called black-swan event.

Pakistan

New Atlanticist

Dec 20, 2007

Ukraine’s Second Chance

By Adrian Karatnycky and Jan Neutze

Travel south from Kiev along the arbored R-12 highway and you will see perhaps the most public symbols of Ukraine’s rampant corruption: a wide array of luxurious estates that have sprung up in Koncha-Zaspa, a leafy suburb of the capital. Many of these multimillion-dollar homes belong to senior state officials with only modest salaries. Investigative […]

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New Atlanticist

Nov 6, 2007

Bush Should Offer France’s Sarkozy a NATO Deal

By Frederick Kempe

Bush administration officials have been engaged in a quiet debate about how eagerly to seize a chance to improve French-U.S. relations during President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Washington visit, which started yesterday.

NATO NATO Partnerships

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Nov 4, 2007

Pakistan Gets My Vote for a Black Swan Event

By Frederick Kempe

Washington is obsessed with the war in Iraq, the danger of Turkish troops clashing with Kurdish militants and President George W. Bush’s possible showdown with Iran over its nuclear weapons ambitions.

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