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April 18, 2007
World Bank Woes
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Paul Wolfowitz's current travails are hardly the only difficulties he has had to face since becoming president of the World Bank in March 2005. As Sebastian Mallaby then wrote in Foreign Affairs, the World Bank's tenth president was bound to inherit the unenviable task of saving the organization from the attacks of those both on the left and the right who questioned its purpose, effectiveness, and relevance. But save it we must, argued Mallaby, because the World Bank remains the best international tool for channeling globalization to positive ends for the sake of the world's poor.
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Previously in Background on the News
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Public to Bush: Enough Already
April 4, 2007
Public anguish over Iraq is spilling into other areas of U.S. foreign policy, according to the latest results from the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index. . . . Read more
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The Hill is Alive With the Sound of Hearings
March 21, 2007
As the Democrats approach their 100th day in control of Congress, one thing has already set them apart from their Republican predecessors: the large number of oversight hearings on issues relating to foreign and national security policy. . . . Read more
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Going South
March 7, 2007
During his Latin American tour this week, President George W. Bush will be championing the United States' long-held belief that liberal democracy and market economics are the keys to improving the lot of the region's poor masses. But he will find himself on the defensive on a continent where many question the merits of Washington's pro-market logic and Venezuelan-style economic populism is gaining ground. . . . Read more
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Foreign Affairs
Bestsellers
for April 2007
The topselling books on international affairs based on national sales at Barnes & Noble stores and barnesandnoble.com during March 2007.
- Palestine
Jimmy Carter
- The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman
- Second Chance
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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1. Unprepared for a Pandemic by Michael T. Osterholm (March/April 2007)
2. Blowing the Horn by John Prendergast and Colin Thomas-Jensen (March/April 2007)
3. College Goes Global by William R. Brody (March/April 2007)
4. The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood by Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke (March/April 2007)
5. India's Democratic Challenge by Ashutosh Varshney (March/April 2007)
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