b0b91f0246f86f9c031bb800_pa2889c.jpg Paul Lachine

The Crises Nexus

Policymakers, academics, and journalists have been discussing the global financial crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they somehow existed on parallel tracks. But today’s financial and foreign-affairs crises are closely linked.

NEW YORK – Policymakers, academics, and journalists usually discuss the global financial crisis and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as if they somehow exist on parallel tracks. But today’s financial and foreign-affairs crises are in fact closely linked. Indeed, the way the world has sought to resolve the financial crisis offers interesting insights about how the foreign-affairs crisis should be approached.

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