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Cobus van Staden

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Cobus van Staden is a senior foreign policy researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs.

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  1. Africa’s Gathering Debt Storm
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    Africa’s Gathering Debt Storm

    Sep 2, 2020 Cobus van Staden explains why agreeing to a comprehensive loan-repayment freeze is in creditor countries' self-interest.

  2. Trump’s Travel Ban Benefits Only China
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    Trump’s Travel Ban Benefits Only China

    Feb 13, 2020 Cobus van Staden laments the long-term startegic harm caused by the US administration's racist policies in Africa.

  3. The G20’s Africa Problem
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    The G20’s Africa Problem

    Dec 1, 2018 Cobus van Staden thinks a region that will eventually comprise a third of the world's population should have a seat at the table.

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    The End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Salome Samadashvili

    Initial evidence suggests that the victory of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the recent parliamentary election reflects widespread fraud. If the West fails to support democratic opposition parties in challenging the results, Georgia’s 30-year-old democracy could come to an end.

     urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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    Belarus in the Dock

    Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.
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    Don’t Dismiss the BRICS

    Joschka Fischer thinks it would be a serious mistake for Western strategists to ignore the bloc and what it represents.
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    Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?

    Anne O. Krueger urges policymakers to resume key structural reforms and streamline regulations that stifle business activity.
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    Why Many Workers Now Vote Republican

    Eric Posner explains how the failures of neoliberalism came to benefit the traditional party of business.
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    Japan’s Electoral Stalemate

    Takatoshi Ito considers the political and economic implications of the ruling bloc’s loss of its parliamentary majority.

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