OP-EDS
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April 16, 2010
"Debates Privilege Style over Substance"
politics.co.uk
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"Clegg was always going to be the biggest beneficiary of the debate, as the other two were relatively well-known, and so even an unremarkable performance would have helped him by introducing him to many voters for the first time. But by the end of the night, the snap polls tended to show that he had come off best in terms of style...."
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April 14, 2010
"The Stark Truth of What the National Debt Means for Us All"
conservativehome
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"That means that the government will be spending more of your tax money on interest payments to buyers of UK government bonds next fiscal year than it will be spending on the entire defence of the United Kingdom. That is almost double the amount it spends on the whole of Scotland, and more than double the amount it spends on the entire law and order budget."
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April 14, 2010
"NI Rise Will Dampen Entrepreneurship"
politics.co.uk
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"The key to halting the slide is to create more entrepreneurs. They create wealth and encourage innovation. They were the key to our national economic success in the past, and they can be again in the future, if only we as a nation do a better job of encouraging them. And it's in this context that we have to judge the idea of a national insurance rise."
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April 13, 2010
"Why Cap-and-Trade Should (and Does) Have Appeal to Politicians"
Vox
By Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Member of the Board; Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Are cap-and-trade schemes working? This column presents a summary of eight existing schemes arguing that half meet the independence property whereby the initial allocation of property rights does not affect the environmental or social outcome and the scheme is cost-effective. This success is a contrast with other policy proposals where political bargaining reduces the effectiveness and drives up cost.
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April 12, 2010
"A Call for German Leadership in Combating Nuclear Terrorism"
By Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Tom Bielefeld, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"...Germany has an opportunity at the Washington summit and thereafter to step up and lend non-American leadership to the problem. Recognizing that in many of the world's capitals the threat of nuclear terrorism is not yet being taken seriously, and when in some of them the very notion is even considered an American pretext for an entirely different, potentially hostile political agenda, non-American leadership is most urgently needed."
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April 10, 2010
"Nuclear Security"
International Herald Tribune
By Mohamed ElBaradei, Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School and Ernesto Zedillo
The 47 heads of state who will assemble in Washington next week for the world's first Nuclear Security Summit should focus like a laser beam on the biggest potential threat to civilization.
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April 9, 2010
"Creating More Entrepreneurs"
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By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"I am unlikely to be the first to point to many of them, and I will not be the last, but I believe that, taken together, they amount to a constructive set of ideas about how to convert Scotland's culture from one which mythologises public services at the expense of enterprise, to one which puts Scotland back on the road to prosperity."
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April 6, 2010
"Trust is the Key to Defeating Islamic Extremism"
The Scotsman
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"...[T]rust must be earned. That also means that police and politicians alike must understand how they are eroding it. Aside from foreign policy, number one on the list is data. Clearly, people will be reluctant to get involved in any programme if they have the slightest suspicion that it is feeding information to the security services, and that their details will appear on some database. If that security service is foreign, especially American, the danger to trust is even greater."
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April 5, 2010
"There is Nothing to Discuss on the Falklands' Sovereignty"
The Huffington Post
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"The fact that they are geographically closer to Argentina is of no consequence. Will the United States hand over Alaska to Russia which is famously visible from Sarah Palin's house as opposed to over 500 miles from the US mainland? Is the US going to give Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands to the Dominican Republic? Are they going to give Hawaii to Japan? Texas and Florida to Mexico? Guam to the Philippines? American Samoa to New Zealand? What about Taiwan, should that be annexed by China?"
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April 2, 2010
"To Heed President Obama's Call to Strengthen the EU, Britain Must First Have a Referendum on Whether to Stay in at All"
The Huffington Post
By Azeem Ibrahim, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20082010
"Over the last decade here, the political landscape has moved in a more Eurosceptic direction. Ten years ago, the ruling Labour party were considering joining the Euro, and the opposition Conservatives were split between Europhiles (as Euro-enthusiasts are called) and Eurosceptics. Now, there is no prospect of Britain joining the Euro in the medium-term, the Conservatives are both relatively united around euroscepticism and ahead in the polls, and more people are voting for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) a party which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU than ever before. In a few newspapers, the words 'EU', 'euro', and 'European' are practically insults."
