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• • Daniel Drezner
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• • Morning Brief: Demonstrations met with violence throughout Middle East
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• • How Obama Lost Karzai - by Ahmed Rashid
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• • The Middle East Channel: Why new electoral rules matter
  • Marc Lynch: Intervening in the Libyan tragedy
  • FP Passport: Tony Blair meets Muammar al-Qaddafi
  • The Multilateralist: Down with the WTO!
  • FP Passport: The shattered myth of a moderate Qaddafi heir
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  • Daniel W. Drezner: Why are Middle East dictators so bad at media?

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• TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT

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• SWORD OR SAMOVAR

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  Tom Parfitt continues his journey through Russia's violent frontier.

• SPECIAL REPORT

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  Tina Rosenberg reveals what Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic.

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• IDEAS

  Are the World's Poorest Countries Really Making Dark-Age Wages?

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