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  • Autocrats Abound

    Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be King And a King ain’t satisfied  ‘till he rules everything.  While these lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 hit Badlands were not penned as an overt political statement, they resonate loudly today with the growing number of entrenched autocrats across the globe. From the shores of the…

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  • This is the seventh and final piece in a series of articles on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president.  This series of articles, which began in June, has figuratively spanned the globe from Beijing to Lagos to Moscow to Tel Aviv to Mexico City and beyond in an attempt to present some…

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