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The UN has not accomplished much in recent years, but only because the major powers cannot agree, refusing to act on pressing global problems. Instead, powerful nations balk at coordinating action on genocide in Darfur, global warming or violence in the Middle East. “The UN reflects the ability of the major powers to agree – and to back up their agreements with resources,” writes Richard Haass,...

Free capital flow over the past 15 years was supposed to help developing nations, writes Dani Rodrik, political economy professor with Harvard University, with excess funds moving from wealthy nations to worthy projects around the world, smoothing out boom-and-bust cycles and decreasing corruption. However, Rodrik points out that the developing nations with the most successful economies – China,...

Thousands of Iraqis, many moderates and professionals, flee the violence of their nation each month, leaving the armed militias and the poor behind, battling for territory that lacks energy, water and other essential supplies. Before the invasion, the Bush administration had assumed that Iraqis would welcome the removal of a dictator and pursue orderly government. But almost four years later, the...