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Channeling Financial Flows for Urban Water and Sanitation
November 27, 2019 | Daniel F. Runde Providing clean water and sanitation will be one of the greatest global challenges over the next decade due to population growth and urbanization.

Newsletter
Global Economics Monthly, November 2019
November 27, 2019

This month’s GEM features a data GEM on US investment screening, several new written pieces from our experts, and a summary of upcoming and past events.

Commentary
World AIDS Day: Big Questions on the Eve of HIV’s Pivotal Year
November 26, 2019 | Sara M. Allinder This World AIDS Day, there are several big questions facing the HIV community as it looks ahead to 2020. The answers could capitalize on two decades of investment and innovation and bring further progress or trigger backsliding that could lead to regression.

Commentary
Economics Belongs in the NSC
November 26, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman President Trump’s new national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, has laid out plans to downsize and transform the NSC, but his decision to separate international economics from national security decision-making is ill advised and unlikely to be sustainable.

Interactive
U.S.-South Korea Cost-Sharing Negotiations Impacting Korean Public Support for U.S. Security Umbrella
November 26, 2019 | Victor Cha
In Beyond Parallel First, South Koreans are more focused on the financial burden of the U.S. military presence than on the positive security benefits it provides. Second, U.S. demands for $5 billion in cost-sharing are generating the highest ever levels of social media and video commentary...

Report
A Policy Roadmap for U.S.-UK Digital Trade
November 26, 2019 | Kati Suominen In a future post-Brexit free trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, will the United Kingdom be able to bridge transatlantic digital differences, or will London be forced to choose between E.U. and U.S. digital preferences?

Commentary
Fighting but Not Winning
November 25, 2019 | Jon B. Alterman After two decades of U.S. presence in the Middle East, what can we learn from the Chinese approach?

Commentary
Where Is Trade?
November 25, 2019 | William Alan Reinsch Trade remains a backburner issue in the presidential debates. Why is that and what should the candidates be thinking about on this pressing issue? The Scholl Chair explores in his latest commentary.

Newsletter
Ba'athist Blues
November 25, 2019

When a video of an Iraqi graduation began to circulate online, the president of the university in the Shi`a majority province of southern Iraq swiftly issued a


Newsletter
The 66-year alliance between the U.S. and South Korea is in deep trouble
November 25, 2019 | Richard L. Armitage, Victor Cha

The U.S.-China trade war, the South Korean government’s quiet leaning toward Beijing and President Trump’s transactional view of alliances have created a unique constellation of forces.


Newsletter
RESOLVED: Abenomics Is a Viable Growth Strategy for Japan
November 25, 2019 | Hannah Fodale In the eleventh issue of the Debating Japan newsletter series, Ms. Kathy Matsui, vice chair and chief strategist at Goldman Sachs Japan, and Dr. Steven K. Vogel, professor of political science at the University of California Berkeley, share their perspectives on Abenomics.

Newsletter
Middle East Notes and Comment: Fighting but Not Winning
November 24, 2019

Jon Alterman released a commentary on “Fighting but Not Winning,” analyzing two decades of U.S. presence in the Middle East and comparing U.S. and Chinese strategies toward the region.

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