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Business Development for Democracy
A woman looks at clothes at a stall during the 2nd Asian Women Entrepreneurs Eid Festival 2005 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 10, 2005 (Rafiquar Rahman/Courtesy Reuters). The role of a vibrant...
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Missing Pieces: New Weekly Feature
Egyptians chant slogans against the government and military rulers after Friday prayers in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, July 15, 2011 (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters). This post marks the launch...
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Last week, I sat down with Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, to discuss how her organization is focusing on closing the mobile phone gender gap. Cherie was later joined...
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Guest Post: Liberia’s Emerging Entrepreneurs
Liberia, once a byword for conflict and misery, has become an admired young democracy. Its development challenges, however, remain dire. Liberia ranks 182 out of 187 countries in the 2011 Human...
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Guest Post: Putin and Russia’s Electoral Hoops
International election observation can be an effective way to expose electoral manipulation and encourage democratic reform. But observers’ reports can be used for good as well as ill, and determined...
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Meeting Salafists in Tunisia
In this guest post, my colleague Ed Husain, senior fellow for Middle East Studies at CFR, writes about our discussion with Salafists in Tunisia during our visit there this week. I am no stranger to...
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Guest Post: Entrepreneurs Innovating for Peace in Afghanistan
This guest post is written by my colleague Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a fellow at CFR and deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program. She tells the story of several technology entrepreneurs who...
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Guest Post: Women in the Workforce in the Arab World
Women in the Middle East stand to play a vital role in the region’s economic and political future, if given the opportunity. This week at the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Bank’s senior...
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Guest Post: Ed Husain on How to Counter Islamic Extremism
This guest post is written by my colleague, Ed Husain, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at CFR. Here he discusses his latest Policy Innovation Memorandum, which lays out a plan for countering...
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Guest Post: Daniel Markey on No Exit from Pakistan
This guest post is from my colleague, Daniel Markey, a Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. Here he discusses his latest book: No Exit from Pakistan:...
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Is Kuwait Ready for a Female Judge?
This guest post is by Alessandra L. González, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and author of Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and...
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Guest Post: Daniel Markey on Reorienting U.S.-Pakistan Strategy
Since 9/11, U.S. policymakers have tended to consider Pakistan in the context of the war in Afghanistan and the counterterrorism campaign against al-Qaeda. This year, however, U.S. combat operations in...
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