Σάββατο 8 Μαρτίου 2014

Exploding the Myth That Government Can't Innovate


Clint Wilder

Government should not pick winners and losers. Public sector bureaucracy strangles entrepreneurship and innovation. Government can establish broad policy framework, but then should get out of the way.

Ukraine highlights a crisis in British foreign policy created by its retreat from an EU role


Ukraine highlights a crisis in British foreign policy created by its retreat from an EU role
By Michael Emerson, The Centre for European Policy Studies

Events in Ukraine mark not only the start of a momentous shift in the region, but serve to chart the disturbing erosion of Britain’s global clout. If only the UK government would take its lead from the approach taken by its embassy in the heart of Kiev.

Stephen M. Walt : Obama gambled that U.S. power would trump Russia's interests in Ukraine. He was wrong.




BY Stephen M. Walt 

The Obama administration was clearly taken by surprise when Russia decided to seize Crimea by force. The real question, however, is why Obama and his advisors thought the United States and the European Union could help engineer the ouster of a democratically elected and pro-Russian leader in Ukraine and expect Vladimir Putin to go along with it? This remarkable combination of hubris and naiveté is even more striking when one considers that Washington has few, if any, options to counter Putin's move. 

Σκόπια: Προεκλογική σχιζοφρενική κρίση εθνικής ταυτότητας. Tα κέρινα αγάλματα των «Μεγάλων Μακεδόνων

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