Foreign Affairs


Essay Contest on Individual Rights

If you’d like to write on the topic of individual rights in the Middle East (whether you live there or not), check out the “Dream Deferred” essay contest of the…

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Dare We Hope?

The European Union has offered to end farm export subsidies by 2013 – a major obstacle to talks in Hong Kong on a new global trade agreement. I mentioned in…

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GLOBALIZAREA ESTE MINUNATÃ?Â??’!!!: Globalization is Grrrreat!

Thanks to the good offices of Iulia Borca, whom I first met at an IES-Europe seminar at the Theodor Heuss Akademie in Gummersbach, one of my essays on globalization (“Globalization…

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GLOBALIZAREA ESTE MINUNATÃ?Â??’!!!: Globalization is Grrrreat!

Thanks to the good offices of Iulia Borca, whom I first met at an IES-Europe seminar at the Theodor Heuss Akademie in Gummersbach, one of my essays on globalization (“Globalization…

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Middle Eastern Liberty

I was in Oman for the Economic Freedom of the World Network meeting, which inaugurated the Economic Freedom of the Arab World, a new study that rates 16 of the…

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Inspiring Friends of Freedom

Yesterday and today I’ve had the privilege of meeting with pro-liberty activists from Georgia, Syria, Mauritania, and Iraq. Yesterday my colleagues and I met with Paata Sheshelidze and Gia Jandieri…

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Shafeeq Ghabra: Lamp of Liberty Contributor

Shafeeq Ghabra Dr. Shafeeq Ghabra, president of the American University of Kuwait who is both a classical liberal scholar and an electrifying speaker, has become a regular columnist for the…

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Nic o Nas, Bez Nas!*

For Your Freedom, and Ours** It looks like the Social Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in the Polish elections. The interesting question is what will be the outcome of the…

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Useful Essay on the Struggle for Islam

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Zaiuddin Sardar, who is the presenter for the BBC Two program on Islam mentioned below, had an interesting and helpful essay in the Toronto Star in July…

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The Poor Germans

Jürgen Trittin There is a German expression, “Trottel,” that seems to capture the essence of German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin, who suggested that George Bush was to blame for Hurricane…

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