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Josef Joffe

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Josef Joffe, a member of the editorial council of Die Zeit, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and teaches international politics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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  1. The German Lamb Is Learning to Howl
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    The German Lamb Is Learning to Howl

    Jan 30, 2023 Josef Joffe examines the origins and implications of the landmark decision to send battle tanks to Ukraine.

  2. Putin’s Crazy Game
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    Putin’s Crazy Game

    Oct 10, 2022 Josef Joffe thinks the Russian president is betting on the “Madman Theory” of politics to win what his army cannot.

  3. Green Pacifism Goes to War
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    Green Pacifism Goes to War

    Aug 17, 2022 Josef Joffe examines the roots of the party’s hawkish turn in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

  4. Sarkozy’s Conviction Is a Win for the Rule of Law
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    Sarkozy’s Conviction Is a Win for the Rule of Law

    Mar 3, 2021 Josef Joffe sees in the former French president's sentencing the reaffirmation of a principle going back to Magna Carta.

  5. Germany’s Empty Pipeline Logic
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    Germany’s Empty Pipeline Logic

    Feb 19, 2021 Josef Joffe views Nord Stream 2 as a €10 billion monument to personal gain and an obsolete strategic doctrine.

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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.
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    Peace Requires Betrayal

    Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why Ukraine and Russia will most likely have to pursue an unpopular endgame to stop the bloodshed.
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    Lessons from the SVB Collapse

    Lucrezia Reichlin

    Although Silicon Valley Bank was not deemed to be systemically important, its insolvency forced the US Federal Reserve to head off systemic contagion and exposed the inadequacy of the FDIC’s partial deposit insurance regime. The financial-stability framework adopted after the 2008 crisis obviously needs another overhaul.

     considers what the bank’s failure should mean for the current financial-stability framework.
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    It’s the Banking Regulations, Stupid

    Antonio Foglia traces the Silicon Valley Bank failure back to fundamental flaws in the prevailing governance framework.
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    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. offer a seven-point blueprint for preserving one of the planet’s most important natural systems.
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

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