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Richard Haass

Writing for PS since 2000
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Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, previously served as Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department (2001-2003), and was President George W. Bush's special envoy to Northern Ireland and Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan. He is the author, most recently, of The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens (Penguin Press, 2023).

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  1. Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq
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    Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq

    Mar 17, 2023 Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed.

  2. Why the War Will Continue
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    Why the War Will Continue

    Feb 23, 2023 Richard Haass sees no quick route to peace talks now that Russia and Ukraine have both ruled out compromise.

  3. The World’s Stake in American Democracy
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    The World’s Stake in American Democracy

    Jan 24, 2023 Richard Haass argues that global stability and prosperity still depend on US resources and leadership.

  4. What in the World Will Happen in 2023?
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    What in the World Will Happen in 2023?

    Jan 2, 2023 Richard Haass thinks Japan’s emergence as a geopolitical player and Iran’s meltdown will dominate headlines this year.

  5. Ten Lessons from the Return of History
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    Ten Lessons from the Return of History

    Dec 13, 2022 Richard Haass catalogs the key expectations and assumptions about international relations that have not survived 2022.

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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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