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Averting maximal disaster in Iraq may require controlled population resettlement. We need to start thinking about it now.

Current concern over post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction policies has an instructive history.

An Environment-8 to match the Group of 8.

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I recently visited Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, in connection with some work I’m doing for the World Bank.  Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has been one of the great experiments in state-building by the international community.  East Timor was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when it was briefly set free and then immediately conquered by […]

I recently visited Dili, capital of Timor-Leste, in connection with some work I’m doing for the World Bank. Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) has been one of the great experiments in state-building by the international community. East Timor was a colony of Portugal until 1975, when it was briefly set free and then immediately conquered by […]