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The Global Thinkers' Book Club
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The Stories You Missed in 2012
Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2013.
How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.
Why President Obama shouldn't accept Israel's policy of defensiveness and despair.
Mystery in Mauritania: Who shot the president?
BY ALEX THURSTON
Should Obama listen to the conventional wisdom in choosing his national security team?
BY PETER FEAVER
Spain and Portugal turn to their old colonies for help
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER
Cairo Embassy tweeter warns of 'dictatorship' in Egypt
BY JOSH ROGIN
Scientists undiscover Pacific island
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Are Singaporeans the world's least emotional people?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Why infrastructure matters for national security
France to back Palestine U.N. bid
BY COLUM LYNCH
DIRECTORY
News flash: the Pentagon’s in fiscal hot water - By Gordon Lubold
Role reversal: Panetta plays it different than he did in 1991; Why the SecDef may stay longer; Women want combat roles; and a little more.
11/28/2012
Launch Your Own Gaza War - By Michael Peck
Help us field-test 'A Reign of Missiles.'
11/27/2012
Why Do We Keep Digging Up Dead World Leaders? - By Uri Friedman
Exhuming the remains of the powerful rarely changes what we know about their deaths.
11/27/2012
Budget Agreement Reached! - By Gordon Adams
5 think tanks warn of things to come for the Pentagon.
11/27/2012
Who said it: Condoleezza or Susan?
11/27/2012
Once again, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has descended into chaos.
11/27/2012
Offensive Maneuver - By Micah Zenko
Why does Leon Panetta hate democracy?
11/27/2012
In Rebel Country - By James Verini
How did 1,000 skinny militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
11/27/2012
Sea Change in Spain - By Michael Shifter
Latin America's economic growth and Europe's debt crisis have turned Ibero-American relations upside down.
11/27/2012