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Chris Murphy: “One of the weaknesses of current U.S. policy is that we treat these institutions or tools as if they are stand-alone…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2015
One of the weaknesses of current U.S. policy is that we treat these institutions or tools as if they are stand-alone entities.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Critiques U.S. policy for not integrating various international tools.

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