I view much of the unrest as being driven by kind of an autocratic, oil-dominated economy where corrupt people at the top skim off a lot.
How can the United States not firmly be on the side of people who are being violated in this systemic way?
What we are not seeing yet is a willingness to discuss real economic policy change.
Major economic changes have to be made, and I am sure you will hear from Moises Naim a bit more about that.
So there is a political cause for economic suffering and the leaders are not taking the steps needed and not tackling the fundamental change...
I am concerned that without a democratic space in which people feel they have an opportunity to express their opinion, to speak freely, hard...
When the elections were held and Maduro won over the opposition, I think I was in a tiny camp that was not sure it would be a good for the o...
Devoting resources to adventurism in foreign policy would seem to be less and less tenable economically.
It may be the gravest crisis that we face, should the end be an invasion of an article 5 country.
We must take a similarly principled stand on Crimea even while currently focused on eastern parts of the country.
Here is something we could do economically that would really hurt Russia.