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Nabil Fahmy

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Nabil Fahmy, a former foreign minister of Egypt and former Egyptian ambassador to the US and Japan, is Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC).

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  1. The UN’s Crimes of Omission
    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the assembly during a UN Security Council meeting Spencer Platt/Getty Images

    The UN’s Crimes of Omission

    Mar 14, 2018 Nabil Fahmy upbraids the body and its most powerful members for shirking their peacekeeping responsibilities.

  2. How Can the Arab World Avoid the Abyss?
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    How Can the Arab World Avoid the Abyss?

    Nov 30, 2017 Nabil Fahmy warns that disaster awaits the region if it cannot offer a voice to its predominantly youthful citizenry.

  3. Managing Compromise in the Middle East
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    Managing Compromise in the Middle East

    Oct 21, 2016 Nabil Fahmy argues that space for genuine political deliberation is essential to solving the region's problems.

  4. The US Election and the World
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    The US Election and the World

    Oct 12, 2016 Nabil Fahmy worries that neither candidate will deliver ambitious – and urgently needed – global leadership.

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    Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

    Tatyana Deryugina & Anastassia Fedyk

    When comparing Ukraine’s situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible. But it will require the West, and the US in particular, to put aside domestic political squabbles and muster the political will to provide Ukraine with consistent and robust military and financial assistance.

     compare Russia's full-scale invasion to World War II and see reason to hope – as long as aid keeps flowing.
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    The Pandemic Financing Developing Countries Need

    Rachel Glennerster urges multilateral development banks to establish mechanisms that enable at-risk vaccine purchases.
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    The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis

    Anne O. Krueger urges developed countries to back efforts by the IMF and the World Bank to promote growth-enhancing reforms.
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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

     worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.

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