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Last week, ISN Insights focused on global health issues:

• Global health funding in a piece by Peter A Buxbaum

• Country ownership in global health initiatives and the changing aid patterns in an article by Cynthia Schweer

• ‘Task shifting’ in global health efforts in a piece by Allyn Gaestel

• The global health governance architecture and the possible role of the G20 in an article by Alexia J Duten

• The impact of HIV/AIDS on public health systems in an ISN Podcast interview with Laurie Garrett

This week, we will be examining: Bosnia’s political outlook, nuclear weapons proliferation, the impact of ‘currency wars’ on Africa, corruption and much more.

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Last week ISN Insights examined:

• The uncertainty surrounding the New START treaty in a piece by Peter Buxbaum

• Stalled political reform in Hong Kong in an article by Simon Roughneen

• The Indo-US relationship in a piece by Harsh V Pant

• The increasingly strained Pakistan-US relationship in an article by Salma M Siddiqui

• Sanitation and the importance of toilets in a podcast interview with Jack Sim of the World Toilet Organization

This week we’ll be looking at: Japanese defense policy, Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections and the status of the opposition there, past weekend’s NATO summit, bailout capitalism and Asian power politics in this Friday’s ISN Podcast.

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Last week ISN Insights examined:

• US counterinsurgency strategy in a piece by Gail Harris

• Britain’s flawed strategic defense and security review (SDSR) in an article by Gerard DeGroot

• Bahrain’s post-election landscape in a piece by Philip McCrum

• Tactical nuclear weapons in the New START in an article by Micah Zenko

• The prospects for democratic reform in Tanzania in a podcast interview with Dieudonné Tshiyoyo

This week we’ll be looking at the New START treaty, Hong Kong’s status as a democratic enclave in the PRC, Obama’s India visit, the complex and increasingly fraught Pakistan-India-USA triangle, and sanitation, in honor of World Toilet Day on Friday, 19 November.

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Last week ISN Insights looked at:

• The US mid-term elections in a preview piece by John M Donnelly and a post-election podcast with Bob Benenson of the Congressional Quarterly.

• The Syria-Israel-Hezbollah triangle in a piece by Simon Waldman

• The dynamism of the African National Congress (ANC) in an article by Derek Catsam

• The uneasy China-Burma relationship in the wake of the Burmese elections in a piece by Bernt Berger

This week we’ll be examining: the US military’s COIN (counterinsurgency) strategy, the UK strategic defense review, Bahrain’s elections, tactical nuclear weapons in the New START treaty, and Tanzania’s elections.

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