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1. Economic Freedom and a Healthier Middle East

   The violent storms triggered by the Arab Spring continue to batter the Middle East. As regimes fall, wars rage and nations fracture, is there any reason for hope? A new Fraser Institute study—Institutions and Economic, Political and Civil Liberty in the ...

2. Arab Spring wilts under continued cronyism

   Appeared in the Huffington Post With violence flaring in the Middle East, the Arab Spring seems like a distant wilted dream. Yet, some green shoots have sprouted. The violence that spun out of the Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria (and has ...

3. Want to stop “illegal” immigrants from Central America? Copy Chile

   Appeared in GlobeandMail.com The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador just visited U.S. President Barack Obama to urge him to change course in combatting the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States. The three heads of state ...

4. Free markets and civil peace

   Scholars of armed conflict argue that it must be feasible before it will occur and suggest that adequate finance is a key ingredient for organizing violence against a state. In Free Markets and Civil Peace, we argue that economic repression and market ...