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* Jorge Castaneda contends that only Latin America's ex-communist left can stop the region's populists.
* Lawrence Freedman declares that Margaret Thatcher's forgotten war turned Tony Blair into "Bush's poodle."
* Michael Shifter shows how Washington can checkmate Hugo Chavez.
* John Rapley argues that the future of international relations will be a lot like the Middle Ages.
* Martin Feldstein says that a rise in U.S. household savings could be a catastrophe for the world economy.
* Ruth Greenspan Bell explains that stopping climate change will require empowering developing countries.
* Samuel Palmisano, CEO of IBM, hails the advent of the global corporation.

Plus: Pro-Americans in Europe: Walter Russell Mead reviews Bernard-Henry Levy's American Vertigo and Josef Joffe's Uberpower, and Haaretz columnist Tom Segev reviews Gershom Gorenberg's The Accidental Empire.

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"John Rapley" "middle ages" "foreignaffairs"

UPDATE: The essay is available in HTML. The full text is available in PDF (though it is rather poorly formatted). See also this PBS special on El Salvador, which reprints extended excerpts from the essay.

* John Rapley argues that the future of international relations will be a lot like the Middle Ages.

Some sunshine on a cloudy day...

Try a Google search for "John Rapley" "middle ages" "foreignaffairs"