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Today the National Intelligence Council (NIC) released a new report outlining the global strategic trends of the next twenty years. The report describes a number of disturbing trends, which could greatly increase the complexity of the international system. However, none of these outcomes are foregone conclusions.

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This weekend, world leaders will gather in Washington to discuss the financial crisis. After World War II and the great depression the world’s leaders recognized that the international financial system was too complex and interconnected for countries to go it alone and responded by establishing the Bretton Woods institutions. The international financial mechanisms they created helped war-torn economies recover – and set the stage for the US economy to grow and thrive atop the global economy for the half-century that followed.

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