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<title><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16844.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky]]></description><category domain="16844">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine: The Trial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/ukraine-the-trial/ar-AA1MTJqo</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, at dinner, the discussion turned (as it sometimes does these days) to Ukraine. The debate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'because it was a debate'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'went on for three hours.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Case for Nordic and NATO Realism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/finland-sweden-nato-membership-will-worsen-security-by-robert-skidelsky-2022-05?a_la=english&amp;a_d=6287853b0a4438565c21054d&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=finland-sweden-nato-membership-will-worsen-se</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To be a realist in international relations is to accept that some states are more sovereign than others. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Strict realism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' now requires that Sweden and Finland pause before rushing into NATO'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s arms, and that the Alliance take a step back before accepting them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The False Promise of Democratic Peace]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/democratic-peace-theory-is-wrong-by-robert-skidelsky-2022-04?a_la=english&amp;a_d=625e898d0d5e4ec381e0e32a&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=democratic-peace-theory-is-wrong-by-robert-skidelsky-2022-04&amp;a_p</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky identifies fundamental flaws in the argument that dictatorship is the main barrier to world peace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the Olympics Prevent War?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/olympic-dream-sport-politics-and-ukraine-by-robert-skidelsky-2022-02?barrier=accesspaylog</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky explains why abandoning the myth of an apolitical Games could help to promote peace.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Has All the Money Gone?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/quantitative-easing-has-fueled-financial-instability-by-robert-skidelsky-2021-09</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Quantitative easing risks generating its own boom-and-bust cycles, and can thus be seen as an example of state-created financial instability. Governments must now abandon the fiction that central banks create money independently from government, and must themselves spend the money...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Reversal of Obama Foreign Policy Damages U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/23/trump-obama-foreign-policy-226708</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the administration will fundamentally damage U.S. national interests for years to come.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inconvenient Truths About Migration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/immigration-inconvenient-truths-by-robert-skidelsky-2017-11?a_la=english&amp;a_d=5a1574c578b6c72a0400e6e5&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=immigration-inconvenient-truths-by-robert-skidelsky-2017-11&amp;a_pa=</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standard economic theory says that net inward migration, like free trade, benefits the native population after a lag. But recent research has poked large holes in that argument, while the social and political consequences of open national borders similarly suggest the appropriateness of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Global Storm Clouds Are Gathering]]></title>
							<link>http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/terror-in-paris-symptom-of-western-decline-by-robert-skidelsky-2015-11</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up. Given dangers that seemingly grow by the day, it is worth pondering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Reinvent Globalisation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10554</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Keynes is the Man of the Year]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-lede-t.html?ref=magazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keynes Would Have Seen It Coming]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302090.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Apocalyptic Mindsets on Climate Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&amp;categ_id=5&amp;article_id=92407</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Skidelsky</author>
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