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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Games in the Taliban Negotiations]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vanda Felbab-Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That the Taliban has agreed to negotiations is not surprising. It has much to gain from participating in negotiations &ndash; yet almost no incentives to agree to any sort of a deal before 2015. Nor should the controversy regarding President Hamid Karzai&rsquo;s first endorsing the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Visit to Mexico: Key Anti-Crime Issues]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Vanda Felbab-Brown</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Up to two weeks ago it looked like President Barack Obama would be going to Mexico with a very strong hand. Had the gun control measures, which the Obama administration pushed as one of its key domestic issues in the second term, passed in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. President could have...]]></description>
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