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Obama’s soft power July 25, 2009

Posted by Sverre in : International relations, World politics , comments closed

Some numbers are out from Pew Global Attitudes on how different nations view the United States after the change in the presidency. Dan Drezner has made some comments on them, saying that this is a measure of how Obama’s soft power policy is changing the world’s  attitudes. But the really amazing stuff has been dug up by Kevin Drum at the Mother Jones blog. Just have a look at this table (click it to see the entire table in its original location):

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These figures are rather amazing. There seems to be only one country where the people don’t think Obama is more likely to do the right thing in international affairs – Israel. And the relationship between Israel and the US can hardly be said to be much like the relationship with any other country…

Hyperlinked data – Tim Berners’ vision for the new internet March 20, 2009

Posted by Sverre in : Methods in political science , comments closed

TED talks are very often great videos to watch, but this one should be a particular wet dream for every empirically oriented scientist:

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