Did U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke cause the Ukraine crisis? "You can certainly say that Bernanke was at least the butterfly wings that precipitated the crisis," argues Benn Steil, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "Taper Trouble" in the July/August 2014 edition of Foreign Affairs. "I would argue that if the Fed had remained dovish, say for another six months or so, it is possible that Ukraine could have gotten over this hump and Yanukovych would still be in power today."
Steil recently sat down with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose for a wide-ranging conversation on the international consequences of Fed policy. 
Original video interview published on ForeignAffairs.com on August 2, 2014.

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everywhere, and economists, investors, and ordinary citizens are starting to
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seems to know what to do about it. 
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Around the world, incomes and wealth for the majority have stagnated even as they have skyrocketed for those at the top. In part two of Foreign Affairs' coverage on inequality, we explore what works and what doesn’t, from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia, to new kinds of taxes, to Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ own economic proposals. Hear it from the experts themselves: featuring interviews with Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman, British economist Anthony Atkinson, and political scientist Kimberly Morgan.
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Inequality: Part 2 What Brazil Gets Right, A New Kind of Taxes, and What Trump and Sanders Have To Offer

In part one of a two-part series on inequality, we delve
into the rise of economic inequality, when and why it matters, and what to do about it.
Featuring Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, Allison Schrager, New
York–based economist and writer, and Ronald Inglehart, professor at the University
of Michigan.




















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Part II of a two-part series highlighting the best Foreign Affairs Unedited podcasts of 2015, we revisit some of our favorite conversations on women and gender from around the world. Featuring interviews with Ira Trivedi on bride trafficking in India, Nadia Hashimi on Afghanistan’s female sons, and Adrienne Mayor on the myth and reality of the Amazons.
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The Best of 2015: Gender Politics Around the the World

Part II of a two part series on the new Middle East—Gideon Rose, Dan Byman, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, and Hamid Biglari chime in on the United States’ response to ISIS after the Paris attacks, counterterrorism in the Middle East, and Iran’s post-sanction economy.

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