Wednesday Links 01.08.07

Istanbul, via Ingsoc's photostream

In Washington, Peter Levine has an excellent piece on tension between grassroots economic development and citizen participation communities in the US. It got me thinking about a similar tension on the global level.

In London, the Economist writes about the economics of exporting democracy.

In New Haven, my favorite new blog by Chris Blattman imagines what an established AFRICOM would do to intervene in Kenya.

In Silicon Valley, the TED blog follows the crisis in Kenya.