Snacks for Thought: May 20, 2009

Snacks for thought is a weekly round-up of thought-provoking stories, commentaries and interviews from around the world.

1. When visiting Caesar; how diplomatic visits to the White House work - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086070.html
2. Great lecture by a world class mind on political violence. You will end this lecture with much to think about, I promise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vgl9S3hpbc&feature=player_embed
3. Regional and country-specific assessments of the global crisis by Nouriel Roubini's RGE Monitor - http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/256736/green_shoots_or_yellow_weeds
4. Not as big, not as small as we thought? Martin Wolf assesses how influential to world history the global economic crisis will be - http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/beb9b7e8-449f-11de-82d6-00144feabdc0.html