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The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe 15 years ago brought vast and positive democratic changes. But in 2006, after more t…

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Regardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining intensity. Pa…

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Serbia -- long castigated as the land whose late president, Slobodan Milošević, launched a genocide in Yugoslavia -- is not …

The realization in the United States that the war in Iraq has been lost is perhaps the most momentous fact of international politics in 2006…

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For a few hundred years, when science and mathematics were enjoying a period of great invention, one region of the world stood out. Masters …

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China’s government finally appears to be acknowledging the urgent challenges presented by the country’s aging population. On December 12, it…

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Amidst all the headlines about the Democrats gaining control of the United States Congress in the November elections, one big election resul…

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Though triggered by the need to devise an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire, the Iraq Study Group’s grim report is a devastating indictm…

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When the Soviet Union collapsed, many predicted the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Yet a few weeks ago, NATO held its…