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The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…
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The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Jaswant Singh

The Road to Asian Unity

NEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the bac…

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David Miliband May 23, 2013

Britain, Ireland, and Europe

Editor’s Note: The following is an edited version of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation Annual Lecture, delivered in Dublin on M…
Liah Greenfeld May 17, 2013

Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism

BOSTON – If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer …
Aryeh Neier May 9, 2013

Less of an Ass

PARIS – “If the law supposes that,” says Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, “the law is a ass – a idiot.” For decades, Britain’s libel laws had bee…
John Bruton May 7, 2013

Europe’s National Wild Cards

DUBLIN – Europe’s needs and Europeans’ desires are at odds. At a time when strong, coordinated action is needed to stave off financial colla…
Robert Skidelsky Apr. 17, 2013

Thatcherism’s Bellicose Soul

LONDON – Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s greatest twentieth-century peacetime prime minister. In the 1980’s, the near-simultaneous crisis of…
Chris Patten Apr. 11, 2013

The Human Thatcher

LONDON – It is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher – mundane but revealing – from the sweeping judgments…
Yuliya Tymoshenko Apr. 9, 2013

The Iron Lady as Liberator

KHARKIV, UKRAINE – Prison is always a place of mourning. But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in this place is grimly appropria…
Harold James Apr. 8, 2013

Margaret Thatcher’s Lessons for Europe

PRINCETON – Margaret Thatcher was much more respected outside Britain than she was in her own country. In the United States, but also in Cen…
Ian Buruma Feb. 3, 2013

Does Europe Need Britain?

NEW YORK – Many people in the United Kingdom believe that their country can do perfectly well outside the European Union. Members of the UK …
Harold James Jan. 25, 2013

Brexit, Voice, and Loyalty

PRINCETON – Albert Hirschman, who died at the end of last year, was a great economist with a gift for producing striking insights by focusin…

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