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Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
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…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
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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Mehdi Khalaji May 22, 2013

After Ahmadinejad

WASHINGTON, DC – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s preferred successor, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, will not be running in the June 14 ele…
Bernard Haykel May 14, 2013

Syria’s Sectarian Stalemate

PRINCETON – What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a p…
Volker Perthes May 7, 2013

The Changing Map of Middle East Power

BERLIN – The eruption of the Arab revolts in late 2010 and early 2011 put power relations among Middle Eastern countries in a state of flux,…
Shlomo Ben-Ami Mar. 1, 2013

Why Iran Won’t Budge

TEL AVIV – No one really believed that the latest round of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a bre…
Dante Caputo Feb. 12, 2013

Argentina’s Iranian Tango

BUENOS AIRES – A controversial agreement between Iran and Argentina to investigate jointly a terrorist attack against a Jewish organization …
Anne-Marie Slaughter Jan. 28, 2013

Obama’s Year of Iran

PRINCETON – As US President Barack Obama begins his second term, he will have to devote much of his attention to figuring out how to get Ame…
Richard N. Haass Jan. 14, 2013

The New Old Year

NEW YORK – Any look back at 2012 would necessarily focus on three parts of the world: the eurozone, with its seemingly endless financial unc…
Geoffrey Kemp, John Allen Gay Dec. 19, 2012

The Price of War with Iran

WASHINGTON, DC – One of the greatest challenges that US President Barack Obama will face in his second term is Iran’s pursuit of advanced nu…
Joschka Fischer Dec. 2, 2012

The New Middle East’s New Problems

BERLIN – When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a blo…
Shlomo Ben-Ami Nov. 5, 2012

Global Zero at Ground Zero

MADRID – Since its launch in December 2008, Global Zero, the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, has run up against some formidable c…

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