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Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
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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Brahma Chellaney Jun. 19, 2013

Afghanistan’s Unavoidable Partition

NEW DELHI – The United States, still mired in a protracted war in Afghanistan that has exacted a staggering cost in blood and treasure, will…
Simon Chesterman Jun. 19, 2013

US Intelligence, Inc.

SINGAPORE – Among the stories and rumors prompted by Edward J. Snowden’s leaking of classified material – whistleblowing or treason, dependi…
Jaswant Singh Jun. 19, 2013

The Great War’s End in Syria

NEW DELHI – As the West begins to gear up for the centenary of the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Middle East is being convulsed as ne…
Mehdi Khalaji Jun. 19, 2013

The Rowhani Front

WASHINGTON, DC – On June 17, at his first press conference as Iran’s President-elect, Hassan Rowhani broke little new ground in the Islamic …
Daoud Kuttab Jun. 18, 2013

The New Arab Censors

AMMAN – The Internet has proved to be a powerful tool for overcoming media restrictions and censorship worldwide. But new restrictions on We…
Anu Bradford Jun. 18, 2013

Insuring Immigration

NEW YORK – Almost immediately after the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were revealed to be immigrants, opponents of immigration re…
Jorge G. Castañeda Jun. 18, 2013

Four Marijuana Moments

MEXICO CITY – Latin America and the United States have experienced what one could call a series of “marijuana moments” over the past few wee…
Johan P. Mackenbach Jun. 17, 2013

Only the Poor Die Young

ROTTERDAM – People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, occupation, or income) have shorter and…
Yannos Papantoniou Jun. 12, 2013

Bismarck versus Bismarck

ATHENS – The centrality of Germany to Europe and, more widely, to world affairs has been amply, and often bloodily, demonstrated over many c…
Sami Mahroum Jun. 11, 2013

Democracy in Arabia?

PARIS – In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the public’s trust alleviates pressure on the state, allowing it to funct…

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