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    <title>In Defense of Cyprus</title>
    <description><![CDATA[BERLIN – Greece is said not to have one. Cyprus does, but needs to change it. Luxembourg’s is similar to Cyprus’s, but apparently it is just fine. Malta’s, however, requires more thought. I am, of course, referring to countries’ “business model,” which all sovereign states have lately been deemed to have. Germany, for example, is supposedly an export country.In addition to Cyprus’s close ties to G&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Frank Schäffler</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Eurozone’s Uncertainty Principle</title>
    <description><![CDATA[TILBURG – If there is one thing that financial markets detest, it is prolonged uncertainty. But, since the eurozone crisis began, policymaking in the monetary union has become increasingly unpredictable. Early private-sector involvement in supporting the troubled eurozone countries was unexpected. The recent deal to save Cyprus, which includes forced losses on large depositors, was similarly surpr&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Sylvester Eijffinger, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Dialogue and the Deep Blue Sea</title>
    <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – A Chinese patrol vessel’s attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat last week is just the latest incident demonstrating Asia’s urgent need to act swiftly, together with the United States, to develop a mechanism for managing territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. Neither side can afford to let Asia – a driving force of the global economy – be derailed by an escalation of the ma&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Andrew Billo</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Italy’s Greek Tragedy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[LONDON – The euro crisis is not yet over. After months of relative calm in the eurozone, financial markets are again gripped by uncertainty, owing to political instability in Italy and the banking crisis in Cyprus. Are the eurozone’s struggles finally becoming too much to bear?Last month’s election plunged Italy into political deadlock. While the center-left coalition, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, w&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 01:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Paola Subacchi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Age of Macroinvestment</title>
    <description><![CDATA[BEIJING – South African President Jacob Zuma’s warning to Western corporations to change their neocolonial attitudes toward Africa or risk losing out to China and other developing economies will resonate powerfully this week, as South Africa hosts Brazil, Russia, India, and China at the fifth BRICS summit. But Zuma’s stance reflects the rise of cross-border “macroinvestment,” a phenomenon that is &#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Simon Zadek</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>America’s Innovation by Design</title>
    <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – Born at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the United States has creativity and invention written into its DNA. By emphasizing economic freedom and individual achievement, the US has fostered a strong entrepreneurial culture. And, by marketing cutting-edge technologies, financing their development, and purchasing them, Americans consistently transform innovation into economic growth&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Keith Roberts</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Can NASA Stop Global Warming?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – In 1961, President John F. Kennedy asserted that the United States “should commit itself to achieving the goal…of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth,” by the end of the decade. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration accepted the challenge. From 1969 to 1972, NASA’s Apollo program achieved six manned landings on the moon – missions that expanded hum&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Jim Hartung</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Putting Asia's Gini Back in its Bottle</title>
    <description><![CDATA[KLONG LUANG, THAILAND – Activists across Asia, inspired partly by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, have been highlighting what they view as a widening divide between the haves and the have-nots, those with connections and those without. But what if inequality continued to rise in Asia, and no one noticed? Would the widening gap be as inconsequential as the proverbial tree that&#x2026;]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/online-commentary/the-misplaced-focus-on-asia-s-income-inequality-by-curtis-s--chin</comments>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Curtis S. Chin</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Who Should Control Europe’s Media?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[FLORENCE – Last month, the independent High-Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism (of which I was a part) presented to the European Commission its recommendations for the protection, support, and promotion of media pluralism and freedom in Europe. Since its release, the report has attracted considerable attention – but not the kind for which the group had hoped. Ironically, the way in which s&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Miguel P. Maduro</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>South Korea’s Changing Security Paradigm</title>
    <description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE – Since the Korean War ended, the divided Korean Peninsula has stood at the center of complex power constellations in Northeast Asia involving the United States, Russia, China, and Japan. But, while South Korea’s geostrategic location and historical legacy – together with the enduring nationalist sentiments, alliance politics, territorial disputes, and superpower rivalries at play throug&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Michael Raska</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>An Era of Currency Wars?</title>
    <description><![CDATA[LONDON – Once again, the risk of “currency wars” has been invoked by a leading policymaker. The term was coined in 2010 by Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, to criticize successive rounds of so-called quantitative easing by advanced countries’ central banks, which sent capital fleeing to developing countries in search of higher yields, driving up these countries’ exchange rates in the proc&#x2026;]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/online-commentary/central-banks--independence-and-the-threat-of-competitive-devaluations-by-paola-subacchi</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Paola Subacchi</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>David Cameron’s European Dilemma</title>
    <description><![CDATA[PARIS – As the euro crisis has widened the gap between the 17 eurozone countries and the European Union’s other ten members, the debate around a “multi-speed Europe,” in which countries pursue deeper integration at different rates, has been reinvigorated. This issue will be at the core of a speech by British Prime Minister David Cameron (scheduled for January 18, but postponed in view of the hosta&#x2026;]]></description>
	<comments>http://www.project-syndicate.org/online-commentary/a-new-european-status-for-the-uk-by-thierry-chopin-and-jean-fran-ois-jamet</comments>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Thierry Chopin, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Syrian Game Changer</title>
    <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, DC – Reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government may be preparing chemical weapons for deployment, presumably against its citizens or neighbors, have triggered alarm bells worldwide, and thrust Syria’s civil war into a new, more dangerous phase. But there is significant diplomatic potential in this development, which global leaders have barely begun to realize.To be sure&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>F. Stephen Larrabee, et al. </dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Chinese Market Mystery</title>
    <description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI/NEW YORK – China’s economy is showing strong signs of recovery, with fourth-quarter data indicating a rebound across all sectors. But, while the country’s burgeoning recovery recently lifted consumer sentiment to a five-month high, the country’s stock-market performance has remained weak.Indeed, in late November – after a year of accommodative measures and mini-stimulus policies – the Sha&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Dan Steinbock</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Russia’s Foreign Friends</title>
    <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK – For the last nine years, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hosted the Valdai International Discussion Club, devoting time and attention to leading Russia experts from around the world. Putin’s interest in these discussions suggests that he is open to alternative perspectives about Russia’s development and global role. But his government’s position toward noncommercial institutions w&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 23:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Deana Arsenian</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>Sustainable Leadership</title>
    <description><![CDATA[CANBERRA – Last September, at the European Forum on New Ideas, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish President Lech Walesa, and former West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher participated in a panel discussion (of which I was a part) on Europe’s response to climate change and global development prospects more broadly. By ending the Cold War, democratizing Poland, and&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Robert Costanza</dc:creator>
	
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    <title>The Carbon Cliff</title>
    <description><![CDATA[CAPE TOWN – We are perched on the edge of a precipice: a devastating overheating of the planet caused by fossil-fuel use. The implications of stepping into the abyss are far more serious than the consequences of the “fiscal cliff” confronting American policymakers, or of the recession stalking Europe. This week, at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Qatar, global leaders must a&#x2026;]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator>Simon Zadek</dc:creator>
	
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    <description><![CDATA[ROME – Late last month, Brussels was rocked by the surprise resignation of European Union Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner John Dalli over his alleged involvement in a tobacco bribery scandal. Dalli, the first individual EU commissioner to be forced to resign, has professed his innocence and even vowed to sue the European Commission, intensifying a dispute between the Maltese politician and&#x2026;]]></description>
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