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The World in Words
Although terms like “globalization” are invoked regularly by political leaders, public discussion about their meaning and the values they imply is mostly unsystematic and uncoordinated. Countries with common interests and concerns too often talk past each other.
That need not be so. Project Syndicate’s weekly The World in Words commentaries inform general audiences around the world of the best and most influential ideas in politics, economics, and society. They establish a vehicle for broadening debate and exchanging ideas between East and West, North and South. They offer a unique framework within which newspapers can provide their readers with a deeper understanding of current developments in their own as well as distant societies.
Project Syndicate’s weekly commentaries are written by some of the most distinguished commentators, statesmen, and academics from around the world. Among the contributors have been former Czech President Vaclav Havel, EU High Representative , former British prime minister Tony Blair, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, French minister of finance Christine Lagarde; Nobel laureates Gary Becker and P.K. Pachauri, financier George Soros; and strategic thinkers such as Germany’s Christoph Bertram, France’s Gilles Andréani, former Vice Admiral of Japan’s Defense Forces, Hideaki Kaneda, and the Egyptian dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
The topics covered in this series are as eclectic as the authors who contribute: Dominique Strauss-Khan on the financial crisis; Richard Holbrooke on Obama’s foreign policy, Fidel Ramos on Asian security, Yuliya Tymoshenko on energy disputes between Russia and Ukraine. From Die Welt in Germany to La Nacion in Argentina, from Le Figaro in France to Southern Metropolis Daily in China, prestigious newspapers everywhere subscribe to Project Syndicate’s exclusive weekly commentaries. They give their readers access to the broadest spectrum of opinion and allow them to participate in an international conversation on the key issues of our time.
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