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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…
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 …
Robert Skidelsky

The Rise of the Robots

LONDON – What impact will automation – the so-called “rise of the robots” – have on wages and employment over the coming decades? Nowadays, …
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…

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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…
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 …
Minghao Zhao Jun. 7, 2013

“Mao-Nixon” 2.0

BEIJING – The “Sunnylands summit,” which brings together Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama at a California estate t…
Joseph S. Nye Jun. 5, 2013

The Right Stuff in Foreign Policy

CAMBRIDGE – Some critics complain that US President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to “bend the arc of hi…
Shlomo Ben-Ami Jun. 5, 2013

Is the US Losing Latin America?

MADRID – It is a mantra increasingly heard around the world: US power is in decline. And nowhere does this seem truer than in Latin America.…
Joschka Fischer May 30, 2013

Missing America

BERLIN – Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, once described the United States as the “indispensable nation.” Current devel…
Gareth Evans May 29, 2013

A Talking Cure for Syria

LONDON – The proposal by the United States and Russia to hold a diplomatic conference to end the carnage in Syria deserves a less skeptical …
Anne-Marie Slaughter May 28, 2013

The Syria Lessons

PRINCETON – As the United States and Russia try to broker a conference that can bring the various sides in the Syrian conflict to the negoti…
Kishore Mahbubani May 24, 2013

America’s Blinders

SINGAPORE – The time has come to think the unthinkable: the era of American dominance in international affairs may well be coming to an end.…

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