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A Crisis in Two Narratives
By Raghuram Rajan CHICAGO: With the world’s industrial democracies in crisis, two competing…
China’s soft-power offensive in Taiwan
By Yuriko Koike TOKYO: China’s behavior during the recent presidential election in Taiwan…
An Israeli View: Abbas juggles initiatives while Israel takes none
By Yossi Alpher The Israeli-Palestinian peace process was dead well before the Arab…
New research may hold key to Indonesia’s church-building controversy
By Testriono JAKARTA: In Bogor, a city in Indonesia’s West Java province, the…
The Chancellor who played with fire
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be happy nowadays: her…
No escape from empire’s graveyard
By Brahma Chellaney NEW DELHI: With the stage set for secret talks in…
Virtual Arab-Israeli peace conference offers hope
By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM: Just days after long-time Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiators Yitzhak Molcho…
Obama’s Middle East malady
By Zaki Laïdi PARIS: No sooner did US President Barack Obama welcome home…