The nation-state reborn
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE: One of our era’s foundational myths is that globalization…
Europe’s Tobin tax distraction
By Barry Eichengreen CAPE TOWN: At last, European leaders have revealed their top-secret…
A PALESTINIAN VIEW: Arab Spring and peace process: The goal is democratization
By Ghassan Khatib The relationship between the ongoing uprisings and revolutions in the…
Why has Jordan succeeded where others failed?
By Oraib Al-Rantawi In Jordan's view, the creation of an independent and viable…
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…