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Germany’s will to compromise
By Michael Bolle and Cordelia Friesendorf BERLIN: “Confront, then compromise” could well become…
Hamas and the social Islamization of Gaza
By Mkhaimar Abusada GAZA CITY: The Gaza Strip was known as a very…
How Turkey is changing
By Soner Cagaptay, Hale Arifagaoglu and Cansin Ersoz WASHINGTON, DC: The Justice and…
Austerity politics, then and now
By Harold James PRINCETON: Britain’s policy of fiscal consolidation, recently announced by Chancellor…
The opportunity in Seoul
By Yoon Young-kwan SEOUL: Hubris usually gives birth to disaster. The root cause…
Diplomacy’s darkest hours
By Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID: Diplomacy is not having its finest hour nowadays.…
Indonesia’s democratic Islam
By Alfred Stepan and Jeremy Menchik NEW YORK: The visit by “Barry Obama,”…
A global interfaith initiative to change the world
By Rahim Kanani CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: More than two-thirds of the world’s population —…
How to negotiate with the Taliban
By Qamar-ul Huda WASHINGTON, DC: The war against the Taliban is passing the…