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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)

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- Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide.
NEWPORT BEACH – The sense of uncertainty prevailing in the West is palpable, and rightly so. People are worried about their futures, with a record number now fearing that their children may end up worse [...]

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- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, is the author of Asian Juggernaut and the newly released Water: Asia’s New Battleground.
NEW DELHI – Following the death of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, Libya’s interim government announced the “liberation” of the country. It also declared that a [...]

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- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
ISLAMABAD – The leaders of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation met last week in the Maldives for their [...]

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- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, is an Indian MP and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November [...]

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- Sanjaya Baru
Sanjaya Baru is Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), and the author of The Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Performance.
NEW DELHI – At their recent summit in Cannes, the G-20 shelved, if not buried, the World Trade Organization’s moribund Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations. [...]

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- Benigno S. Aquino
Benigno S. Aquino is President of the Philippines.
MANILA – In 1980, my father arrived in the United States to undergo a heart bypass, due to the rigors of his imprisonment by the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. The dictatorship offered him a reprieve, but, true to its nature, one dependent [...]

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- Mitchell A. Orenstein
Mitchell A. Orenstein is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC – With America’s Republican presidential candidates lining up to declare their fealty to a flat tax – a system of personal-income taxation that assesses a single rate for all – [...]

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- Vivek Maru
Vivek Maru is CEO of Namati, a new international organization dedicated to legal empowerment, supported by the British and Australian governments, the Open Society Institute, and the United Nations Development Program.
NEW DELHI – Inspired by Anna Hazare’s hunger strike, thousands of people gathered at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi [...]

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- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – As if the economic ramifications of a full-blown Greek default were not terrifying enough, the political consequences could be far worse. A chaotic eurozone breakup [...]

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- Staffan de Mistura
Staffan de Mistura is the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Afghanistan and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
KABUL – “The Taliban come to any house they please, by force. Then they fire from that house, and then ISAF and the Afghan National [...]

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- Jody Williams and Desmond Tutu
Jody Williams, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative. Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
CAPE TOWN – On Sunday, November 6, thousands of people encircled the White House as part of the ongoing effort [...]

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- Javier Solana and Ángel Saz-Carranza
Javier Solana, former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Common Security Policy of the European Union and former Secretary General of NATO, is a distinguished Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and President of the ESADEgeo Center. Ángel Saz-Carranza is Coordinator of ESADEgeo.
MADRID – This month, [...]

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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Many would say that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi got what he deserved. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The Libyan tyrant happily allowed his opponents, or [...]

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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, a Nobel laureate in economics, and the author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.
NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become [...]

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- Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser was three times Prime Minister of Australia.
MELBOURNE – Last weekend, representatives of 54 countries, mostly heads of government, attended the bi-annual Commonwealth Meeting. High on the agenda was a report by the Eminent Persons Group (EPG), established to reinvigorate the Commonwealth, strengthen its Secretariat, and transform its [...]

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- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – The alternatives for Europe’s currency, the euro, seem increasingly limited to a desperate [...]

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- Ruti Teitel
Ruti Teitel, a professor of international law at New York Law School and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, is the author of Humanity’s Law.
NEW YORK – Barack Obama has promised to send a group of 100 armed United States military personnel to Uganda – a high-powered [...]

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