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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in Economics. His latest book, Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, is now [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 8th, 2010 No Comments »
- Javier Solana
Javier Solana, the European Union’s former High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, and a former Secretary General of NATO, is President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 7th, 2010 No Comments »
- Heizo Takenaka
Heizo Takenaka was Minister of Economics, Minister of Financial Reform, and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi; he is currently Director of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 6th, 2010 No Comments »
- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Kenneth Weisbrode
Kenneth Weisbrode is a historian at the European University Institute, Florence.
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FLORENCE – Dean Acheson, US President Harry Truman’s Secretary of State, liked to quote a friend who said that being [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
- Hannah Koep
Hannah Koep is a Senior Africa Analyst at Control Risks, an international business risk consultancy.
LONDON – Central Africa has lately been attracting some unfamiliar attention. Discoveries of large mineral deposits [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
- Eric Chivian , Aaron Bernstein [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 1st, 2010 No Comments »
- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Who were those flag-waving, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 1st, 2010 No Comments »
- Philippe Douste-Blazy
Philippe Douste-Blazy, a former French foreign minister, is the UN Under Secretary-General in charge of Innovative Financing for Development.
PARIS – The global economic crisis has claimed many victims [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 30th, 2010 No Comments »
- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
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NEW YORK – In the 1992 United States presidential election, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 26th, 2010 No Comments »
- Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri, a former Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM – The imminent resumption in Washington of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 25th, 2010 No Comments »
- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 24th, 2010 No Comments »
- Chris Patten
Chris Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong and a former EU Commissioner for External Affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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TOULOUSE – Europe’s holiday month of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 24th, 2010 No Comments »
- Donna Dickenson
Donna Dickenson, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, was the 2006 winner of the International Spinoza Lens Award for contributions to public debate [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
- George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management.
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NEW YORK – The Roma have been persecuted across Europe for centuries. Now they face a form of discrimination unseen in Europe since [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 18th, 2010 No Comments »
- Luigi Zingales
Luigi Zingales is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and co-author, with Raghuram G. Rajan, of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.
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CHICAGO – [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 18th, 2010 No Comments »
- Yuriko Koike
Yuriko Koike, a former Japanese Minister of Defense and National Security Advisor, is a member of the opposition in Japan’s Diet.
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TOKYO – Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Asia may [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 18th, 2010 No Comments »
- Bennett Ramberg
Bennett Ramberg served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush Administration. He is the author of several books on international security.
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LOS ANGELES – A strange [...]