- Thomas de Maizière
Thomas de Maizière is Germany’s Interior Minister.

BERLIN – Islamist terrorism has in recent years become central to security policy in Germany and many other Western countries. [...]

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- Jamie F. Metzl
Jamie Metzl is Executive Vice President of the Asia Society and Project Director of the Asia Society Task Force on Afghanistan-Pakistan.

NEW YORK – The United States and its Afghan [...]

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- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman [...]

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- Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab is Director of the Community Media Network in Amman, Jordan and a former Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

RAMALLAH – Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly [...]

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- Anoop Singh
Anoop Singh is Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department.

WASHINGTON , DC – China has weathered the Great Recession well. The world now waits to see if [...]

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- Vartan Oskanian
Vartan Oskanian, Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 until April 2008, is the founder of the Yerevan-based Civilitas Foundation.
YEREVAN – Will Turkey’s current turmoil between [...]

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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of democracy and human rights at Bard College. His latest book Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, has just been [...]

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- Ibrahim Kalin
Ibrahim Kalin is chief policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

ANKARA – The exposure of the plan hatched by senior military officials – called “Operation Sledgehammer” [...]

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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 1997. He is the author [...]

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- 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 [...]

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- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, India’s foreign minister (1998-2002), finance minister (1995, 2002-2004), and minister of defense (2001-2002) is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI [...]

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- Simon Chesterman and Kishore Mahbubani
Simon [...]

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- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – Ever since [...]

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- Ronald Asmus
Ronald D. Asmus, a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, is executive director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the [...]

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- Emily Parker
Emily Parker, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations, is currently writing a book about democracy and the Internet.
NEW YORK – Google has been [...]

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- 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 [...]

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- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development [...]

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- Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of [...]

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