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- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department (2009-2011), is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
PRINCETON – The West and Iran are playing a dangerous game. In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 9th, 2012 No Comments »
- Mohammed Ayoob
Mohammed Ayoob is Professor of International Relations, Michigan State University, and Adjunct Scholar, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Turkey has over the past few weeks become the spearhead of a joint Western-Arab-Turkish policy aimed at forcing President Bashar al-Assad to cede power in Syria. This [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 7th, 2012 No Comments »
- Lee Byong-chul
Lee Byong-chul, formerly on the national-security planning staff for Presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, is a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace and Cooperation, Seoul.
SEOUL – The ascension to power of the pudgy 29-year-old Kim Jong-un in North Korea has grabbed headlines around the world, but the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 5th, 2012 No Comments »
- Andrew Sheng
Andrew Sheng, President of the Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong, and the Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, is a former Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.
HONG KONG – In March 2011, the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that hit Japan halted production of key [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 5th, 2012 No Comments »
- 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 protracted financial and economic crisis discredited first the American model of capitalism, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 5th, 2012 No Comments »
- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author, most recently, of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
HO CHI MINH CITY – Can an entire people go mad? Sometimes it certainly seems so.
Images of North Koreans in their hundreds of thousands howling with [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 5th, 2012 No Comments »
- Christopher Hill
Christopher R. Hill, former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and chief US negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009. He is now Dean of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 4th, 2012 No Comments »
- Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres is President of Israel.
JERUSALEM – In my nearly nine decades of life, I cannot recall a time in which the past was so irrelevant to policymaking. All of today’s significant developments went unpredicted by anyone. Experts studied the past, but, constrained by old paradigms, they could not [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
- Javier Solana
Javier Solana, a distinguished senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution is President of ESADEgeo. Previously he served as the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, and as Secretary General of NATO.
MADRID – Two days after Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s leader, died in a [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – India ended 2011 amid political chaos, as the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour, Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK), is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
CAIRO – “We want democracy, but [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 1st, 2012 No Comments »
- Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland, former Director General of the GATT and the WTO, is currently co-chair of the High-level Expert Group on Trade, set up by the UK, German, Turkish, and Indonesian governments to examine the world trading system.
LONDON – At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 1st, 2012 No Comments »
- Justin Yifu Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics at the World Bank, and the author of Demystifying the Chinese Economy.
WASHINGTON, DC – “The golden age of finance,” the economist Barry Eichengreen has said, “has now ended.” If that is true – and let us hope [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 31st, 2011 No Comments »
- George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute.
NEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 31st, 2011 No Comments »
- 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 – Someone recently quipped that the best thing about 2011 was that it was likely better than 2012. By the same token, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 30th, 2011 1 Comment »
- 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 – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 30th, 2011 No Comments »
- Zeljko Jovanovic
Zeljko Jovanovic is Director of the Open Society Roma Initiatives.
BUDAPEST – Today, millions of Europeans are afraid and frustrated as they face unemployment, loss of savings and pensions, radically reduced social benefits, and other economic hardships. Their fears are warranted, because the current financial crisis is undermining the very [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 29th, 2011 No Comments »
- Kemal Dervi?
Kemal Dervi? is Vice-President of the Brookings Institution in Washington and Advisor to the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University. He was Turkey’s Minister of Economic Affairs and is a former Executive Head of the United Nations Development Program.
WASHINGTON, DC/ISTANBUL – Almost a year has passed since revolution in [...]