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Is China overtaking America?
By Joseph Nye CAMBRIDGE: The twenty-first century is witnessing Asia’s return to what…
Breaking down barriers in the South Hebron Hills
By Michael Omer-Man WEST BANK/JAFFA: On an otherwise serene Saturday morning in late…
The Dragon and the Crescent: Chinese investment in the Arab world – The potential and the problems
By Richard Banks During my last visit to China, I had continuous meetings…
Why Gender Equality?
By Maha Ghalwash Egyptian activists celebrated International Women’s Day (8 March) by organizing…
Three paths for indebted democracies
By Raghuram Rajan CHICAGO: Democratic governments are not incentivized to take decisions that…
War, Debt, and Democracy
By John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth NEW YORK: As the United States takes…
Islam and/in the West
By Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu JEDDAH: The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt provide examples…
Can radiation be good for you?
By Henry Miller STANFORD: The earthquake and tsunami-related problems at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi…