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Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Johann Hari - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - In the mosques across the city, I hear a fringe of young men talk dreamily of flocking to Afghanistan to "resist". Yet this whisper never has an immigrant accent. It shares my pronunciations, my cultural references, and my national anthem. Beneath the beards and the burqas, there is an English voice.

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To Catch a Tiger

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Fred Kaplan - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - Though it was only a one-day news story in the United States, a momentous event occurred last spring, with worldwide military significance. After 26 years of heavy fighting, the Sri Lankan government decisively defeated an ethnic insurgency, killing all of its top leadership, whose bodies were displayed on national television. Massive victory parades followed.

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North Korea blast is a test for U.S.

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Paul Carroll - May. 26 (Opinion) - ... it is important to focus on two things in the aftermath of the test. First, what does this mean for the threat that North Korea poses to international security? Second, what should our next moves be?

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Between Genghis and Caesar

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sptimes.ru - By Yulia Latynina - May. 22 (Opinion) - You may not have known it, but in terms of his biological progeny, Genghis Khan was the most successful man of all time. It is estimated that one in every 200 people is a descendant of the prolific 13th-century khan of the Mongol Empire. That means that his military strategy of killing and raping brought countless biological dividends for future generations

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Winning the Peace

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Michael Schaffer - May. 21 (Opinion) - After a quarter century of bloodshed and somewhere over 80,000 deaths, Sri Lanka's civil war didn't really settle anything. It began in 1983 in a flawed-but-functioning postcolonial democracy whose leaders never seemed quite up to the task of integrating different ethnicities into one nation. It apparently ended on Sunday, in a still-flawed, newly-swaggering postwar democracy where that basic task of integration remains even more elusive.

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The Poor Get Poorer

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Rana Foroohar - May. 20 (Opinion) - While Americans are worried about dips in their 401Ks, Asians are increasingly worried about more important things, like feeding their families, as the global recession continues to play out. I’m currently on my way to Asia (first Japan, then China and Hong Kong) with members of the Honolulu based East West Center, where I’m going to be studying the effects of the financial crisis here, and already, its clear that one major challenge is increased poverty.

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The St. Petersburg Times - Opinion - Islands Apart

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sptimes.ru - By Peter Rutland - May. 18 (Opinion) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin descended on Japan last week, accompanied by a dozen governors and more than 100 Russian business leaders. Yet the visit failed to break the impasse in Russian-Japanese relations over the four islands east of Hokkaido, which Russia seized in 1945. This means that the two countries are still without a peace treaty and an agreed mutual border 64 years after the end of World War II.

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What Burma Needs From President Barack Obama

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Desmond Tutu - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - there is another issue on which America's moral leadership is desperately needed, and here, it must be acknowledged, President Bush was on the side of the angels: the struggle for human rights and justice in Burma.

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The Nut Graph | Scaling the language barrier

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

thenutgraph.com - By Wong Chin Huat - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - The standard of English has deteriorated in Malaysia, over the past decade, while the English language is enjoying increasing importance in a globalising world. Taking both these factors into consideration, isn't the call to abolish [the policy of English for Teaching Mathematics and Science] and reinstate the old status quo irrational and irresponsible? I don't think so.

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Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's Trip To Asia

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Council on Foreign Relations - By Paul B. Stares - Feb. 18 (Interview) - he Japanese are clearly very happy that Secretary Clinton is beginning with her Asia trip with Japan. And they clearly are reassured that Japan still counts in Washington's calculus. Tell us what are the leading sort of issues that she's going to be bringing up with the Japanese and what she's looking to hear from them.

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Mrs. Clinton Goes to Asia

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Dan Blumenthal - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - In fashioning her Asia policy, Secretary Clinton has a chance to make a clean break with her predecessors, who tended to view every Asian challenge in isolation. The United States can begin to view Asia as a whole, with interconnected problems and multilateral solutions.

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YES! Magazine's Fran Korten on Her Friendship with Barack Obama's Mother

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Fran Korten, Amy Goodman - Jan. 26 (Interview) - Well, last week I had a chance to speak with Fran Korten. She’s the executive director of YES! Magazine. She joined me in the firehouse studio to talk for the first time about her friendship with Barack Obama’s mother, Ann Soetoro.

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Barack Obama, and America's place in the world

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Helena Cobban - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - Most Americans have been watching the presidential transition here in Washington very closely. But another, much broader political transition has also been accelerating in recent weeks: the shift from the US-dominated world we have lived in since 1989 to one in which global power has become significantly more diffuse, more networked, and more Asian.

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One Day in Bangkok

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Jarrett Wrisley - Dec. 04 (Opinion) - Some in the U.S. media have labeled Barack Obama the first celebrity politician. But those commentators have never been to a Thaksin rally.

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