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How ASEAN Should Assert Itself Globally

Should Westerners abandon the use of business jacket and tie for the sake of global warming?

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The United States in Egypt: A Fully Hedged Position

How is Washington simultaneously pursuing democratization and a restoration of military rule in Egypt?

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The German Strategy on the Euro: A Pre-Summit Roadmap

How does Germany see its role, and what are its real intentions and specific plans, with regard to saving the euro?

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U.S. Health Care: An Exercise in Stalinist Industrial Economics?

Isn’t it time for the United States to find a more efficient economic model for managing health care?

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Italy’s Fateful Choice

Is Italy in danger of finding itself outside the umbrella of nations Germany and its partners are willing to support?

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France’s Epoch-Making Choice

Will Francois Hollande choose to make France like Germany or to make France like Italy?

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Bureaucracy as a Root of American Prosperity

Remember how the U.S. government blazed the trail of innovation, societal progress and modernization in the United States?

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The Editor and His Dog: A Tribute

What’s a writer to do when he’s looking for the next great idea or opening line?

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The United States and the EU: Capitalisms Compared

Which model of corporate governance is doing a better job of striking a balance between the needs of business and the need of society, the U.S.’s or the EU’s?

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Martin Luther and the Eurozone: Theology as an Economic Destiny?

Could Martin Luther’s life have provided a suitable rule of thumb to identify which countries should be in the eurozone and which should not?

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