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12-16-03   HOWARD DEAN: CAPTURE OF SADDAM HAS NOT MADE AMERICA SAFER
     
12-09-03   RA JONG-YIL: COLD ACCOUNTING OF ITS OWN INTERESTS WILL LEAD NORTH KOREA TO DISARM
     
12-09-13   JEONG SE HYUN: NORTH KOREA'S NEW MODEL-VIETNAM
     
12-02-03   KOFI ANNAN: A SAFER WORLD -- WORKING TOGETHER
     
11-20-03   BERNARD-HENRI LEVY: CENTER OF ISLAMIST FUNDAMENTALISM IS MOVING FROM ARABIA TO ASIA
     
11-11-03   RA JONG YIL: TIME TO END KOREA'S 'CEASAREAN' PRESIDENCY
     
11-04-03   BORIS BEREZOVSKY: WITH ARREST OF KHODORKOVSKY, PUTIN RESTORES SOVIET-STYLE POWER
     
10-23-03   SHINTARO ISHIHARA: ONLY SANCTIONS WILL FORCE NORTH KOREA TO DISARM; JAPAN NEEDS ITS OWN MISSILE SHIELD
     
10-22-03   YASUHIRO NAKASONE: NORTH KOREA WILL DISARM WITHIN TWO YEARS
     
10-14-03   CAL THOMAS: SHARON: ISRAEL WILL KEEP THE SECURITY FENCE
     
10-13-03   MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: MADELEINE'S MAXIM: OVERWHELMING U.S. FORCE SHOULD ONLY BE USED WITH OVERWHELMING PUBLIC AND ALLIED SUPPORT
     
10-09-03   MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: PUTIN WILL RATIFY KYOTO PROTOCOL; LET'S PREEMPT GLOBAL WARMING
     
10-08-03   JERRY BROWN: SCHWARZENEGGER VICTORY WILL CREATE SOCIAL POLARIZATION IN CALIFORNIA
     
09-30-03   RAMI KHOURI: IS THE ARAB REFORM CHORUS SERIOUS OR FRAUDULENT?
     
09-18-03   NABIL SHAATH: NEW PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT WILL BE FORMED WITH AHMED KOREI AS PRIME MINISTER; ARAFAT NOT SAFE, DESPITE U.S. ASSURANCES
     
09-16-03   SHIMON PERES: IN DEFENSE OF OSLO 10 YEARS LATER: ARAFAT MAY HAVE FAILED, BUT OSLO HASN’T
     
09-15-03   JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI: DESPITE ATTACKS, JAPAN WILL SEND FORCES TO IRAQ; PYONGYANG DECLARATION IS NOT DEAD; REFORM WILL REMAIN AGENDA OF MY NEXT TERM
     
09-08-03   ERNESTO ZEDILLO: WILL CANCUN BE ANOTHER SEATTLE?
     
09-02-03   GEN. WESLEY CLARK: U.S. WAR IN IRAQ IS STRATEGIC BLUNDER
     
08-28-03   HANAN ASHRAWI: I FEAR CIVIL WAR AMONG PALESTINIANS
     
08-25-03   RICHARD HOLBROOKE: THE U.N. NEEDS ITS OWN MULTINATIONAL SECURITY FORCE IN IRAQ
     
08-19-03   JAMES WOOLSEY: WHAT INTELLIGENCE CRISIS? PREPARE FOR WAR WITH NORTH KOREA
     
08-19-03   GREGORY TREVERTON: INTELLIGENCE: THE ACHILLES' HEEL OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE
     
08-11-03   LESTER R. BROWN: CHINA LOSING WAR WITH ADVANCING DESERTS
     
07-18-03   WILLIAM PERRY: NORTH KOREA NUKES ARE NOW AN IMMINENT THREAT; BUSH REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH PYONGYANG DIRECTLY CAUSES PERIL
     
07-18-03   GRAHAM FULLER: RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK IN IRAQ
     
07-15-03   PAUL WOLFOWITZ: SADDAM ISN'T DRACULA -- HE WON'T BE BACK; DESPITE TROUBLES, U.S. REGARDED AS LIBERATOR
     
06-30-03   PERVEZ MUSHARRAF: ENLIGHTENED MODERATION IS BEST COURSE TO FIGHT TERROR; U.S. SHOULD REDUCE VISIBILITY IN IRAQ; PAKISTAN READY FOR DIALOGUE WITH INDIA
     
06-19-03   REZA PAHLAVI: STUDENT UNREST IN IRAN SHOWS REFORM IS AT DEAD END; NOW IS THE TIME FOR REGIME CHANGE
     
06-17-03   CONDOLEEZZA RICE: ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND IRAN
     
06-10-03   JEAN-MARIE GUEHENNO:PREEMPTING GENOCIDE IN CONGO
     
06-02-03   ROBIN COOK: WHERE ARE SADDAM’S MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS?
     
05-27-03   KINGSLEY CHIEDU MOGHALU: THE OTHER WAR: FIGHTING GLOBAL PANDEMICS
     
05-15-03   SHIMON PERES: A TWO WAY ROAD MAP
     
05-12-03   NABIL SHAATH: POWELL SAYS BUSH PROMISES TO INVEST POLITICAL CAPITAL OF IRAQ VICTORY IN A PALESTINIAN STATE
     
05-12-03   JEANE KIRKPATRICK: ABSENCE OF STANDARDS LETS RIGHTS ABUSERS RUN U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL
     
04-29-03   RA JONG-YIL: DESPITE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR CLAIMS ENGAGEMENT IS STILL BEST POLICY
     
04-25-03   WEI JINGSHENG: IS SARS CHINA'S CHERNOBYL?
     
04-21-03   EKEUS: SMALL QUANTITY OF WEAPONS, BUT HIGH QUALITY FACTORIES WILL BE FOUND IN IRAQ; SEARCH FOR MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS IN IRAQ NEEDS AT LEAST ONE YEAR.
     
04-09-03   POWELL: VITAL U.N. ROLE IS NOT A CENTRAL ONE
     
04-08-03   SURROI: KOSOVO EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS U.N. ROLE BUT NOT U.N. RULE
     
04-07-03   PATTEN, LAMY: TRANSATLANTIC APPEAL: PUT AWAY THE MEGAPHONES
     
04-07-03   GRASS: THE MORAL DECLINE OF A SUPERPOWER
     
04-03-03   WOOLSEY: THIS IS WORLD WAR IV
     
04-01-03   HAQQANI: MUSLIM MODERATION FIRST CASUALTY OF 'SHOCK AND AWE'
     
03-31-03   MAKIYA: THE FEDAYEEN SADDAM KEEP SHIA INTIFADA IN CHECK
     
03-26-03   BOUTROS-GHALI: U.S. WAR IN IRAQ IS ILLEGAL
     
03-25-03   GARDELS: ANTI-AMERICANISM AND WORLD ORDER
     
03-24-03   DANIEL YERGIN: OIL -- IRAQ AND AFTER
     
03-20-03   CLARK: BUSH PREEMPTIVE STRIKE DOES NOT MEET TEST OF IMMINENT DANGER
     
03-18-03   DJINDJIC: PHILOSOPHER WHO DID NOT RESPECT THE LAW OF PHYSICS
     
03-18-03   SHEIK AHMED ZAKI YAMANI: 'SADDAM WANTS TO DIE IN IRAQ'’; 'OIL DRIVES WAR'
     
03-10-03   LUKIN: IS THE UNITED STATES A GANGSTER OR POLICEMAN?; U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT IS NOT THE WORLD GOVERNMENT
     
03-06-03   ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL: IN EVENT OF WAR, BUSH SHOULD BE DECLARED 'CRIMINAL AGAINST HUMANITY'
     
02-26-03   CONDOLEEZZA RICE: U.N. DISUNITY UNDERCUTS CHANCE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF IRAQ CRISIS; 'UNITED STATES HAS NO DESIRE TO BE AN OCCUPYING POWER'
     
02-25-03   PAUL KENNEDY: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE IRAQ CRISIS
     
02-24-03   SHIMON PERES, EDWARD SAID: THREE PILLARS OF PEACE: BORDERS, EFFECTIVE PALESTINIAN GOVERNANCE, AN END TO SETTLEMENTS
     
02-24-03   NORMAN MAILER: WORLD EMPIRE: THE SUBTEXT OF WAR WITH IRAQ
     
02-18-03   ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: IRAQ AND U.S. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
     
02-11-03   LUIZ INACIO "LULA" DA SILVA: BRAZIL'S NEW FOREIGN POLICY: FROM FREE CAPITAL FLOWS TO REGIONAL INTEGRATION
     
02-10-03   DOMINGO CAVALLO: ARGENTINE DEFAULT A LESSON FOR BRAZIL
     
02-10-03   GRAHAM E. FULLER: 'OLD EUROPE' -- OR 'OLD AMERICA'?
     
02-04-03   ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE OLD EUROPE: A DIALOGUE WITH BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
     
02-04-03   VETON SURROI: MILOSEVIC AND SADDAM: ONLY WHEN BOMBS FALL DO TYRANTS TOPPLE
     
01-29-03   MICHAEL WALZER: AGAINST THE WAR
     
01-27-03  

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN: UNITED NATIONS MUST DECIDE ON WAR WITH IRAQ, NOT UNITED STATES; EUROPEAN UNION SHOULD BE ABOUT VALUES, NOT BORDERS
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MOHAMAD MAHATHIR: TURKEY'S SECULARISM IS NOT ANSWER FOR ISLAMIC STATES

     
01-23-03   LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON: UNCERTAINTY OVER WAR DAMPENS GLOBAL ECONOMY
     
01-14-03   JAMES C. O'BRIEN: REGIME CHANGE IS POSSIBLE IN IRAQ WITHOUT WAR
     
01-09-03   MADELEINE ALBRIGHT:BUSH HAS PRIORITIES BACKWARD: NORTH KOREA IS A GREATER THREAT THAN IRAQ
     
12-16-02   RICHARD PERLE: IS THE UNITED NATIONS THE ONLY INSTITUTION THAT CAN LEGITIMIZE FORCE?
     
12-16-02   WILLIAM J. CLINTON: UNITED STATES SHOULD LEAD, NOT DOMINATE
     
12-09-02   JAMES WOOLSEY: IRAQI ARMS DECLARATION A CHARADE; TEST FOR HANS BLIX IS WHETHER HE WILL TAKE SCIENTISTS OUT OF IRAQ
     
12-02-02   SONIA GANDHI: CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE IN THE AGE OF TERRORISM: THE EXAMPLE OF INDIA
     
11-22-02   WOLE SOYINKA: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
     
11-18-02   SHARIF ALI: FOR SADDAM, TO DISARM IS TO GIVE UP POWER; IN INEVITABLE WAR, ARMY WILL NOT FIGHT FOR SADDAM
     
11-13-02   MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: PUTIN SEEKS A POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR CHECHNYA BUT WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS
     
11-12-02   BORIS BEREZOVSKY: ZAKAYEV IS NOT A TERRORIST BUT A MAN OF PEACE; MOSCOW SHOULD NEGOTIATE
     
11-11-02   ORHAN PAMUK: SOFT ISALM TAKES OVER IN TURKEY
     
11-11-02   VALERY GISCARD D'ESTAING: TURKEY IS NOT PART OF EUROPE
     
11-08-02   EHUD BARAK: A CRUCIAL RESOLUTION IN THE UNITED NATIONS
     
11-07-02   SHIMON PERES: WHERE ISRAEL GOES FROM HERE: A NEW MIDDLE EAST OR A NUCLEAR MIDDLE EAST?
     
11-04-02   PETER BOUCKAERT: IRAQ ATTACK COULD REPEAT KOSOVO TRAGEDY: U.S. AIR POWER CAN DO LITTLE TO PROTECT CIVILIANS ON THE GROUND FROM RETRIBUTION BY SADDAM
     
10-31-02   BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI: AMERICAN UNILATERALISM UNDERMINES NATIONAL DEMOCRACY; BUT NELSON MANDELA IS WRONG TO CALL U.S. A THREAT TO PEACE
     
10-22-02   WEI JINGSHENG: JIANG'S VISIT TO BUSH RANCH CONFUSES AMERICA'S FRIENDS
     
10-18-02   RAMOS-HORTA:TERRORISTS STRIKE AT PEACEFUL BALI
     
10-18-02   ABDURRAHMAN WAHID: TOLERANT INDONESIAN MUSLIM MAJORITY DOESN'T SUPPORT TERRORISTS; BUT ELEMENTS IN MILITARY AND GOVERNMENT FIND ISLAMIC RADICALS USEFUL FOR KEEPING POWER
     
10-16-02   SEBASTIAN EDWARDS: WILL LATIN AMERICA TAKE THE POPULIST PATH AS THE ELECTION OF LULA LOOMS?
     
10-14-02   LUIS INACIO DA SILVA: LULA TO IMF: BRAZIL WANTS AUTONOMY TO DO WHAT IT MUST DOMESTICALLY
     
10-07-02   GEN. WESLEY CLARK: FIGHTING WITH IRAQ COULD BE OVER IN TWO WEEKS; AMERICA CAN'T BE 'NEW ROME' WITH VOLUNTEER ARMY
     
10-03-02   SCOTT RITTER: IRAQ PRESIDENTIAL PALACE ISSUE IS PRODUCT OF AMERICAN POLITICS, NOT INTELLIGENCE FINDINGS
     
09-23-02   RICHARD HOLBROOKE: BUSH STRIKE-FIRST POLICY NOT IN U.S. INTEREST; U.S.-GERMAN RELATIONS NOT 'POISONED' BUT DEEPLY DAMAGED BY PERSONAL BUSH-SCHROEDER ANIMOSITY
     
09-19-02   HANS A. BETHE AND HENRY BETHE: BY MAKING IRAQ THE ENEMY, BUSH IS ACTING IN OUTMODED COLD WAR MODE
     
09-09-02   CHRIS PATTEN: EUROPE MUST HAVE CONVINCING EVIDENCE TO JOIN IRAQ ATTACK; DEALING WITH TERRORISM SHOULD NOT BE LINKED TO DEALING WITH SADDAM
     
09-06-02   CONDI RICE: BUSH OPEN TO U.N. ACTION ON IRAQ
     
09-05-02   ROLF EKEUS: NEW IRAQ INSPECTIONS BY U.N. CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IF THE SECURITY COUNCIL IS UNITED AND BACKED UP BY MILITARY FORCE
     
08-29-02   GRAHAM FULLER: POST-SEPT. 11 U.S. POLICY SOWS SEEDS OF GLOBAL BACKLASH
     
08-21-02   GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A FAIR DEAL FOR THE WORLD'S POOR
     
08-20-02   IAN JOHNSON: WATER AND THE JOHANNESBURG SUMMIT: PUTTING WORDS INTO ACTION
     
08-19-02   BENAZIR BHUTTO: DEMOCRACY IS BETTER WAY TO FIGHT TERRORISTS AND AVOID WAR WITH INDIA; I WILL RETURN TO PAKISTAN TO FIGHT THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
     
08-16-02   FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: THE WEST MAY BE CRACKING: AMERICA VS. THE REST
     
08-13-02   JAMES WOOLSEY: SEPT. 11 ONE YEAR LATER: IRAQ AND THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE WAR ON TERROR
     
08-01-02   KARIM RASLAN: SOUTHEAST ASIA -- THE MODERNIST MUSLIM TEMPLATE
     
07-24-02  

CARLOS FUENTES: THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: THE EMPIRE OF LAW VS. THE UNITED STATES

     
07-16-02   FRANCIS FUKUYAMA: IN DEFENSE OF NATURE, HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN
     
07-10-02   LESTER THUROW: CRONY CAPITALISM, AMERICAN-STYLE
     
06-25-02   NABIL SHAATH: THE BUSH MIDDLE EAST PLAN: RIGHT MUSIC, WRONG LYRICS
     
06-17-02   GORE VIDAL: THE NEW WAR ON FREEDOM
     
06-17-02   MARY ROBINSON: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SHADOW OF SEPTEMBER 11
     
06-10-02   MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: STORING INSTEAD OF DESTROYING WARHEAD WILL SPUR PROLIEFRATION
     
06-06-02   ZALMAY KHALILZAD: WITH AFGHAN LOYA JIRGA, POLITICAL STABILITY IS WITHIN REACH; TASK AHEAD IS ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION
     
06-04-02   WANG JISI: AMERICA: ROGUE SUPERPOWER, BUT NEEDED ECONOMIC ENGINE
     
05-28-02   LORD (DAVID) OWEN: NEW NATO SHOULD DEPLOY TROOPS IN MIDDLE EAST
     
05-23-02   BENAZIR BHUTTO: THE SMELL OF WAR
     
05-21-02   ALVARO VARGAS LLOSA: IN LATIN AMERICA, DEMOCRACY IS LOSING LEGITIMACY --ALL OVER AGAIN
     
05-20-02   RICARDO ALARCON: CARTER VISIT WAS HISTORIC; BUSH INITIATIVE LAUGHABLE -- AND WHAT ABOUT ANTI-CUBAN TERRORISTS
     
05-15-02   SADAKO OGATA: CHINA IN BREACH OF REFUGEE TREATY BY SEIZING NORTH KOREAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS
     
05-13-02   NITIN DESAI: NEITHER 'DAVOS MAN' NOR 'PORTO ALEGRE PROTESTER': MEET THE JO'BURG ACTIVIST
     
05-02-02   JOSCHKA FISCHER: FOR MIDEAST PEACE, START WITH DECLARING A PALESTINIAN STATE AND GO FROM THERE
     
04-29-02   PAUL WOLFOWITZ: U.N. INSPECTORS WILL NOT QUELL U.S. DOUBTS ABOUT IRAQ; U.S. MILITARY PREPARED IF SADDAM 'DOES SOMETHING STUPID'; EUROPE SHOULD PRESS ARAFAT ON SUICIDE BOMBERS
     
04-26-02   JACQUES ATTALI: THE LE PEN PARADOX -- A RENEWAL OF DEMOCRACY
     
04-22-02   SHIMON PERES: LET ARAFAT JOIN REGIONAL PEACE TALKS
     
04-17-02   DESMOND TUTU: JUST BECAUSE U.S. STANDS BEHIND IT, ISRAEL CAN'T THUMB ITS NOSE AT GOD
     
04-17-02   AMRE MOUSSA: IF POWELL FAILS ALL-OUT CHAOS WILL ENSUE
     
04-15-02   AHMED ZAKI YAMANI: OIL AS A WEAPON: AN EMBARGO WON'T WORK THIS TIME AROUND
     
04-08-02   NABIL SHAATH: PEACEKEEPING FORCE NEEDED TO REPLACE PALESTINIAN POLICE DESTROYED BY ISRAEL; BUSH SHOULD STOP DEMONIZING ARAFAT
     
04-08-02   WOLE SOYINKA: HUMILIATION, MARTYRDOM AND DEHUMANIZATION IN RAMALLAH
     
04-02-02   ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: U.S. IS WRONG TO BACK SHARON
     
04-01-02   BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: ONLY A MILITARY SOLUTION WILL END CONFLICT; EXPEL ARAFAT
     
03-27-02   DONALD RUMSFELD: U.S. IS NOT THE WORLD'S POLICEMAN, JUST KEEPING TERROR AT BAY
     
03-25-02   CHRIS PATTEN: FIGHTING TERRORISM: BEYOND THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN
     
03-18-02   QUEEN RANIA AL-ABDULLAH OF JORDAN: MICROFINANCE CAN CLOSE THE ''HOPE GAP'' LEFT BY TRADITIONAL AID
     
03-13-02   YOSSI BEILIN: TO END BLOODSHED, RETURN TO CLINTON PLAN FOR FINAL AGREEMENT
     
03-12-02   ROBERT S. MACNAMARA AND AMBASSADOR THOMAS GRAHAM, JR.: NEW BUSH POLICY WILL CAUSE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS GLOBALLY
     
03-04-02   ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, GEORGE SOROS, HILLARY CLINTON AND JOSEPH NYE: PARADIGMS AND PRIORITIES OF AMERICAN POWER -- A COLLAGE OF COMMENT
     
02-28-02   SHIMON PERES: ISRAEL WELCOMES SAUDI PEACE PLAN, BUT REAL PEACE IS IN THE DETAILS
     
02-25-02   PAUL KENNEDY:HOW AMERICA IS VIEWED BY OTHERS -- AND DOES IT MATTER?
     
02-19-02   MOHAMAD MAHATHIR: MUSLIM 'ULAMAS' STAND IN THE WAY OF MODERNIZATION
     
02-12-02   GEN. WESLEY CLARK: HAGUE TRIAL HISTORIC FOR TRYING HEAD OF STATE FOR CRIMES OF HIS ARMY
     
02-11-02  

ALEJANDRO TOLEDO: PERUVIAN DEMOCRACY STILL BLACKMAILED BY MONTESINOS

     
02-06-02   KINGSLEY CHIEDU MOGHALU: SKEWED COVERAGE OF WAR CRIMES TRIALS WEAKENS INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
     
02-05-02   GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO: TO WIN WAR ON TERROR, WE MUST ALSO WIN PEACE WITH DEVELOPMENT
     
02-01-02   ERNESTO ZEDILLO: MORE, NOT LESS, GLOBALIZATION FOR STABLE WORLD AFTER SEPTEMBER 11
     
02-01-02   JAGDISH BHAGWATI: IRONIC REVERSAL: POOR WORLD NOW FAVORS GLOBALIZATION, WHILE RICH HAVE DOUBTS
     
01-28-02   HASSAN AL TURABI: AMERICA WILL NOT TOLERATE ISLAMIC MOVEMENTS, EVEN IF THEY ARE PEACEFUL
     
01-22-01   AL-ANKARY: SAUDI ARABIA'S WAHHABIS ARE NOT SPREADING INTOLERANCE
     
01-15-02   ANNE KRUEGER: SHOULD COUNTRIES LIKE ARGENTINA BE ABLE TO DECLARE BANKRUPTCY?
     
01-14-02   MOHAMMED ZAHIR SHAH: TIME FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS TO RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN
     
01-08-02   WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE 21ST CENTURY
     
01-03-02   DILEEP PADGAONKAR: IN THE END, MUSHARRAF AND VAJPAYEE MAY BE PARTNERS IN LASTING PEACE
     
12-17-01   CARLOS FUENTES, JUAN GOYTISOLO, EDWARD SAID: STOP SHARON'S STATE TERRORISM
     
12-13-01   ROBERT MCNAMARA:WITHOUT ABM TREATY THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO OFFENSIVE BUILDUP
     
12-06-01   GEORGE MITCHELL: VIOLENCE WILL ACHIEVE NEITHER ISRAELI SECURITY NOR A PALESTINIAN STATE
     
12-04-01   RICHARD HOLBROOKE: PALESTINIANS HAVE LOST SYMPATHY AROUND WORLD WITH TERROR TACTICS; WITHOUT NON-U.N.-LED ENFORCEMENT OF STABILITY, POST-TALIBAN ACCORD WILL FAIL IN FACE OF GREEDY WARLORDS; SADDAM IS MOST DANGEROUS CHIEF OF STATE IN WORLD TODAY
     
12-03-01  

NABIL SHAATH: HARSH ISRAELI POLICY DOES NOT STOP VIOLENCE BUT INFLAMES EXTREMISTS

     
11-29-01  

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND KOICHIRO MATSUURA: ACCESS TO WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT

     
11-21-01   RICHARD HAASS: POST TALIBAN AFGHANISTAN: WEAK CENTER, STRONG REGIONS, BUT INCAPABLE OF HARBORING TERRORISTS; U.N., NOT U.S., WILL PLAY DOMINANT ROLE
     
11-19-01   AKBAR AHMED: HELLO, HOLLYWOOD: YOUR IMAGES AFFECT MUSLIMS EVERYWHERE
     
11-19-01   JACK VALENTI: HOLLYWOOD AND THE WAR AGAINST TERROR
     
11-12-01   BILL RICHARDSON: MEXICAN AND RUSSIAN OIL SUPPLIES CAN SHIFT U.S. DEPENDENCE FROM MIDDLE EAST
     
11-05-01  

MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD: TERRORISM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD

     
10-25-01   CONDOLEEZA RICE: MISSILE SHIELD AN EVEN GREATER PRIORITY AFTER SEPT. 11
     
10-22-01  

SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON: OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS GIVEN COMMON IDENTITY BACK TO THE WEST

     
10-16-01   SHEIKH SAUD NASSERNAL-SABBAH: POLITICAL ISLAMISTS HAVE HIJACKED ARAB WORLD; ARAB GOVERNMENTS NEED TO END 'ENTENTE' WITH THEM
     
10-11-01   ANWAR IBRAHIM: TERROR ATTACKS SET BACK CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY IN ISLAM
     
10-11-01   GABER ASFOUR: OSAMA BIN LADEN: FINANCIER OF INTOLERANT 'DESERT' ISLAM
     
10-08-01   SHINTARO ISHIHARA: CHINESE THREAT IS AXIS AROUND WHICH U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS WILL TURN IN THE FUTURE
     
10-04-01   JAMES WOLFENSOHN: FIGHT TERRORISM AND POVERTY
     
10-03-01   DENNIS ROSS: TO AVOID BEING ISOLATED LIKE OSAMA BIN LADEN, ARAFAT MUST END SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS; DAMASCUS CAN'T BOTH JOIN COALITION AND SPONSOR REJECTIONISTS
     
09-24-01   ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.:INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING BY UNITED STATES WILL CAUSE BACKLASH
     
09-24-01   BENJAMIN NATANYAHU: INCLUDING SYRIA, IRAN AND PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IN ANTI-TERROR COALITION WILL UNDERMINE IT
     
09-18-01   BENAZIR BHUTTO: CLEAN UP ISLAMABAD AND AFGHAN CAMPS WILL FALL LIKE DOMINOES; PAKISTANI SECURITY RIDDLED WITH TALIBAN SUPPORTERS; I AM NEXT TARGET OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
     
09-17-01   GRAHAM E. FULLER: AFGHANISTAN AND TERRORISM
     
09-14-01   PAUL KENNEDY: THE COLOSSUS WITH AN ACHILLES' HEEL
     
09-13-01   MADELEINE ALBRIGHT: TERROR ATTACK ENDS 'SOMALIA SYNDROME' IN WHICH U.S. FEARED TAKING CASUALTIES ABROAD; LONG ROAD AHEAD IN COALITION BUILDING
     
09-12-01   L. PAUL BREMER: THE NEW FACE OF TERRORISM
     
09-12-01   JAMES BAKER: GIVE AFGHANISTAN DEADLINE TO HAND OVER OSAMA BIN LADEN
     
09-10-01   EPHRAIM SNEH: PUT THOSE BEHIND TERROR IN JAIL, OR ISRAEL WILL KILL THEM
     
09-05-01   PAUL WOLFOWITZ: AFTER 50 YEARS, U.S.-JAPAN PACT REMAINS PILLAR OF PACIFIC PEACE; PENTAGON WILL NOT OVERREACT IF JAPAN CHANGES ARTICLE 9; CHINESE MISSILE SALES PROMPT NEED FOR U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE
     
09-04-01   JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI: THERE CAN BE NOTHING UNCONSTITUTIONAL ABOUT SELF-DEFENSE
     
09-04-01   HERBERT BIX: JAPANESE REFORM IS NOT POSSIBLE UNLESS IT CONFRONTS PAST
     
08-20-01   GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND: LET'S HAVE A CONSTRUCTIVE DEBATE ON THE BENEFITS AND DANGERS OF GM FOODS
     
08-16-01   MARY ROBINSON: THE DEEPER CHALLENGE OF THE DURBAN CONFERENCE
     
08-13-01   NABIL SHAATH: DEMANDING 'CALM' BEFORE NEGOTIATIONS IS ALIBI FOR ISRAEL TO 'GO ON SHOOTING'; ORIENT HOUSE SEIZURE SIGNALS BEGINNING OF REOCCUPATION
     
08-13-01   SHIMON PERES: SEIZURE OF ORIENT HOUSE SAYS JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE
     
08-07-01   ROBERT S. MCNAMARA: TIME FOR TEACH-INS ON GLOBALIZATION
     
08-07-01   CHRIS PATTEN: ANTI-GLOBALIZATION PROTESTS HURT, NOT HELP, POOR
     
07-17-01   VLADIMIR PUTIN: ARMS AGREEMENTS INVALID IF U.S. ABANDONS ABM TREATY; PACT WITH CHINA NOT AN ALLIANCE; NATO EXPANSION DIVIDES EUROPE
     
07-17-01   CORETTA SCOTT KING: G-8 SHOULD BE GENEROUS TO THE POOR, BUT PROTEST SHOULD BE NONVIOLENT
     
07-16-01   JACK GREENBERG: MCDONALD'S: A RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION CRITICS
     
07-16-01   WEI JINGSHENG: BEIJING OLYMPICS AND CHINESE-RUSSIA PACT ARE A FIASCO FOR WEST
     
07-12-01  

AMARTYA SEN: 10 THESES ON GLOBALIZATION

     
07-03-01   CHRIS PATTEN: COPING WITH EUROPE'S LEGITIMACY CRISIS
     
06-25-01   SALIM AHMED SALIM AND K.Y. AMOAKO: REGIONAL LINKS ALONG NILE CAN LIFT POOR OF AFRICA
     
06-20-01   JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN: TURNING THE TIDE AGAINST HIV/AIDS
     
06-19-01   VETON SURROI: HAS MACHISMO MIGRATED FROM MEXICO TO MACEDONIA?
   
06-07-01   CONDOLEEZA RICE:THERE IS NO STRATEGIC SPLIT WITH EUROPE
     
06-06-01   BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: WE CAN STOP THE TERROR
     
06-06-01   YOSSI BEILIN: IT IS A MISTAKE FOR SHARON TO CRUSH ARAFAT AND PLO
     
05-29-01   RICHARD GARWIN: MISSILE DEFENSE SHOULD PUT A LID OVER NORTH KOREA, NOT OVER THE UNITED STATES
     
05-29-01   MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: IDEA OF MISSILE DEFENSE IS TO BOOST MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
     
05-21-01   DANIEL BARENBOIM: AS A DEMOCRATIC STATE, ISRAEL SHOULD ALLOW WAGNER TO BE PLAYED
     
05-15-01   WANG JISI: "HOT PEACE"-- NOT COLD WAR -- BETWEEN U.S. AND CHINA
     
05-10-01   VALERIE GISCARD D'ESTAING: EUROPE LACKS WILL TO PURSUE SCHROEDER PLAN
     
05-07-01   JEANNE KIRKPATRICK: EUROPE IS BEHIND U.S. DEFEAT AT THE UNITED NATIONS
     
04-30-01   ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: AVOIDING A NEW COLD WAR
BETWEEN UNITED STATES AND CHINA
     
04-17-01   MARCUS VINCIUS PRATINI DE MORAES: FAIR GLOBALIZATION MEANS RICH COUNTRIES MUST ALLOW FREE TRADE IN AGRICULTURE