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OPEC President Scrambles for Output-Cut Consensus

October 16, 2006
Consumers are unlikely to be sympathetic, but OPEC’s president is striving to get the cartel to reduce oil production to halt an ongoing fall in oil prices. While prices are still more than twice as high as they are three years ago, they have fallen considerably off their recent peaks. President...

Bush's Missed UN Opportunity

September 12, 2005
As Sebastian Mallaby notes, the current global climate requires competent international institutions to help usher in the change. In the past, world policy deals could be hashed out by a small, Western-oriented group of diplomats – but no longer. Today, the rise of newer economic powers such as...

Plan Would Lift Saudi Oil Output

June 16, 2008
The world’s biggest oil exporter is increasing production this summer to its highest levels in history – and New York Times reporter Jad Mouawad suggests it’s a signal that Saudi Arabia is nervous about the growing furor over rising oil prices and demands for new sources of energy. Governments...

The Dying Fish Swims in Water

January 6, 2006
Within Russia, a small group of ethnic minorities fight for the survival of their languages and cultures, prompting a strong reaction from the Russian government. Finno-Ugric groups such as the Komi, Mari, and Udmurt resist a Russocentrism that makes traditional ways of life increasingly tenuous...

China Owes Japan for Riots

April 21, 2005
Citing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Japanese officials and experts in international law say that Beijing must apologize to Japan and compensate for property damage incurred in recent anti-Japanese demonstrations. The windows of the Japanese embassy and consulates were shattered...

China’s Foreign-Policy Balancing Act – Part II

Shen Dingli
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Are They Winning?

March 30, 2005
France's claim to be one of the principal architects of the European Union (EU) may falter if, as recent poll numbers suggest, its citizens reject the EU constitution in a May 29th referendum. Though the recent decline in support for the draft constitution may be a statistical aberration,...

Protests as Italy Expels Migrants

July 22, 2004
With its long coastline, Italy is one of most Europe’s most vulnerable countries in terms of illegal immigration. Largely African and Asian groups of migrants come via boat from places like Libya, where Italian officials believe up to 2 million more migrants may be waiting for transit into the...
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