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for: ‘January, 2012’

Link: Global Public Square, CNN.com By Harris Mylonas and Emirhan Yorulmazlar – Special to CNN The Cold War and the early post-Cold War periods were relatively easy to define and comprehend. The first was roughly the struggle between two superpowers forming a bipolar system where almost every state had to choose a side. What followed was a period described by Fukuyama …

Will Brussels ever become Washington? By Roberto Foa January 2012 I lived in Washington, DC for about two years, during the dying days of the Bush administration. A sense of decadence and decline hung heavy over the city, like the plumes of smoke that still pocked Baghdad skies, leaving their trails across the daily headlines. …