How the US Can Fix its Damaged Reputation Abroad
Spiegel, by Strobe Talbott - Eight years of Bush administration leadership has severely damaged the reputation of the United States abroad. The incoming president will inherit this deficit as well as a host of other foreign policy crises. To gain back trust, he will have to address nonproliferation and climate change.
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The Fall of America, Inc.
Newsweek, by Francis Fukuyama - The Reagan revolution broke the 50-year dominance of liberals and Democrats in American politics and opened up room for different approaches to the problems of the time. But as the years have passed, what were once fresh ideas have hardened into hoary dogmas. The quality of political debate has been coarsened by partisans who question not just the ideas but the motives of their opponents. All this makes it harder to adjust to the new and difficult reality we face. So the ultimate test for the American model will be its capacity to reinvent itself once again.
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Serious politics is back, and Brown can stand tall again
Guardian - Let’s be realistic. The economics are unpredictable. Bad news still lies ahead. Labour MPs are still deeply gloomy about their chances. The likeliest outcome remains a Cameron victory. But at last we have a government that knows what it is for.
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Leaders of eurozone adopt ‘radical’ British rescue plan
Independent - Relations between Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy are said to have been deeply strained by the crisis, despite a show of friendliness at yesterday’s meeting and at another encounter in France on Saturday. Relations between Mr Brown and President Sarkozy appeared excellent, however. The Journal du Dimanche – a newspaper which seems to reflect the mood of M. Sarkozy – paid tribute to Mr Brown yesterday as a “magician” who had “rediscovered” his magic touch.
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There Is a Silver Lining
Newsweek, by Fareed Zakaria - The crisis has forced the United States to confront bad habits developed over the past few decades. If we can kick those habits, today’s pain will translate into gains.
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Leviathan Then And Now
Policy Review - Neither liberal relativism nor liberal postmodernism, both of which, like Hobbes’s political theory, are based on the rejection of the idea of an ultimate aim or greatest good, calls into question Hobbes’s grounding of the foundation of freedom and equality in the indignity and inefficacy of man’s natural condition.
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Kuća nije hladna kad je čeljad gladna
B92 Blog by Vlasta92 - Moje domaćinstvo spada među onih 150.000 hiljada domaćinstava u Vojvodini koje se ove zime verovatno neće ogrejati. Možda, ako budemo počeli da živimo život sa slika naivaca. Sneg, a iz odžaka salaša vije se dim put sivog neba. Do sada su nam računi za gas bili oko 12 i više hiljada dinara, a sada, nakon što je Vlada Republike Srbije odobrila poskupljenje gasa za oko dest dinara po kubnom metru, očekujem račun od oko 20.000 dinara.
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The radical left’s wet dream, or chaotic market logic?
Independent - It’s the intellectual chaos that is the really frightening thing. Those who believe most fervently in the free market are the very people who hate most the spectacle of watching free-market favouring governments attempting to save it.
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