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123651
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BACK IN November 2011, as Europe struggled with its ongoing financial crisis, Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, gave a speech in Berlin that beckoned toward his country's western neighbor and pleaded with it to save the euro. "You know full well that nobody else can do it," said Sikorski. "I will probably be the first Polish foreign minister in history to say so, but here it is: I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity. You have become Europe's indispensable nation."
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123646
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123649
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123650
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2012.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S late 2011 announcement of his administration's pivot to Asia marked a sea change in America's geopolitical posture away from Europe and the Middle East to Asia and the Pacific Rim. Reflecting the growing strategic repercussions of China's rise, the move presages a new era of great-power politics as the United States and China compete in Pacific waters. But is the United States looking in the right place?
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123653
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2012.
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LIKE THE human-rights movement, democracy promotion is a radical project of social and political transformation whose adherents will not or cannot acknowledge either the ideological or the revolutionary character of their enterprise. In this, democracy promotion should be understood as a subset of contemporary liberalism-the only major modern ideology that denies it is an ideology at all. More precisely, it is the end state of human political organization after all the other ideologies have withered away, the future's moral default position.
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123652
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2012.
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SHOULD SYRIAN president Bashar al-Assad fall, Syria's problems will have only just begun. With the dictator gone, crime, score settling and a violent contest for power likely will ensue, keeping the streets unsafe and the people afraid. Iran, foreign jihadists and Syria's neighbors may meddle to protect their interests or stir up trouble. Assad kept Syria's rival communities in check through force, but his reign created underlying schisms. Now, the civil war has generated new ones. It also has turned the country's economy, always struggling, into a disaster area. So far the splintered Syrian opposition has shown no skill in reassuring Syria's minorities, and any new government's initial legitimacy is likely to be weak.
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123647
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2012.
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MOST AMERICANS know Niccolò Machiavelli only from The Prince, a sixteenth-century "audition tape" he dashed off in lieu of a résumé to try to land a job. It's a shame. Not only was Machiavelli the leading advocate of democracy of his day, but his ideas also had a profound influence on the framers of our own Constitution.
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