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Avinash Persaud: It is tempting to base ideas for global financial regulation on bashing big banks. The greater problem is that of diverging American and European views on a safer rulebook.
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Russian Youth Atlantic Treaty Association: Much can be gained from promoting European values in a region as diverse and conflict-ridden as the North Caucasus. A Russian youth organization is showing the way. An all-out public diplomacy effort is needed to reduce tensions in the region.
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Colette Grace Mazzucelli: The explosive growth of mobile phone use in developing countries brings human rights abuses to the world's attention. International civil society could become a bulwark of protection against oppressive regimes.
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Gregg Dubow: Iceland’s bold and progressive move towards passing a new media protection law could protect reliable sources of valuable information from censorship just as tax havens legally protect various sources of revenue from taxation.
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Brian Joshua Safran: Corporations on both sides of the Atlantic have channeled their collective energies into their respective Chambers of Commerce to complain about China's lack of enforcement of IPR. However, evidence suggests that such firms are not availing themselves to the protections the Chinese system affords.
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Gregory Nizhnikau: The internal problems that Russian authorities will eventually have to face, but are at present unwilling to tackle, create an opportunity for the West to engage the countries of the region that are more than willing to keep their distance from Moscow.
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Matthew Neil Hulbert: Breakthroughs in unconventional gas production across America threaten to turn the gas world on its head. But there is a catch: should this prove to be a false dawn for unconventional production either on cost or ecological grounds, then consumers are riding for a fall.
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Stanley R. Sloan: For NATO to survive, the US must be convinced that political and military cooperation with the Europeans contributes to its security. Meanwhile, it is important for the Europeans to feel that their contribution to US efforts gives them some say in US security decision making.
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Ulf Gartzke: General McChrystal's "Rolling Stone" controversy may have caused shock, disbelief, and outrage across the United States, but to those following the former top US commander in Afghanistan since the beginning of his tenure, his downfall should not be a complete surprise. After all, in terms of mishandling the media, McChrystal is a repeat offender.
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