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Guide to top diplomacy programs
A brief rundown of some of the top schools in the US and Europe that specialize in international relations.
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The Monitor's View: Japan-China island clash: Peace in a common history
The island clash between Japan and China, as well as other island disputes in East Asia, could be more easily resolved if neighbors shared a common view of history.
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Opinion: A bright spot for American workers – in other countries
Are Americans really doing everything in their power to find work if they aren’t willing to leave the friendly fifty? The coming global talent crunch gives well-trained American workers an advantage. Work abroad awaits Americans willing to chase it down.
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Bollywood's global push
India is home to the world's most prolific film industry, one that is quickly making inroads into more established Western markets.
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Ideas for a better world in 2011
In many ways, 2010 is a year you may want to relegate to the filing cabinet quickly. It began with a massive earthquake in Haiti and wound down with North Korea once again being an enfant terrible – bizarrely trying to conduct diplomacy through brinkmanship. In between came Toyota recalls and egg scares, pat downs at airports and unyielding unemployment numbers, too little money in the Irish treasury and too many bedbugs in American sheets. Oil gushed from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for three months, mocking the best intentions of man and technology to stop it, while ash from a volcano in Iceland darkened Europe temporarily as much as its balance sheets. Yet not all was gloomy. The winter Olympics in Canada and the World Cup in South Africa dazzled with their displays of athletic prowess and national pride, becoming hearths around which the world gathered. In Switzerland, the world's largest atom smasher hurled two protons into each other at unfathomable speeds. Then came the year's most poignant moment – the heroic and improbable rescue of 33 miners from the clutches of the Chilean earth. There were many transitions, too – the return of the Republicans in Washington and the Tories in Britain, the scaling back of one war (Iraq) and the escalation of another (Afghanistan), the fall of some powers (Greece) and rise of others (China, Germany, Lady Gaga). To get the new year off to the right start, we decided to ask various thinkers for one idea each to make the world a better place in 2011. We plumbed poets and political figures, physicists and financiers, theologians and novelists. Some of the ideas are provocative, others quixotic. Some you will agree with, others you won't. But in the modest quest to stir a discussion – from academic salons to living rooms to government corridors – we offer these 25 ideas.
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Clinton's push for Arab democracy overshadowed by Israel stance
Hillary Clinton announced new aid programs at a two-day forum with Arab leaders in Morocco, which she held up as a model for democratic reform in the region.
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Pentagon to show softer side to the world
Gates picks an admiral with diplomatic skills to command US troops in Europe.
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Five ways Bush's policies changed world
The Iraq war dominated his presidency, but it isn't the only signature foreign-policy event of his tenure.
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In Iraq, an assertion of US 'hard' power
Final chapter on war yet to be written; known costs include sagging world standing for US, rise of Iran in the region.
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Bush scores well on India and China, less so for Iran, N. Korea
Other key foreign-policy moves include his decision to boost aid for fighting AIDS in Africa.
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Ban torture for security's sake, coalition tells Bush
The bipartisan group this week sought an executive order, but acknowledged change may not occur until next presidency.
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Ban torture for security's sake, coalition tells Bush
The bipartisan group this week sought an executive order, but acknowledged change may not occur until next presidency.
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Opinion: Transformational leaders are not always better
They can inspire and unite followers, but effectiveness and ethics can suffer.
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