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s. TB: How important has Israel been to the revival of Islam? DP: It is a major factor in the neighboring states. But elsewhere, in Morocco, Iran, Malaysia, it has minor importance. EFTA00683501 TB: Since the "Arab Spring," Israel seems increasingly beleaguered DP: Not really, not yet, though I agree

as was Europe's in the 1980s — and it is taking place at a vastly lower level of development than the corresponding flights in Europe and developed East Asia. "Something really big is under way — and practically no one has noticed it, even in the Arab world," argues Eberstadt. These studies are a remind

ng's assertive, nationalist actions over disputed islets in the East China Sea with Japan and the South China Sea with the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. The maritime disputes may be a popular short-term distraction, but won't alleviate pressures for change. However, at the end of the day, the legi

Security and its Strategic Foresight Initiative. He previously served in the US State Department as a senior advisor to the Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific (1989- 1993), on the Secretary's Policy Planning staff (2004-2008) and on the National Intelligence Council Strategic Futures Group

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le currency area. Germany's relatively strong growth compared the rest of the Eurozone is in no small part due to this flexibility, with exports to East Asia in particular playing an important role. The FTT would hamper Germany's export flexibility by 10 See, for example, International Capital Market As

e United States. In January 2007, the Hong Kong Ming Pao Group announced a $600 million merger with the two largest Chinese-language media outlets in Malaysia, the Xingzhou Media and Nanyang News. The merger was welcomed in Beijing. Guo Zhaojin, then president of the China News Service, said the new company

ce in Asian affairs. The government in Beijing was seen as preoccupied with domestic affairs, no longer opposed to the presence of American forces in East Asia, and anxious to work with the United States and other noncommunist countries to offset Soviet pressure against China. The Americans saw the Taiwan qu