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le the others are rising in power resources. Russia today lacks diversified exports, faces severe demographic and health problems, and in President Dmitry Medvedev's own words, greatly needs "modernization." When one looks closely at the numbers, China's growing economy and vast resources are the heart of the
erging as the key diplomatic actor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, have crisscrossed the Continent in recent weeks, trying to woo leaders who are weighing whether to support a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in September. Nei
ve Russian public to Putin and his policies. Although the electoral results are undoubtedly a signal to Putin and his political protégé, President Dmitry Medvedev, that Russian voters will not blindly follow wherever the Kremlin leads, in reality they do not portend seismographic shifts in the Russian politic
ond as recently as 2003, when then-Prime Minister Tony Blair joined President George W. Bush in his Iraq adventure despite grave misgivings on the Continent. In Brussels, which has for decades been depicted in the British press as little more than a bureaucratic monster, London has mostly played but a
le the others are rising in power resources. Russia today lacks diversified exports, faces severe demographic and health problems, and in President Dmitry Medvedev's own words, greatly needs "modernization." When one looks closely at the numbers, China's growing economy and vast resources are the heart of the
erging as the key diplomatic actor. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, have crisscrossed the Continent in recent weeks, trying to woo leaders who are weighing whether to support a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations in September. Nei
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Jerusalem
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Vladimir Putin
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Cairo
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Michael Cohen
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George W. Bush
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Middle East
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Damascus
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Adolf Hitler
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Marc Rich
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Tony Blair
PERSONMediterranean
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Fatah
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Hillary Clinton
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