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4.0 -10.0 r. 26.0 Netherlands 25.0 Denmark r change -7.0 25.0 Austria (percentage points) -9.0- 25.0 -4.5 Finland 2000-2013 -7.0 24.5 United Kingdom si 2013 rate 23.0 Sweden 22.0 -6.0 Switzerland -3.7 21.1 Turkey -13.0 20.0 Chile 5 20.0 -40 -20 0 20 Source: OECD, Centre for Tax Po

555.8 517.9 51.2 46.4 391.5 SSA 487 361.7 47.5 41.2 297.6 MENA 684.5 963.2 15.5 15.9 162.9 LAC 1130.7 1375.5 11.4 145.1 1133.5 East Asia and Pacific 1974.3 1881.7 7.8 339.8 1286.6 Central Europe and Asia 1273.9 1509.9 10.7 73.8 1095.3 South Asia 375.9 60.7 16.7 40.3 46

happened with Syria in August, the White House had issued threats before assembling the appropriate coalition to back them up. On March 4, Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, which had far deeper economic ties to Russia than did the United States, all indicated EFTA00684184 they would not go along with pun

res the kingdom's pivot to the east. Long before the American pivot, Saudi Arabia has reoriented its economic and political priorities to South and East Asia. Salman arrived in Beijing on March 13 for his first visit to China. Last month, the crown prince visited Pakistan, Japan, India and the Maldives.

r, isolated part of the world that had liberated itself from Ottoman rule during the First World War, and came then under the paracolonial aegis of Great Britain. The kingdom was organized in religious terms by a version of Sunni Islam called Wahabism (or Salafism). Wahabism is a very strict puritanical doct

needed most. The once-hopeful Arab Spring has staggered into civil war and military coup. China is stepping up territorial claims in the waters off East Asia. Longtime allies in Europe and in the Persian Gulf are worried by the inconsistency of a president who came to office promising the end of the Uni

the EU preconditions for designating an organization a terrorist entity, "Hezbollah qualifies on all accounts." Other European governments agree. The United Kingdom declared Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist entity in 2008 because its members targeted British soldiers in Iraq for death. Across the English

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

burne University, Australia JOHN GARNAUT Former Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia TIMOTHY GARTON ASH Oxford University, United Kingdom FRANCOIS GODEMENT European Council on Foreign Relations BILAHARI KAUSIKAN Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore RICHARD

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