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14.5 13.0 12.6 France 3.6 3.8 4.9 4.5 8.0 7.5 7.3 Germany 8.2 10.3 10.3 9.6 9.5 9.1 8.8 Greece 1.2 1.7 3.6 3.7 5.0 4.9 4.4 Hungary 7.3 7.4 6.5 Iceland 5.1 6.0 5.5 8.3 12.9 13.8 12.9 Ireland 4.2 7.2 10.7 10.5 9.4 8.8 7.5 Israel 10.7 8.1 6.3 Italy 2.8 3.8

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

join its "Eurasian Union." I suspect the cost to Moscow just went up. Beyond the near abroad, Russia's relations with countries such as Poland and Hungary, once warming, are now tense and adversarial. NATO, which has been searching for a role in the post-Cold War era, has been given a new lease on lif

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.

s new book is not at all about Putin and only indirectly about Russia. "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-56" focuses on Poland, Hungary and East Germany. It details the Soviet recipe used to stifle three wildly unalike countries. The book is richly human, sometimes funny, often hear

toward the end of the last century and into this one, many people assumed that history moves in only one direction. The tide of freedom had lifted East Asia and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. In an era of global trade and communications, the rest of the world surely would follow.

y an attractive trading partner for Europe, with significant mineral resources, a large landmass bordering four EU member states (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania), an educated population of forty-five million, and a 2012 GDP of more than $175 billion. However, it EFTA00636723 has heavy financi

bitter historical memories and fresh, global aspirations -- in short, it's a toxic mixture of geopolitics. In fact, a military crisis is brewing in East Asia -- one that is being played out hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from these desolate islands. A New Air Defense Zone In Beijing, 1,600 kil

omic scholar and publicist Laszlo Lengyel. "The danger of this is that entire social classes or regions like those in eastern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary fall victim to hopelessness and extremism." This is brought into particularly stark relief by the relative success of other political and economic

n the South China Sea and generally unnerving most of the region, the Obama administration has reconfirmed the central role of the United States in East Asia. The opening of a new base in Australia is a powerful symbol of America's enduring strategic presence in the region. The opening with Burma obvious

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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