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Europe’s Economic Groupthink
by Hans-Helmut Kotz*

18 June 2013, Tuesday /

During the recent hearing on the constitutionality of the European Central Bank’s measures to prevent the eurozone from falling apart, Andreas Vosskuhle, President of Germany’s Constitutional Court, raised an important question: Do non-German economists condemn the ECB’s outright monetary transactions (OMT) as unequivocally as all but one of the German experts testifying?

Only the Poor Die Young
by Johan P. Mackenbach*

People who are lower on the socioeconomic ladder (indicated by their level of education, »»

Not a Turkish Spring, but the growing pains of democracy
by Haluk Özdemir**

The street protests in Turkey are receiving considerable attention from the international »»

Global peace as a dream to follow
by Begüm Burak*

Every dream can come true if we have enough courage to follow it. »»

Covering the Taksim protests in the Arab world with a colonial mentality
by İbrahim Özdemir*

The Western media's coverage of the Taksim protests once more reminded us what the »»

Why all this hatred of capitalism?
by Nazila Isgandarova*

The ongoing socio-political crisis in Turkey shows that some segments of Turkish »»

Turkey at a crossroads: competitive authoritarianism or liberal democracy?
by Tuba Eldem*

In the past two weeks, Turkey has been shaken by nationwide protests that began on »»

The Gezi Park protests, the Middle East and the secular-religious divide
by Louis Fishman*

Just over two weeks ago, no one could have forecast that hundreds of thousands of »»

The Austerity Pandemic
by Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins*

At this year’s International Monetary Fund/World Bank spring meetings in Washington, »»

Whither Turkey?
by Fatma Müge Göçek*

On May 25, 2013, my colleague Ron Suny and I flew to İstanbul, Turkey, to attend »»

Lessons of a Greek tragedy
by Barry Eichengreen*

A visit to Greece leaves many vivid impressions. There are, of course, the country's »»

What's next for Syria?
by Robert Olson*

It now seems that the international conference organized largely by the US and Russia »»

Bismarck versus Bismarck
by Yannos Papantoniou*

The centrality of Germany to Europe and, more widely, to world affairs has been amply, »»

Don't miss the forest when it comes to Turkey's trees
by Leonidas Oikonomaki*

It all started with a few trees. »»

Climate change by the numbers
by Bob Ward*

Governments around the world have just received one of the most important scientific »»

The power of the prize
by Kandeh K. Yumkella*

The world faces two looming, interconnected energy challenges: how to provide reliable »»

Peace talks: the die has been cast
by Marianna Charountaki*

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the significance of which, as a formative player, »»

The Promise of Africa
by Ian Shapiro*

Is Africa rising? Judging by the buzz and optimism of the young business leaders »»

One-sided love affair? The reality of Arab-Turkish sentiments
by Ahmed Abou Hussein*

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood,” George »»

Experts believe Obama's new security team will not bring major changes to Syria policy
by Aydoğan Vatandaş*

In naming Susan Rice as the new national security advisor and nominating Samantha »»

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