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...they run their domestic affairs very differently. Perceptions matter. Iran's rulers interpret sympathetic media reports of demonstrations as interference arising from hostility. Insistence that Iran should heed Security Council resolutions on its nuclear program reads as hypocrisy when there is no action on Israel's nukes. The Iranian leadership rejects what it calls double standards on violence: calling for peaceful solutions but waging war in Iraq. Iran's government (but not all its people) rejects cultural influences from Western creative industries, which to the authorities reek of moral corruption. The government considers proposed solutions to problems involving Iran...
Other parts of China are witnessing similar disaffection among angry young men. But Xinjiang is like Tibet in that it has a sizable non-Han population. Unrest in these two regions conjures up one of the Chinese leadership's worst nightmares: the rise of a separatist movement that would break up the country. Given the enormous economic and social challenges China faces, Beijing values stability above all and will do practically anything to maintain...
...moon, the U.N. Secretary-General, was subject to a bitter attack in Foreign Policy magazine recently for "frittering away influence" at a time when "global leadership is urgently needed." But Tim Wirth, president of the U.N. Foundation, argues that Ban's critics miss the point. The U.N., Wirth says, is not a vertical institution but a horizontal one, with 192 nation-states acting as shareholders. Ban can't tell the U.N.'s members--or even its agencies--what to do. He has to negotiate and coordinate, find a consensus. He manages to do that, Wirth says, by "keeping...
...Leadership, to Americans, is a familiar concept. Go into any bookstore, and the number of tomes with the word in the title--Total Leadership, The Leadership Code, Leadership for Dummies (of course)--can make you think it has replaced dieting as a way to move merchandise. Listen to politicians' stump speeches, and it will be seconds before you hear them extol their unique leadership qualities...
...leadership, at least in the way that it's understood in the U.S., is not an idea--or even a word--that travels very well. It's remarkably hard to convey in French, while Germans routinely go through linguistic contortions to avoid reminding themselves that the natural translation of leader is Führer...