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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Position: PM of Spain, holder of rotating presidency Powers: The long-term Council President should make this role irrelevant. Member states may disagree
As they contemplate the future, leaders of the E.U. can no longer avoid the hard question: Is a common foreign policy what its member states - and their domestic political constituencies - really want? If it isn't, then the rest of the world can adjust its expectations accordingly. If it is...
Few would want to deny what China's leaders since Mao Zedong have termed China's return to "dignity," a reference to the country's re-emergence as a great power in Asia. But even though other Asian states welcome economic opportunities offered by China's rise, the vast majority...
Asian states worry that an alternative order based on the superiority of the Chinese civilization will eventually become hierarchical. A still insecure and internally weak China has largely pursued win-win economic relationships to appease a nervous region. But if its domestic example is anything to go by - where the...
Fourteen U.S. states have voted to allow medical marijuana since California first legalized it in 1996; Colorado voters did so by amending the state constitution in 2000. But with drug possession still a federal offense, it wasn't until the Justice Department said in October it would refrain from prosecuting...