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Beyond its neighborhood, however the E.U. has rarely punched its collective weight. The main reason for that, of course, is that member states still like to defend and pursue their own national interests, rather than subsume them in a multinational body. There's also a case - and plenty in Europe make it - that Europe is better off continuing to aim low. "Very few European countries see the role of the E.U. as a power," says Moïsi. "They see Europe as a place - with a common market, a common currency, but not a power that should project itself onto...
...that requires political leadership, which in much of Europe is lacking. Yes, Britain still sees itself as having a global role; so does France, whose President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been active on issues from the Georgia war of 2008 to the consequences of a nuclear Iran. But the E.U.'s largest state is absent from most such debates. For the last half of the 20th century, Germany was at the heart of the European experiment. But since the end of the Cold War, it has stepped back from the E.U., regularly taking a different path when Europe attempted a unified...
...past is not simply a dead history," George Eliot wrote in the sweeping novel Middlemarch. "It is a still quivering part of himself." As an executive summary of A Life Apart - the complex, occasionally overwrought but ultimately satisfying fiction debut of TIME contributor Neel Mukherjee - that pretty much fits the bill. The book was first published as Past Continuous in India, where, along with Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, it was joint winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award, the country's most prominent prize for English-language writing. The newly entitled edition is slightly revised and tighter...
Call it the Ka-Ching dynasty. After decades of relying on exports and investment, China's leadership is targeting domestic consumption as the most enduring driver of economic growth. Not only are there more Chinese with money to spend, the still fragile state of the global economy makes self-reliance an imperative. "As we stand at a new historical juncture, we must change the old way of inefficient growth and transform the current development model," Vice Premier Li Keqiang, the likely successor to Premier Wen Jiabao, declared at Davos in January...
...These days, the company works with NBA stars like Baron Davis (who has a signature Li Ning shoe, the BD-1) and Shaquille O'Neal (who is under a five-year contract with the brand). But it still maintains its value-for-money approach to marketing - recently making a big push, for example, into badminton, a sport largely ignored in the West but played and watched by some 300 million Chinese. Li Ning - sponsored shuttlecock star Lin Dan graces billboards and TV ads around China, and the firm opened a "badminton paradise" last year in Singapore, its first international outlet...