As the global economic crisis increases the importance of trade, and China and the United States eye greater engagement with Southeast Asia, ASEAN may play a more robust role in the region.
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Evan A. Feigenbaum argues that any multilateral group in Asia is more likely to be effective if Asian nations assemble those with the greatest power and capacity and have a clear, agreed purpose.
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Stewart M. Patrick examines the relevance of the G20 framework in a web of existing multilateral institutions and groupings.
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Joel D. Hirst discusses efforts by Honduras to rejoin the Organization of American States.
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This Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review article by Sevil Küçükkoşum examines talk of increasing economic integration between Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan that has prompted visions of a new Middle East Union to rival the EU.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair discusses the Middle East
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Philip Kazin, research director of the Baltic Research Center, a St. Petersburg-based think tank, says the agenda of the G-8 should focus on trade and energy issues, not on Russia's rollback of democracy.
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