Joshua Kurlantzick explores Deng Xiaoping's legacy in his review of Ezra Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China and Henry Kissinger's On China.

In this article for the New York Review of Books, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley analyze the "counterrevolution" in the Middle East and discuss the potential long-term ramifications for political transitions in the region.

Nigerian author and Brown University professor, Chinua Achebe, writes an op-ed piece in order to "restore the postcolonial dream of political liberty."

Speaker: Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

An interactive map of the Horn of Africa.

Islamabad's brutal attempts to crush ethnic Baloch nationalism have met with fierce, escalating resistance - and have laid bare the strains that threaten the founding idea of Pakistan. Madiha R Tahir reports from the rallies, homes and hospital rooms of the fifth Baloch rebellion.

Joshua Kurlantzick discusses rising nationalist sentiment among Asian nations.

Daniel P. Serwer, who served as executive director of the Baker-Hamilton Commission on Iraq, says the "serious" crisis between Kurdistan and the central Iraqi government "needs to be resolved" to some degree before the U.S. troops leave."

Michael Gerson argues that President Obama "could have led the world in condemning Internet censorship and the arrest of dissidents" in Iran.

As "nationalist demagogues" take power in India and Israel, Pankaj Mishra examines the histories of division, ethnic cleansing, and militant patriotism that have led both countries into a "moral wilderness."

A culture of fear has supplanted the traditional U.S. culture of hope. By returning to hope, the United States can regain the standing it has lost.

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Protests in Kashmir hearken back to Clinton's description that it might be “the most dangerous place on earth.”

Turkey's highest court decided not to ban the country's ruling party. CFR's Steven A. Cook says the decision saves the Turkish government but does little to heal mosque-state tensions.

Peter W. Rodman examines anti-Americanism which has increasingly become a global phenomenon.

Nationalism in China, surging amid protests over Beijing's rule in Tibet, increasingly fills the role Maoism played before China embraced capitalism.

Edward Friedman, an expert on Chinese nationalism, says China’s ethnic Han majority views minorities like Tibetans and Uighurs as "people who should be incorporated into the larger Chinese state."

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria argues that public humiliation does not work nearly as well on the regime in Beijing as private pressure.

Taiwan expert Alan D. Romberg says the election of Ma Ying-jeou as the island’s next president should usher in a new era of less contentious cross-Strait relations.

Henry Siegman, an expert on Middle East negotiations, says no peace will be possible between Israel and the Palestinians unless Hamas is brought into the talks.