EFTA00718128.txt

"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first trip in office was to Asia"

"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel"

"President Obama's Asia policy"

"Ron Pundak, one of the original Israeli architects of the 1993 Oslo agreement"

"Yasser Arafat recognized Israel, Yitzhak Rabin recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people"

"the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization... Yasser Arafat"

"the Prime Minister of the State of Israel... Yitzhak Rabin"

"Prime Minister Menachem Begin"

"The man who actually signed the agreement was Mahmoud Abbas"

"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was in China earlier this month"

"Mr. Obama's trip to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this week"

"Mr. Obama's trip to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this week"

"Mr. Obama's trip to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this week"

"Mr. Obama's trip to Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia this week"

"Tom Donilon is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"and a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center"

"Erdogan, as its charismatic leader"

"Nurettin Canikli, the deputy head of the AKP's parliamentary group"

"Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the main opposition Republican Peoples' Party (CHP)"

"Devlet Bahceli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)"

"President Abdullah Gul, who is a co-founder of the AKP"

"Cemil Cicek, who is the speaker of parliament and a prominent AKP figure"

"Vladimir Putin has made Russia less democratic, restricting liberties and limiting the Russian public's control over its government."

"When the recession struck, the regime responded quickly, implementing in November 2008 a stimulus package"

"A much-discussed official document issued in November 2013 promised steps in that direction"

"Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International "

"This essay is adapted from his new book The Road to Global Prosperity"

""Distributional coalitions" is Mancur Olson's concept, described in The Rise and Decline of Nations"

"AKP circles, of course, argue that that vote will translate into a 60% vote for Erdogan"

"I visited Arafat in Tunis while the talks in Oslo were going on"

"Uri Avnery... Founding member, Gush Shalom (peace bloc), independent peace movement (1993)"

"Former publisher and editor-in-chief Haolam Hazeh news magazine (1950-1990)"

"Former member of the Knesset (three terms: 1965-1969, 1969-1973, 1979-1981)"

"Cardoso was subsequently twice elected Brazil's President, in 1994 and 1998"

"His two-term successor, Luis Inaeio Lula da Silva"

"Carol Giacomo... joining The Times editorial board in August 2007"

"The Washington Post... Tom Donilon"