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William Pfaff
Pfaff addresses the latest issues and long-term ramifications of current events, often before other political observers take note. Original and provocative, Pfaff studies European, Middle Eastern, Asian and American concerns through the prism of an American living abroad. Pfaff is a columnist for the International Herald Tribune based in Paris and the 2006 recipient of the American Academy of Diplomacy award for commentary.
William Pfaff Samples
Trans-Atlantic military cooperation gets complicated in Afghanistan
PARIS -- The annual Munich Security Conference is regularly the scene for the complaints of American official and semi-official participants deploring Europe's failure "to pull its weight" in defense, "free-riding" on American efforts, and failing...
American decline could worsen with focus on Iran and China
PARIS -- The framework in which most Americans, including the foreign policy specialists, see the world has totally changed in a decade. Americans in 2002 believed themselves on top of the world, capable of anything.
Is a nuclear Iran really to be feared?
PARIS -- The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American politicians, by the myth of Iran's "existential" threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.
Election will decide which new wars will be waged
PARIS -- Now that America's primary elections have eliminated the more implausible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, it is possible to take a clearer look at what the electorate will be up against when the conventions are over...
Karzai's Bagram demands add stress to US policy
PARIS -- The Afghan government's order a week ago to the United States to close its prison at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, where it holds unidentified prisoners, came as a shock to Washington, although President Hamid Karzai has before invited the ...
Ron Paul's popularity in Iowa a sign of a war-weary America
PARIS -- The opinion polls' forecast that Rep. Ron Paul would do well in the Iowa Republican caucus has surely not been evidence of a surge in Iowa of hostility to the Federal Reserve and to free trade.
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