I would like to offer my congratulations to Arianna on the Japan edition of HuffPost and her interview with Abe. This is a great sign that Japan, or at least some in Japan, are opening up again after shutting down for the past two decades.

And...

Recently, I spoke with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, and his-coauthor, Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, about their new book, The Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. Read this fascinating interview for some of the insights and vision you'll find on every page of...

In his new book, The End of Power, Moises Naim puts his finger squarely on the central issue of our time: how to achieve effective governance after the end of power.

A perfect storm of manifold transformations, from globalization to cultural liberalization and social mobility to the spread of one-person,...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- In the center of Buenos Aires, along the city's main boulevard, stands a tall building that houses the ministries of Health and Social Development. A huge visage of Eva Peron appears on both sides. The one facing the poor districts of the south is smiling and...

Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution -- and during the American hostage crisis that was the basis of the recent Academy Award-winning film "Argo." This article was translated by Mahmood Delkhasteh for the Global Viewpoint Network that I edit.

By...

Chen Guangcheng is the blind civil rights advocate from rural China who escaped house arrest in April 2012 and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton negotiated his temporary stay in the U.S. to study law at New York University.

I interviewed him recently for...

On Friday night, Arianna Huffington generously hosted a book party...

The ongoing irresolution of the fiscal challenge by President Obama and the U.S. Congress suggests to any sober minded person that politics as usual in our adversarial democracy, where different constituencies of the body politic are passionately mobilized against each other, cannot solve the problem.

To do so, we...

SEVILLA, SPAIN -- The upcoming Italian elections are testing whether democracy can correct itself. The elections are a contest between the populism of short-term fixes and the long-term reforms necessary to make Italy's economy solvent, competitive and sustainable over the long run.

Mario Monti's period as an unelected "technocratic"...

The rise of Asia is the single most important historical development of our era. Yet, for all its now well-established might, few voices from the region have stepped forward to address what role Asia, and above all China, must play in shaping Globalization 2.0 -- the interdependence of plural identities...

BERLIN -- The future of the European Union has never been more in doubt than at the very moment when it is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for its historical accomplishments.

On December 10, the heads of Europe's collective institutions -- the Commission, the Council and the Parliament -- will...

Tom Plate stands out among Western journalists. Not only has this former editorial director of the Los Angeles Times, syndicated columnist and Loyola Marymount University professor relentlessly chronicled the most important story of our era -- the rise of Asia -- but he has done so through his rare personal...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the author of Infidel. She was forced into hiding in Holland after making a film on Islam and women called Submission with Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh was killed on the street in Amsterdam by an extremist Muslim activist. Hirsi Ali now lives in the United...

The events of recent days in the Middle East only forewarn of future turmoil as the democratization of the media in the West meets the political awakening in the Arab world.

The now-marginalized children of Facebook may have inaugurated the Arab Spring, which unleashed -- some say liberated --...

I just finished reading a small book about a very big man. The book, Stanley K. Sheinbaum: A 20th Century Knight's Quest for Peace, Civil Liberties and Economic Justice is a biography as told to -- and beautifully crafted by -- Bill Meis.

Sheinbaum has had a life of intrigue...

A few weeks ago I posted this article by Enrique Pena Nieto from my Global Viewpoint Network on how he would address the issue of security and the drug war in Mexico. Now that he has been elected president of Mexico, it is worth reading again.

Making Mexico Safe
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The romantic side of the Germanic soul has always loved the Italian volksgeist. Like Goethe, northerners have long sought to escape, if only on temporary vacations, an unforgiving ethos of prudence and discipline in search of the charming inefficiency and sensuality of Mediterannean climes and culture.

The single European currency,...

Mexico's likely next president, Enrique Peña Nieto, outlines here his plan for North American security and for making Mexico safe. He is the former governor of the state of Mexico and the candidate of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party.)

By Enrique Peña Nieto

Once every 12 years there is...

Abdullah Gul is the president of Turkey. I spoke with him during his visit to the United States for the NATO summit in Chicago. Here is the interview:

Nathan Gardels: Due to the rapid rise of the emerging powers, American-led Globalization 1.0 is yielding to a new...

Ahmed Zewail was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. A professor of chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology he has been playing an active role in Egypt's transformation to democracy. He wrote this article in advance of the first round of elections in Egypt on May...