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		<title>German absence of vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany national interest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chancellor Angela Merkel's pragmatic and cautious defense of Germany's national interest in the age of globalization may yet instigate an aggressive new nationalism in Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>Streets worldwide showing the failings of democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[citizen apathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street protests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Historians examining our era will marvel at the proliferation of street protests defining the appeal of political community in old and new democracies.]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey&#8217;s turn to fight over future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erdogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The protests in Turkey now involve an extraordinary diverse group. They are said to pit secularists against Islamists and authoritarians against democrats.]]></description>
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		<title>What Bismarck can show Red China</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/06/05/commentary/what-bismarck-can-show-red-china/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-bismarck-can-show-red-china</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than a century and a half after it was published, Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s &#8220;The Old Regime and the Revolution&#8221; has become an unlikely best-seller in China. Wang Qishan, China&#8217;s anti-corruption czar, is reportedly among the senior leaders obsessed with what he sees as the book&#8217;s cautionary message: that increasing prosperity and piecemeal political reform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why China&#8217;s developmental state says no to liberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/22/commentary/why-chinas-developmental-state-says-no-to-liberalism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-chinas-developmental-state-says-no-to-liberalism</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in Britain and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and frames larger views of political developments in the non-West. It accounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last refuge of weak leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anti-Japanese sentiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Asian nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shinzo Abe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why have anti-Japanese sentiments resurfaced in China and South Korea in 2013 &#8212; just as Japan is trying to recover from two lost economic decades]]></description>
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		<title>Japan must re-learn its militarist past</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/04/17/commentary/japan-must-re-learn-its-militarist-past/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=japan-must-re-learn-its-militarist-past</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yasukuni Shrine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Japan's conservative rulers will need a more capacious sense of history if they are to succeed in building new bridges with the country's Asian neighbors.]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy votes to kill in Indonesia, Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/06/commentary/democracy-votes-to-kill-in-indonesia-pakistan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=democracy-votes-to-kill-in-indonesia-pakistan</link>
		<comments>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/03/06/commentary/democracy-votes-to-kill-in-indonesia-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pankaj Mishra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent slaughter of Shiites in Pakistan is another grisly reminder of the perilous condition of its minorities. Indeed, in Pakistan and Indonesia, the two largest Muslim countries, both of which are in the midst of a fraught experiment with electoral democracy after decades of military rule, murderous assaults on Shiites, Christians and Ahmadis by [...]]]></description>
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