In Referendum, Greece Seeks Something It Had Lost: Sovereignty
Greece's controversial decision to put the European bail-out to a national vote is a rejection of European collective rule More »
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Heather Horn is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She is a former features editor and staff writer for The Atlantic Wire, and was previously a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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The United States has passed the point where its people can "be leaders by doing any one dramatic thing," said former secretary of state Henry Kissinger Thursday. But while "it's hard not to admit that we are in a strategic contraction," he commented, referring at Iraq and Afghanistan, "... we can be leaders by our performance now."Speaking specifically about China at the Washington Ideas Forum, Kissinger characterized the developing U.S.-China relationship as… More »
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