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4 RUSSIA: Politics Returns To Russia Alex Nice 7 PAKISTAN

All-Weather Friendship? Rosheen Kabraji 7 A Tough Way To Do Business Shashank Joshi 10 13 GREECE: Default And Exit Vassilis Fouskas 16 COUNCIL OF EUROPE: The Soft Power Twin Denis MacShane MP 18 KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Black Monday Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 21 EGYPT: The Importance Of History And Process Louisa Loveluck 24 SOUTH AFRICA: Outcry And Protest

Herman Wasserman & Michelle Solomon 28 GLOBAL HEALTH: Eradication And Elimination

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