“The world has slowly tired of the Palestinians in their current political mode, and focused on other issues, because the prospects of a negotiated Arab-Israeli peace seem slim, as diplomatic attempts to reach a full peace have repeatedly confirmed in the last three decades.”

Rami Khouri, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “Why Support for Palestine Ebbs,” which Agence Global released on November 18, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2192

“Metrobús also offers a remarkable example of how to put a new transport system into place in a relatively short time, how to foster cooperation over competition in a city known for its rough-and-tumble politics, and how to create a public-private transport system that does not rely on massive public subsidies. In other words, not business as usual.”

Cristine Russell, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Environment and Natural Resources Program, wrote “Take the Metrobús in Mexico City,” which the Atlantic published on November 17, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/cristine_russell/2009/11/take_the_metrobus_in_mexico_city.php

“The Chimerican era is drawing to a close. Given the bursting of the debt and housing bubbles, Americans will have to kick their addiction to cheap money and easy credit. The Chinese authorities understand that heavily indebted American consumers cannot be relied on to return as buyers of Chinese goods on the scale of the period up to 2007.”

Niall Ferguson, a member of the Belfer Center’s board of directors, and Moritz Schularich co-wrote “The Great Wallop,” which the New York Times published on November 16, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.org/publication/19696/

“Mahmoud Abbas should cut short his silly little melodrama, resign as he said he would, and pave the way for a needed revival of effective Palestinian national leadership.”

Rami Khouri, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “Palestinians Need Change — Not Charades,” which Agence Global released on November 16, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2191

“…1989 was less of a watershed year than 1979. The reverberations of the fall of the Berlin Wall turned out to be much smaller than we had expected at the time. In essence, what happened was that we belatedly saw through the gigantic fraud of Soviet superpower. But the real trends of our time—the rise of China, the radicalization of Islam, and the rise and fall of market fundamentalism—had already been launched a decade earlier.”

Niall Ferguson, a member of the Belfer Center’s board of directors, wrote “The Year that Really Changed the World,” which Newsweek published in the November 16, 2009 issue.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.org/publication/19687/

“Ultimately the deepest causes of Soviet collapse were the decline of communist ideology and the failure of the Soviet economy. This would have happened even without Gorbachev.”

Joseph Nye, Harvard University distinguished professor and member of the Belfer Center’s board of directors, wrote “Who Caused the End of the Cold War?” which Huffington Post published on November 10, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.org/publication/19688/

“Everyone standing outside the center of the process can advocate their position: the bill must have this or that. Everyone standing outside the center can say if the president and speaker and majority leader and committee chairs had any backbone, they wouldn’t do the deals with the powerful interests and abandon vital principles. But the people at the center have to count — and get — the votes.”

Ben Heineman, a Belfer Center senior fellow, wrote “The Ugly End-Game,” which the Washington Post published in its “On Leadership” blog on the November 11, 2009 issue.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.org/publication/19693/

“The nature of discontent exhibited by Arab youth today is similar to that which drove the liberation movements of the Soviet Bloc a generation ago.”

Rami Khouri, a senior fellow with the Belfer Center’s Dubai Initiative and director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the American University of Beirut, wrote “The Wall Will Fall in the Arab World,” which Agence Global released on November 11, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2189

“The lessons from Waziristan do not neatly prescribe an obvious course of action, but they will help us to make better judgments about the costs, benefits, and means of success, and they deserve to be considered carefully. Most of all, they will remind us that Afghanistan is neither Vietnam nor Iraq — it is Afghanistan.”

William Tobey, a Belfer Center senior fellow, wrote “Afghanistan is Neither Vietnam Nor Iraq,” which Foreign Policy published on November 10, 2009.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.org/publication/19692/

“In fact, a significantly smaller U.S. presence in Afghanistan may paradoxically generate more anti-Americanism outside Afghanistan and ultimately more anti-Western terrorism than a more conventional military approach. This is because jihadi propaganda today relies on visually powerful symbols to mobilize people, and intermittent “surgical” strikes, and the casualties they cause, may create more such symbols than continuous conventional warfare.”

Thomas Hegghammer, an associate of the Belfer Center’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, wrote “The Big Impact of Small Footprints,” which Foreign Policy published in the November 11, 2009 issue.

For the full oped, go to: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19691/