An influential foreign-affairs columnist has warned her readers that younger Albanians are keener on Western Europe than on their Ottoman heritage.

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The two-time Pulitzer winner is joining Reuters as a columnist on foreign affairs and globalization.

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Such voices - most strongly represented this week by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman - have tried to blame the failure of Obama's attempt to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on Israel's alleged intransigence.

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You can compare him with a man whose views on foreign policy and American democracy were very similar, the columnist Walter Lippmann.

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Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, argues that, if they want to have a successful foreign policy, presidents need to have a close personal bond with their secretaries of state: witness Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger or George Bush senior and James Baker.

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Two days after his election, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius gave a sense of the direction in which Obama will likely take US foreign policy.

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