...Simon Serfaty The Arab Spring will sorely test the ability of Europe, mired in financial woes and institutional confusion, to help shape events in its near abroad. 118 PERSPECTIVE In 2011, the long-awaited Arab Spring reas-serted the Greater Middle East as history s geo-graphic pivot a region...

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...Dick Ahlstrom Paul Ehrlich held that voracious consumption would leave the West reeling when essential resources ran out. Julian Simon believed that people should be allowed to consume as they like because they can rely on technology or ingenuity to find a way forward. Both were too constricted...