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Claude Smadja: The Tehran deadline

Negotiating a sustainable nuclear compromise with Iran is not getting any easier

Claude Smadja: The great oil price game

Will oil prices continue to decrease, and will Saudi Arabia then step in to arrest their decline?

Claude Smadja: Look at Europe, and worry

As long as stringent austerity is enforced on countries in crisis, economic stagnation will endure

Claude Smadja: ISIS' clear and present danger

Barack Obama cannot avoid taking real action against the ISIS

Claude Smadja: India's open for business again

A careful balancing between the need for growth and fiscal consolidation may attract global businesses

Claude Smadja: India's moment, at long last?

The private sector - domestic and foreign - is ready to play ball with the new prime minister

Claude Smadja: A warning for Europe

The political sustainability of faceless, ever more intrusive European integration is now clearly in question

Claude Smadja: Trying the 'pivot', again

On his trip to Asia, Barack Obama will have to counter the impression that the US is an increasingly reluctant superpower

Claude Smadja: Vladimir Putin's Ukraine gamble

Russia knew that Europe and the US would not be able to react to a de facto takeover of Ukraine

Claude Smadja: The challenges of China's strongman

Xi Jinping has accumulated great power, but he faces trials that are just as great

Claude Smadja: The year the West lost leadership

For the US and Europe, 2013 was a bad year

Claude Smadja: Failing to curb Iran

The deal with Iran does not address any of the major issues thrown up by Tehran's ambitions

Claude Smadja: Could India steal a page from Mexico?

Mexico's politics are as divisive as India's, but major parties are collaborating on reforms

Claude Smadja: Europe - Back to crunch time

Angela Merkel's re-election changes nothing, and Europe's economy is still being destroyed

Egypt's story has just begun

The Arab Spring is not dead; we are beginning a long, arduous, messy and bloody process

Mr Abe's 'great country'

The author explains why Japan is - or may be - back, and why it matters

Syria, to the bitter end

Arguments for direct US military intervention in Syria are just not strong enough

Lessons from Dhaka

The Rana Plaza tragedy might have a significant impact on globalisation's race to the bottom

Europe's dangerous illusions

The calm is deceptive - chaos can erupt in Europe again any moment

The most dangerous gap of all

Both authoritarian and democratic governments are growing more distant from their angry citizens