Sadly, there doesn't seem to be an answer in the horizon.

So, what does the looming US withdrawal mean for India s role in Afghanistan? India has largely focused its aid efforts on building institutional capacity and developing human resources, so that Afghans can stand on their own feet before long.

Other constraints loom as well. Rapid economic expansion implies that supplies of energy and raw materials will increasingly limit potential growth.

But there is good news around the corner really good news.

The future's in the air

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

This is probably the skyline that most of you know about Doha.

What we've done is we've pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society.

Change, however, was in the air.

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

A major slowdown seems to be looming.

At the very same time that Bush was waving from the stands, Russia was invading Georgia, America s closest partner in the Caucasus.

BARCELONA In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional politics, on the other, has loomed large.

Nor does a global solution to the challenge of climate change appear any closer.

And Europe would avert the looming depression.

The comprehensive peace agreement for Sudan signed in 2005 turned out to be less comprehensive than envisaged, and its provisions may yet bear the seeds of a full scale return to war between north and south.

Alas, that prospect is not yet even a glimmer on the horizon.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

Truly effective global governance is the strategic horizon that humanity must pursue today with all its energy.

There may be light at the end of the tunnel no depression and financial meltdown.

But, at least in the short term, there seems to be no alternative to Calderón s strategy.

Photographs floating online show us a snowman waving the IS flag

A seismic shift is at hand, and America s recent fiscal follies may well be the tipping point.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us.

A sea change in drug policy seems to be in the making.

That inattention will end soon a decision about the province s fate is looming.

But China s looming slowdown is likely to be both manageable and welcome.

GENEVA As post revolution Libya looks ahead, Iraq looms as a perilous example.

Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight.

Last year, Chinese GDP growth reached a 13 year low, and no upturn is in sight.

True, there is no inflation problem in the short run, but the ECB s monetary policy focuses on the medium term.

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But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.

In this sense, the looming prospect of a full blown Italian debt crisis could prove beneficial by focusing European minds.

To be sure, Germany is justified in rejecting narrow minded calls by France and Italy for unconditional fiscal expansion. After all, fiscal stimulus can work only if it supports private investment and is accompanied by much more ambitious structural reforms the kind of reforms that France and Italy are currently resisting.

Markets seem to believe that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the economy and for the battered profits of corporations and financial firms.

In 1994, when I became State Secretary for Financial Affairs in Sweden s Ministry of Finance, recovery appeared to be on the horizon, following the abolition of the fixed exchange rate, the ensuing sharp depreciation of the Krona, and lower interest rates.

Most Europeans prefer to ignore the looming challenge of radical policy reform, owing to the decline in living standards that it implies.

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With a general election looming in the months ahead, the air is already thick with political recrimination. The Mars mission if it succeeds is one thing that can literally rise above it all.

With the specter of strategic disequilibrium looming large in Asia, investments to help build geopolitical stability have become imperative.

But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.

Housing prices are being propped up temporarily by myriad subsidies, while a commercial real estate tsunami looms.