CAMBRIDGE A specter is haunting Europe the specter of market confidence.

The sectarian rift between the Islamic Sunni and Shia sects is haunting Egyptian blogger D B Shobrawy's dreams.

The ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt haunts Barack Obama s United States.

But the Party is haunted by the Soviet precedent.

Each individual hunts alone, using her large eyes instead of chemical senses to find prey.

But that is a phantom risk, because it is the risk of deflation, not inflation, that haunts the PIIGS.

A specter is haunting the European Union s new members in Central Europe the specter of populist nationalism.

Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

The specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran s nuclear ambitions.

The reform and revival of the United Nations that we desire will be hollow as long as mass poverty, hunger and disease stalk many of our nations, and while the world remains pervasively unequal and, in many ways, unjust to the poor and the powerless.

The Chernobyl Forum findings should have brought relief, for they show that the specter haunting the region is not invincible radiation, but conquerable poverty.

Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification.

A second reason to fear a double dip recession concerns the fact that oil, energy, and food prices may be rising faster than economic fundamentals warrant, and could be driven higher by the wall of liquidity chasing assets, as well as by speculative demand. Last year, oil at 145 a barrel was a tipping point for the global economy, as it created a major income shock for the US, Europe, Japan, China, India, and other oil importing economies.

LONDON A specter is haunting the treasuries and central banks of the West the specter of secular stagnation. What if there is no sustainable recovery from the economic slump of 2008 2013?

The specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran s nuclear ambitions. The America Iran Israel triangle is where the clue to the problem and its possible solution lie.