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- Ending the Iraq War
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- Une Intifada des Arabes d’Israël?
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- Bertie Ahern, "Ireland’s Message to the World – Interdependence, not Isolation" (2017)
- Olusegun Obasanjo, "Present State of the World" (2016)
- Margaret Jay, "The Disunited Kingdom: Will British politics change our role in the world?" (2015)
- Thomas S. Axworthy, "Remarks to Canadians for a Nuclear Weapons Convention" (2014)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, "Laudatio on Helmut Schmidt" (2014)
- Abdel Salam Majali, "Uprisings in the Arab World: The Reality Beyond the Failure of Politics and Policies" (2013)
- Goh Chok Tong, "Present State of the World" (2012)
- Thomas S. Axworthy, "Revisiting the Hiroshima Declaration" (2012)
- Malcolm Fraser, "Australia-US Relations in the ‘Asia Century’: To avoid unnecessary and ill-advised conflict" (2012)
- Malcolm Fraser, "Politics, Independence and the National Interest" (2012)
- Jean Chrétien, "Reward and Risk: Observations on the Present State of the World" (2011)
- Malcolm Fraser, "Present State of the World" (2010)
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- Jean Chrétien, "Keeping our heads above water, at home and abroad" (2011)
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