The Foreign Policy Centre also calls for the Commonwealth to become a properly organised and policed organisation, with transparent rules of membership.

ECONOMIST: The Commonwealth

Mark Leonard works for the London-based Foreign Policy Centre.

BBC: Europeans on Europe

Some kidnap groups may have political beliefs, but the Foreign Policy Centre's Rachel Briggs said the driving force for all of them - like any multinational company - is trade, reputation and the bottom line.

BBC: The kidnapping business

In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.

ECONOMIST: The EU presidency

As far as the author is concerned, Mr Clinton epitomises woolly-headed liberalism and arrogant over-confidence in his attempts to put the expansion of democracy and the spread of market economics at the centre of foreign policy.

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But nobody, the government now says, thought to mention Sandline's activities, or the investigation, to a foreign secretary known throughout his department for having put control of arms sales at the centre of his newly ethical foreign policy.

ECONOMIST: Ethics man

Dmitry Trenin, head of the Moscow Carnegie Centre, argues that Russian foreign policy under Mr Putin has always been more defensive than offensive.

ECONOMIST: Russia, NATO and Europe

The show found that four of the supposed abductors where ordinary Wazir Pashtun from FATA who were promised by Mortenson to build schools in the war-raged Waziristan FATA. One of the alleged was Mansoor Khan Masud, who runs FATA Research Centre, Islamabad and also writes for American Foreign Policy Magazine, who says that Mortenson was their guest.

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In Israel, left-of-centre Ha'aretz says that Chavez's foreign policy was "one big provocation".

BBC: World media examine Chavez legacy