The European Union's achievements are clear - and the Nobel committee has highlighted them.
BBC: Nobel Peace Prize: Surprise in Brussels at award for EU
In other words, the Nobel Committee really, really likes Barack Obama and what he stands for.
What does the Nobel Committee really wish to achieve, awarding the EU the prize?
Gore's comments came hours after the Nobel committee announced he would share the award with the U.N.
Many governments and audiences in the developing world do not share the same values as the Nobel committee.
Well, you're very kind to do that, but I know the Nobel committee gets a lot of nominations.
The Nobel Committee has again awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to an economist who helped shatter the Keynesian consensus.
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The Nobel committee must have known it would be laying itself open to criticism, accusations of naivete and even ridicule.
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Why did the Nobel committee give the peace prize to someone who hasn't even been in office for a year?
But it seems the Nobel committee might have overlooked a few people in awarding credit for a currently peaceful Europe.
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Put it another way, this is not one of those times when the Nobel committee has tried to 'capture the mood'.
Was this the Nobel committee's down payment, in an effort to encourage the president to actually achieve something in foreign policy?
Crucially, recipients earn the prize for inspired contributions that have yet to be experimentally verified, a tactic the Nobel committee eschews.
While the Nobel committee deliberated, the IMF hinted at some of these challenges in its recent global financial stability report.
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Despite the Nobel committee's announcement that Iraq will not show up at the ceremony, an official said that might not be true.
Although the initial discovery happened 25 years ago, Greider knew there was always a chance the Nobel Committee could recognize her accomplishments.
The Nobel committee evidently wants to encourage him but it might have been wiser to hold judgment until he has achieved more.
Without doubt, the prospects for peace are now much brighter than when Northern Ireland last attracted the attention of the Nobel committee.
Instead, the Nobel committee said the EU had won the peace prize for its role in uniting the continent over the last six decades.
BBC: Nobel Peace Prize: Surprise in Brussels at award for EU
In awarding the prize, the Nobel Committee stated that democracy and peace cannot be achieved unless women have the same opportunities and rights as men.
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Whatever you think about their approach, the Nobel committee has decided to honour Sargent and Sims for their "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy".
When the Nobel committee was not willing to follow his suggestion of the creation of a new Nobel Prize for Agriculture, Dr. Borlaug created his own award.
The Nobel committee seems to be highlighting the wide range of ideas and skills that comprise modern economics: a healthy equilibrium, you might say, between poets and plumbers.
Williamson's work examines why large corporations tend to arise -- and why they do not -- based on the cost and complexity of transactions, according to the Nobel committee.
The Nobel committee's decision, like earlier awards to Amartya Sen and Daniel Kahneman, is a welcome shot in the arm for research that crosses disciplinary boundaries in the social sciences.
The Nobel committee, which said it had sent out 65 invitations to embassies in Oslo, counted 19 countries that had declined so far -- including China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran.
And so the caller broke the Nobel committee's iron-clad rules of secrecy: in fact, he confessed, he was trying to find Dr Buck to tell her that she had won the Nobel prize.
This is hardly the first time that the Nobel Committee has bestowed unwarranted praise and resources and highly publicized credibility on characters whose contribution to real international peace is, at best, debatable.
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Barroso said that in awarding the prize to the EU, the Nobel Committee was saying that the European project should be cherished, both within and beyond Europe.
This is hardly the first time that the Nobel Committee has bestowed unwarranted praise and resources -- and highly publicized credibility -- on characters whose contribution to real international peace is, at best, debatable.
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