In the third of a four-part series on the world after Bush, Azmi Bishara sees discord emerging, but no universal blueprint that would ground a new Cold War between the West and the rest

Barack Obama is a symbol of hope not only for America, but the post-9/11 world, writes Mona Makram Ebeid

The Republican campaign seems to be benefiting from, and stoking, religious defamation and hate speech, writes Abdus Sattar Ghazali

The US financial crisis, based on and accentuating a catalogue of neglect, blind greed and misguided policy, may propel the world's most developed state into oblivion, writes Gamil Mattar

Despite its disastrous policies of late, the world still needs US engagement and leadership, writes Ayman Al-Amir