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Justin Vaïsse is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe and co-author of Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France.
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Paul Hockenos, a writer living in Berlin, is author of Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany.
Michael Cox is professor of international politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Shanthi Kalathil is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Frances Seymour is director of the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute.
Guy Pfefferman is chief economist of the International Finance Corporation.
Benjamin Ryder Howe is associate editor of the Paris Review.
Traci Phillips is a consultant on private-sector development issues in Latin America.

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