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Project Syndicate is an international not-for-profit newspaper syndicate
Print syndication

Print syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, column , or comic strips are made available to newspapers, magazines, and websites....
 and association of newspapers. It distributes commentaries and analysis ("opinion pieces") by experts, activists, Nobel laureates, statesman, economists, political thinkers, business leaders and academics to its member publications, and encourages networking among its members.

It is based in Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
.

It currently consists of approximately 390 newspapers in 145 countries, with a total circulation of nearly 50 million copies, making it the world's largest commentary focused syndicate.

It relies primarily on contributions from its members in developed countries, who make up approximately 60% of its membership base, and has received grants from the Open Society Foundation, The Politiken
Politiken

Politiken is a Danish language daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.Politiken comes second among Danish newspapers in terms of circulated copies, 126,380 ....
 Foundation in Denmark, Die Zeit
Die Zeit

Die Zeit is a Germany nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism. With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper....
 Ebelin, and Gerd Bucerius Foundation, which together allow it to offer its services free to newspapers in developing countries where journalistic resources may not be readily available.

Project Syndicate translates its columns from English into seven languages: Arabic, Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
, Czech
Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 and Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 and is published in numerous other languages.








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Project Syndicate is an international not-for-profit newspaper syndicate
Print syndication

Print syndication is a form of syndication in which news articles, column , or comic strips are made available to newspapers, magazines, and websites....
 and association of newspapers. It distributes commentaries and analysis ("opinion pieces") by experts, activists, Nobel laureates, statesman, economists, political thinkers, business leaders and academics to its member publications, and encourages networking among its members.

It is based in Prague
Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, Czech Republic
Czech Republic

The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....
.

It currently consists of approximately 390 newspapers in 145 countries, with a total circulation of nearly 50 million copies, making it the world's largest commentary focused syndicate.

It relies primarily on contributions from its members in developed countries, who make up approximately 60% of its membership base, and has received grants from the Open Society Foundation, The Politiken
Politiken

Politiken is a Danish language daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus.Politiken comes second among Danish newspapers in terms of circulated copies, 126,380 ....
 Foundation in Denmark, Die Zeit
Die Zeit

Die Zeit is a Germany nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism. With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper....
 Ebelin, and Gerd Bucerius Foundation, which together allow it to offer its services free to newspapers in developing countries where journalistic resources may not be readily available.

Project Syndicate translates its columns from English into seven languages: Arabic, Chinese
Chinese language

Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages....
, Czech
Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
 and Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
 and is published in numerous other languages.

Notable contributors

Past and present Project Syndicate contributors include: Joseph Stiglitz, Joseph Nye
Joseph Nye

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory Neoliberalism in international relations developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence....
, Jeffrey Sachs
Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey David Sachs is an United States economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia's Columbia Mailman School of Public Health....
, Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer was Germany Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the government of Gerhard Schr?der from 1998 to 2005....
, Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel

V?clav Havel is a Czechs playwright, writer and politician. He was the tenth and last List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia of Czechoslovakia and the first List of presidents of the Czech Republic ....
, Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is an United States author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the Third-wave feminism....
, Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik is a prominent Turkey economist and Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, teaching in the School's MPA/ID Program....
, Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991....
, Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
, Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is an India diplomat and writer who has been known mostly for his having worked as an Indian diplomat at the United Nations. In 2006, he was the official candidate of India for the office of United Nations Secretary-General, and came second out of seven official candidates in the race....
, Ban Ki Moon, Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff

Kenneth Saul "Ken" Rogoff is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University....
, Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller

Robert James "Bob" Shiller is an United States economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a Fellow at the Yale International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management....
, Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini is a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University and chairman of RGE Monitor, an economic consultancy firm....
, Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein

Martin Stuart "Marty" Feldstein is a Conservatism in the United States United States of America economics. He is currently the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and the president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research ....
, Jorge Castaneda
Jorge Castañeda

Jorge Germ?n Casta?eda Gutman is a Mexico politician and academic who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs .Casta?eda was born in Mexico City....
, Richard Haass, Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard

Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister of France under Fran?ois Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Agreements regarding the status of New Caledonia....
, George Soros
George Soros

George Soros is an United States currency Speculation, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and activism.Soros is estimated to be worth around $9.0 billion in net worth; he is ranked by Forbes as the List of billionaires ....
, Robert Skidelsky, Chris Patten
Chris Patten

Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a prominent British Conservative politician and a Patron of the Tory Reform Group....
, Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma is an United Kingdom-Netherlands writer and academic. Much of his work focuses on Asian culture, particularly that of 20th-century Japan....
, Bjorn Lomborg and Peter Singer
Peter Singer

Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian Philosophy. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics , University of Melbourne....
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