Int'l Syndicate Bringing Op-Eds to the U.S.

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NEW YORK Since it started a dozen years ago in the Czech Republic, Project Syndicate has built a list of 287 "member" newspapers in 116 countries. But it was little known in the United States until this winter.

The syndicate -- which offers Op-Ed pieces by current and former heads of state, economists, activists, novelists, and other "thought leaders" -- has begun marketing its content to the American press.

"We think it's a good time to bring opinions from all corners of the globe to U.S. newspaper readers," said Nicolas Chatara-Morse, the syndicate's Prague-based vice president of development, during a stopover in E&P's New York City office. "There's a lot of conflict in the world today."

These papers -- as well as non-U.S. ones -- can choose from a menu of commentaries by political/diplomatic figures such as Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Jorge Castaneda, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Vaclav Havel; economists such as Jeffrey Sachs, George Soros, and Joseph Stiglitz; novelists such as Umberto Eco, Nadime Gordimer, and Arundhati Roy; academics such as Nina Khrushcheva, Joseph Nye, and Peter Singer; activists such as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe and Human Rights Watch director Xiao Qiang of China; and many others.

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