We need all of their voices to reverberate strongly, shaping our thinking and our policies.

If Kibaki rejects an independent recount, his refusal will reverberate around Kenya and the world. Those who ignore voters should quickly learn that they have no place to hide.

Eastern Europe has its problems, which are likely to impact Western Europe s highly leveraged banks. In a globalized world, problems in one part of the system quickly reverberate elsewhere.

On May 11, some 40 50 million voters will elect a new national assembly. The outcome, preceded by a spike in extremist violence, is likely to reverberate far and wide.

The political consequences of the US economy s renewed strength will reverberate worldwide. But maintaining this economic revival will require greater reluctance to intervene in foreign conflicts or engage in new wars.

Its decisions about interest rates and financial regulation reverberate through global markets and affect millions of lives. Yet its governance structure is of another age antiquated, increasingly problematic, and urgently in need of sensible reform.

The issue then becomes one that has been avoided in Bangladesh for too long whether claiming to act according to the requirements of piety provides an exemption for murder. The outcome of the standoff in Dhaka should provide an answer in Bangladesh, and its implications could reverberate far and wide.

Furthermore, the disintegration that the region has already witnessed and will undoubtedly continue to witness will reverberate beyond the Arab map with the creation of a sovereign Kurdish state. Such a state, whether exisiting de facto or with widespread formal recognition, will have an ever lasting effect on the boundaries of the Arab world (Syria and Iraq) and of the wider Middle East (Turkey and Iran).

Suspending the trade talks would be folly, not just in terms of the regional impact, but also because the TTIP should be an exercise in rule making that echoes globally. The current diplomatic crisis, too, is an opportunity to ensure that transatlantic discussions about privacy and surveillance reverberate in a multilateral setting seizing it would represent a small but significant contribution to the strategic vision that has been sorely lacking for the last quarter century.