"Now that we no longer have that capacity," he wonders, "how can we continue to produce that all-important sense of optimism so the city can continue to evolve?" One of the most important interlocutors in the book's dynamic dialogue is the Amsterdam photographer Iwan Baan.
Hafiz Pashayev, well known in Washington, has been an important interlocutor for the U.S. Embassy in Baku and official Americans traveling to Azerbaijan.
Nevertheless, he has been received in both Paris and Rome as an important interlocutor for the west as it tries to bring the civil war to an end and to control the flow of migrants from the Libyan coast into Italy.
Jang had been an important interlocutor with China.
Germany has long been viewed as an important interlocutor with Russia on foreign policy issues.
Cooler relations with Turkey are costing Europe influence in the Arab world, where Turkey, a NATO member bordered by Iran, Iraq and Syria, is fast becoming an important interlocutor for the West.
If Donald Trump is elected, European democrats may increasingly turn to Canada as an important interlocutor across the Atlantic.
Mr Obasanjo, a former military ruler turned democrat, has also proved an important interlocutor between the Commonwealth and the increasingly dictatorial Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe.The immediate cause of the violence in Lagos was the alleged desecration of a mosque by a man said to have defecated outside it.
If Mr Ramos-Horta loses the presidency, Timor-Leste will be deprived of both an important interlocutor with the outside world and a constructive internal critic.
The subject of distance, on which artist Joseph Beuys, critic James Huneker, Max Stirner, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan are important interlocutors, functions as an unrestrictive organizing principle in an associational history of modernity.
