Recent YaleGlobal Articles

Educating for the 21st Century – Part I

Sara Schlemm
 January 12, 2006
Two Yale students recently traveled to India and China, and in this series they write about how, through education, the two emerging countries are preparing for the 21st century. In the first part, Sara Schlemm explores why China seeks to raise the profile of its institutions by opening doors to...

The East Asia Summit: More Discord than Accord

Mohan Malik
 December 20, 2005
Some hoped that the recent East Asian Summit (EAS)—which included China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—would be the first step towards building an East Asian Community. Instead, EAS brought historical rivalries and...

Vietnam Goes Global

Jordan Ryan
 December 15, 2005
Although Vietnam had hoped to join the WTO before that body’s December ministerial meeting, an accession deal is not likely to finalized before mid-2006. Still, Vietnam’s eagerness to join the global trading system marks a noteworthy ideological shift for the ruling Communist Party, writes Jordan...

The WTO Can Promote Both Free Trade and Human Rights

Susan Ariel Aaronson
 December 13, 2005
As protesters flock to the WTO meeting in Hong Kong along with finance ministers and business leaders, many observers, including Susan Ariel Aaronson and Jamie M. Zimmerman, agree with their claims that the WTO should be seeking relevance beyond just trade liberalization. But a wider focus – on...

Russian Civil Society Will Find It Harder to Breathe

Liliana N. Proskuryakova
 December 8, 2005
Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of non-governmental orgnanizations (NGOs) have sprung up in Russia, enjoying a level of freedom unthinkable in the Soviet years. Yet following the pro-democratic revolutions in the former members of the Soviet Union, that freedom may be disappearing, says Liliana...

Is Strategy For Victory in Iraq an Empty Package?

Joan Johnson-Freese
 December 6, 2005
Nearly three years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the White House has released its plan to bring stability and democracy to Iraq. Yet, while that plan adequately addresses the role that Iraqis are to play in securing their country, it must now be followed by a strategy that addresses the roles...

Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within

Sadanand Dhume
 December 1, 2005
The common wisdom that democracy will help subdue the Islamic militantism is being questioned in Indonesia. While the world condemns the terrorists who have struck Indonesia in recent years, Sadanand Dhume reports that one of Indonesia's own political parties embraces those terrorists'...

HIV/AIDS: A Truly Global Response Needed For a Global Scourge

Michael Merson
 November 29, 2005
Two years after its first appearance in 1981, the AIDS virus had spread to 60 countries. It rapidly became a global epidemic that clearly required a global response. Organizing such a response, however, has proved to be difficult. The first fifteen years of the global struggle against AIDS were...

Americans are Tuning Out the World

Alkman Granitsas
 November 24, 2005
As the world becomes accustomed to the American way of life, Americans are tuning out the rest of the world. US citizens have paid less and less attention to foreign affairs since the 1970s, writes journalist Alkman Granitsas. The number of university students studying foreign languages has...

US-Vietnam: Discreet Friendship Under China’s Shadow

Raymond Burghardt
 November 22, 2005
After concerns that it had been distracted by the ongoing war in the Middle East, the Bush Administration is again focused on how to confront the rise of Chinese power in Asia. The US has found a strong bilateral relationship with Vietnam—one of Beijing’s longstanding rivals—to be instrumental in...

Asia’s Polite Reception To Bush Masks Declining US Influence

Daniel Sneider
 November 17, 2005
Following mass anti-American protests and blistering criticism at Mar del Plata, President Bush has found a bit of respite on his East Asian sojourn. But, as Daniel Sneider, columnist for the Mercury News, is quick to note, “beneath the polite appearance, however, there is no less a challenge to...

Why the French Love Their Farmers

Philip H. Gordon
 November 15, 2005
French President Jacques Chirac has admitted to a "profound malaise" in the country that led to the recent rioting, but French policy on farm subsidy is emerging as another source of malaise within the European Community. Policymakers all over the world are calling for great reductions in...

Should the US Sell Nuclear Technology to India? – Part II

Ashley J. Tellis
 November 10, 2005
When US President Bush signed a deal in July with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh allowing India access to civilian nuclear technology, naysayers complained that the administration had undermined the principles of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which India has not signed. In the part two...

Should the US Sell Nuclear Technology to India? – Part I

Robert Einhorn
 November 8, 2005
When India voted alongside the US in a recent IAEA Board resolution targeting Iran’s nuclear policies, governments around the world were stunned. It signaled that India had overturned its history of “non-alignment” and closed ranks with US foreign policy interests. The July 18 agreement between the...

Les Etats Unis devraient il vendre leur technologie nucleaire à l’Inde? Partie I

Robert Einhorn
 November 8, 2005

Summit Rhetoric Soars While Economy Sinks

Jeffrey E. Garten
 November 3, 2005
As the fourth annual Summit of the Americas get under way in Mar Del Plata, a pressing question lingers in the background: Are regional meetings truly worth the trouble? According to Jeffrey E. Garten, Juan Trippe professor in the practice of international trade and finance at The Yale School of...

Fate of the Farmers in Balance

Edward Gresser
 November 1, 2005
This December, the WTO is scheduled to convene in Hong Kong, in what could be its final opportunity to adopt the Doha reforms. The negotiators aim to open markets worldwide by cutting the subsidies and tariffs that heavily favor producers in Europe and the United States, but disagreements have...

Vers l’etablissement d’un Califat virtuel?

Peter Mandaville
 October 27, 2005

Toward a Virtual Caliphate

Peter Mandaville
 October 27, 2005
What does globalization mean for the politics of authority in the Islamic world? Talk of transnational Islamic movements challenging the status quo of Muslim nation-states often brings to mind the destructive extremism of al-Qaida. Peter Mandaville, however, reports that transnational networks of...

China, India Superpower? Not so Fast!

Pranab Bardhan
 October 25, 2005
Every day, countless commentators prophesize the ascendance of the world's next superpowers, China and India, the two "Asian giants" shaking off their ancient slumber and rising to the call of the 21st century. According to popular punditry, their place in the firmament of...
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