Recent YaleGlobal Articles

Locked in a food shortage approaching crisis proportions – which reportedly caused two million deaths in the past five years – the government of Kim Jong-il has been wooing neighboring China and its brethren to the South for more far-reaching aid. As Seoul-based journalist Shim Jae Hoon reports,...

Despite a tentative start, the EU entry negotiations for Turkey are a momentous event for the continent. In a two-part series, YaleGlobal examines the ramifications of the Turkey-EU negotiations. In the first installment, journalist Shada Islam explores the positive potential of the talks for both...

Two days after Afghanistan's parliamentary elections in September, President Hamid Karzai boasted that his country "now has a constitution, a president, a parliament, and a nation fully participating in its destiny." But as journalist Ahmed Rashid writes, that is not exactly the...

Nearly two decades after fears of a Japanese industrial takeover reached fever pitch in the United States, expansionist moves by Chinese corporations have triggered alarms around the world. Last summer, when Chinese companies CNOOC and Haier attempted to buy Unocal and Maytag, respectively,...

On September 20 – one day after committing to halt its nuclear weapons program and rejoin the Nonproliferation Treaty – the North Korean foreign ministry issued a statement essentially rescinding its position. By refusing to abandon its weapons program until it receives a civilian light-water...

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a huge mandate in last Sunday's elections, but for reasons that differ from many commentators' suggestions. By calling the elections following the rejection of his post-office privatization bill, Koizumi artfully framed the debate as...

Once isolated as a member of the infamous "Axis of Evil," Iran now has a growing number of friends in the higher councils of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Author of a new book on Iran, Dilip Hiro argues that the protracted negotiations surrounding the country's...

Upon its 1967 founding, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stated its collective goals, wherein members, "through joint efforts and sacrifices, secure for their peoples and for posterity the blessings of peace, freedom, and prosperity." Unfortunately, in Burma – one of...