Recent YaleGlobal Articles

India – A Silicon Valley for Emerging Markets?

Dinesh C. Sharma
 June 4, 2015
Emerging markets represent 80 percent of the globe’s population and more than 50 percent of its GDP. So many consumers living in the emerging economies are digitally deprived, yet eager to explore the internet. India is well positioned to become the next hub for internet development. “Capitalizing...

Nepal Earthquake: Prelude to Bigger Disaster?

Alark Saxena
 June 2, 2015
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, killing 8,800, injuring thousands more and leaving many homeless. The quake and series of aftershocks also left property damage and devastated communities. International relief agencies rushed to the scene, but researchers warn that such...

China’s New Silk Road: Implications for the US

Shuaihua Wallace Cheng
 May 28, 2015
China’s response to the so-called US pivot to Asia is to expand influence in Asia. Known as the “One Belt, One Road,” the modern-day Silk Road network “will not only enhance ‘five connections’ – trade, infrastructure, investment, capital and people – it will create a community with ‘shared...

India’s Modi Turns the Tables on China

Harsh V. Pant
 May 26, 2015
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in office for just a year, approaches China with new confidence. During a visit to China, the prime minister was candid about India’s strategic distrust and its determination to build new ties with other powers including the United States, Japan and Australia....

China’s Factory Workers Are Becoming More Restive

Anita Chan
 May 21, 2015
Migrant workers in South China are increasingly more assertive. A once relatively compliant workforce is staging more and bigger strikes prompting authorities to escalate suppression. Anita Chan, author and research professor, analyzes the internal and external forces behind the unrest. Labor...

Headwinds as the US Moves Toward Secretive Trade Agreement

David Dapice
 May 19, 2015
The very notion of global trade would suggest openness – and certainly a lack of secrets. But the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a new kind of agreement, one that pushes deep integration and focuses on regulations for corporations as well as lower tariffs, explains economist David Dapice. Twelve...

UN Credibility on Trial in Cambodia

John D. Ciorciari
 May 14, 2015
The Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, killing more than two million, displacing and ruining the lives of millions more. A hybrid tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, organized by the United Nations, was established for trying those most responsible for...

Future of Two Unions, the EU and the UK, Hangs in Balance

Alistair Burnett
 May 12, 2015
Voters in the United Kingdom surprised the world by re-electing Prime Minister David Cameron, whose ability to win concessions from the European Union could affect Britain’s influence abroad. “The Conservatives went into the election promising to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU and...

High Costs of Cheap Oil

Deepak Gopinath
 May 7, 2015
Consumers are delighted by low oil prices and economists anticipate increased global growth. But the low prices are locking many industries into infrastructure that relies on fossil fuels. “High-carbon infrastructure – power plants, pipelines, factories, inefficient buildings, roads and transport...

Xi Jinping’s High-Risk Policy Needs a National Security Commission

David M. Lampton
 May 5, 2015
Governments tend to rely on national security apparatuses to protect those in power as much as the country at large. President Xi Jinping assumed leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in late 2012, and since then, indicated an expectation for increasing the nation’s global influence. Such...

Vietnam and US Find Strategic Common Ground

Murray Hiebert
 April 30, 2015
North Vietnamese troops met little resistance in taking control of Saigon on April 30, 1975, after the United States rejected extending further military aid to the South Vietnamese after years of intervention. By 1979, Chinese troops invaded Vietnam from the north. All sides suffered tens of...

Will the Real Iran Please Stand Up?

Robert A. Manning
 April 28, 2015
The nations negotiating to curb Iran’s nuclear research program are divided over strategy, including the intensity of inspections and the schedule for lifting sanctions. Iran is divided, too, explains Robert A. Manning, a senior fellow of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security at the...

Rebalancing the Middle East

Emma Sky
 April 23, 2015
The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 empowered Iran as did the abrupt American departure in 2011. Since then the region has unraveled. Emma Sky, author and senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute, suggests that US regional policy narrowly focuses on three objectives: the defeat of the...

Who Owns The Past?

James Cuno
 April 21, 2015

High Debt and Low Oil Prices Threaten Canada’s Globalized Economy

Vikram Mansharamani
 April 20, 2015
The world’s 11th largest economy does not rank among the world’s 30 most populous countries. Despite handily managing the global debt crisis after 2007, Canada’s economy is vulnerable. Volatility brought by globalization and interdependency may bear part of the blame, explains Vikram Mansharamani...

European Union Divided Over Greek Bailout

Chris Miller
 April 16, 2015
Fervent democracy at the national level is hampering monetary policymaking for the broader European Union in bringing quick end to the Greek debt crisis, explains Chris Miller, a Yale doctoral candidate and research associate at the Hoover Institution. Greek voters resent austerity measures imposed...

Russia’s Turbulence Could Drive Sustainable Development

Anastasia Okorochkova
 April 14, 2015
Falling oil prices and western sanctions have led to hard economic times for Russians. But lingering economic crisis can also allow a country new opportunity to regroup and reform, innovating and transforming the economy. Paradoxically, the long-running crisis could drive Russia to end its...

Nations Line Up to Join China-Led Infrastructure Bank

Will Hickey
 April 9, 2015
The world’s most populous nation has a sizable sovereign fund and is on track to surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy. “The Chinese development model of technology transfer and infrastructure development, including highways, ports, railways, has brought millions out of poverty...

China-Pakistan: A Strategic Relationship in the Shadows

Andrew Small
 April 7, 2015
China and Pakistan share a border of just 523 kilometers but are the strongest of neighbors. An on-again off-again trip to Pakistan by China’s President Xi Jinping does not tell the real story. “This is a relationship where the public theatrics have generally been a poor indicator of the underlying...

Iran Deal Reached, Struggle For Acceptance Begins

Dilip Hiro
 April 2, 2015
The cliff-hanging negotiations over curbing Iran's nuclear program have ended with preliminary agreement. Iran negotiators had to contend with six powers that rarely agree - the US, the UK, China, France, Russia and Germany - as well as internal US polarization. “The hard-knuckle bargaining...
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