As US President Barack Obama travels in Asia, this YaleGlobal series analyzes US foreign-policy initiatives emerging from a packed schedule with stops in four nations. The tour began in India. In the first article of the series, Ashok Malik explains how Obama shares the goals of his predecessor,...
向天空喷出颗粒物质以阻挡阳光，向海洋排放化学物来促进浮游生物的生长和碳吸收，只是地球工程技术可能缓解气候变化影响的两个例子。然而东南亚研究院（Institute of South East Asian Studies）的高级研究员迈克•理查森（Michael Richardson）却警告说，这些目前仍处于测试阶段的干预措施很可能只能解决燃眉之急，且代价昂贵。该技术也可能跨越国界、破坏栖息地、让某些地方变得过冷或过热、对依赖干净的天空和海洋的某些产业造成干扰，并且产生其它意想不到的后果。未经检验的排放最终要耗费全球GDP的5%。在下个世纪，...
Spewing particles into the skies to block sunlight, releasing chemicals into the oceans to encourage plankton growth and carbon absorption, are just two examples of how geoengineering technologies might ease impacts of climate change. The interventions, still being tested, would be temporary and...
战略与国际研究中心南亚项目（the South Asia Program with the Center for Strategic and International Studies）主任特里斯塔•C•谢弗（Teresita C. Schaffer）指出，贸易增长和对全球治理的迫切需要已使美印关系由双边性的转为战略性的。在仅仅十年时间内，两国就从没什么安全关系转为了常规军事演习与磋商。在稳定的阿富汗、解除核武的伊朗、以及中国与印度在亚洲主要国家中和平崛起等问题上，两国都有着共同的目标。印度入选联合国安理会（the UN Security Council）两年期席位，...
Increased trade and an urgent need for global governance have shifted the nature of the US-India relationship from bilateral to strategic in nature, explains Teresita C. Schaffer, director for the South Asia Program with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In just a decade, a...
Modern global crises – economic, environmental, security or other forms– can strike with sudden force, quickly leap frogging borders. The world desperately needs leaders to manage the response or better yet prevent problems in the first place. This YaleGlobal series examines the potential of the...
Many anticipate China and India, with their rapid rise to power through globalization, to adopt global leadership roles. Yet expectations that either nation will lead the way in resolving global problems may be too high and too premature, suggests this YaleGlobal series. Historically a crossroads...
Evidence of rapid climate change abounds in scientific research and routine observations. Yet policymakers are slow to act. Legislators and researchers attending international gatherings such as the 10th Conference of Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan label climate change...
Manufacturing and IT firms slice their work into parts, much like the chop shops that collect old cars, breaking them down into parts for resale and higher profits. Mangers divide tasks, sending work to points of the globe where costs and skills are most efficient for each task at hand. Farok J....
More goes online in a day than one person could read in a lifetime, and that includes some of the million books released each year by publishers around the globe. This YaleGlobal series explores the challenges for authoritarian regimes in monitoring the internet’s new levels of information overload...
When the internet arrived, China eagerly grasped the tool for joining global business, connecting its citizens and influencing attitudes. But China now finds that it’s impossible for any nation to both use the internet to influence the globe and restrict messages to a single ideology. This two-part...
Global recession struck in late 2008, and high levels of personal and public debt complicated reviving the US economy and consumer spending. Increasing exports is the fastest, most logical alternative for boosting economic growth and reducing unemployment. In January 2010, President Barack Obama...
Global media united in covering the successful rescue of 33 miners, trapped since early August. Chile’s president and major mining companies quickly took charge over a small, near-bankrupt mining company, transforming the rescue into an international competition of sorts. The media reports...
Sovereign wealth funds are estimated to manage close to $4 trillion of assets. European governments are increasingly concerned about such powerful investors, the bulk of which are from Asia and the Middle East, showing interest in their defense industries especially at a time when Europe must...
A poster child of successful globalization, China has recently taken some knocks from the process. This YaleGlobal series explores how China’s global connections brought prosperity but some unpleasant surprises as well. By leveraging its economic might and organizing power of the state, China has...
Globalization is a two-way street. Countries cannot endlessly send products out into the world and build up reserves without a push back – benefiting from the world without giving back something – explains this two-part YaleGlobal series. China’s thriving economy depends on exports. By holding down...
