Recent suggestions by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that North Korea could be re-listed as a state sponsoring terrorism raises the prospect of further tightening the economic noose around the regime. North Korea has got nuclear weapons but needs funds to keep the regime afloat. Yet, normal...
With President Barack Obama poised to deliver his long-awaited message to the Islamic world, Osama Bin Laden is back in the news. What his anti-US message does not say is that the global jihadi movement has been adjusting its tactics. Online chatter and public statements by jihadists, Al Qaeda and...
The Obama administration’s first four months suggest the team is pro-trade and anti-protectionist – all to the positive, according to Edward Gresser, director at the Progressive Policy Institute. But lurking in the background are protectionist measures being promoted by various interest groups with...
North Korea’s decision to conduct another nuclear test is a new chapter in leader Kim Jong Il’s fight for recognition. But Dear Leader Kim’s gamble may push the US, South Korea, and Japan into taking a tougher stand rather than accede to further demands, according to Seoul-based journalist Shim Jae...
US healthcare costs are nearly double that of other developed nations, and are without any attendant benefits: US life expectancy is no greater. Hence, the burden to the government and corporations is clear and reform is needed, according to economist David Dapice. That this burden is growing...
India’s Congress Party’s big win in the recent election has as much significance for citizens of that country as it does for citizens of the world. It shows that democracy and development can go hand in hand, according author Sadanand Dhume. A country that is slated to grow above 5 percent amid the...
“全球明天协会”（Global Institute for Tomorrow）的首席执行官钱德兰•纳伊尔（Chandran Nair）认为，号召亚洲国家通过刺激消费把世界从金融危机中拯救出来是个错误的想法，而且还会造成环境灾难。假如亚洲在鱼、肉、汽车或住房等任何一种商品上的消费接近西方的水平，那将对环境造成难以置信的损害，同时商品价格也将以无法控制的速度上涨。对这种预测的一个常见的回答是，技术的发展和供求法则将拯救世界。但是这个答案却在暗中将决策中心转移到了亚洲这个没有追随西方消费经济模式的地区。一个以亚洲为中心的世界将给该地区的领导人提出诸多挑战：例如他们要告诉选民，他们虽然登上了国际舞台...
Calling on Asia to boost its consumption to pull the rest of the world out of the financial crisis is wrongheaded and could lead to an environmental disaster, according to Chandran Nair, CEO of the Global Institute for Tomorrow. If Asia were to approach the consumption levels of the West in just...
Cap-and-trade of carbon, preferred by governments, will not reverse global warming because it does not effectively reduce carbon emissions, according to NASA scientist Jim Hansen. Rather, it creates a situation ripe with opportunities to exploit loopholes, enrich traders, and lower public...
It is a welcome development that the US and President Obama personally are engaged in dealing with the worsening situation in Pakistan brought about by the Taliban insurgency. But such engagement does not go far enough, according to former US Ambassador to India Robert D. Blackwill. To be sure, the...
美国及奥巴马总统本人都在忙于处理由塔利班叛乱分子在巴基斯坦造成的日益恶化的局势，这一进展令人高兴。但是，美国驻印度前任大使罗伯特•D.布莱克威尔（Robert D. Blackwill）认为，美方的参与还远远不够。诚然，美国需要帮助确保巴基斯坦核武器的安全，并且阻止阿富汗变为恐怖分子的安全港。然而，就未来而言，更为基本的问题是美国需要同印度就如何在局势恶化的情形下对待巴基斯坦这一问题进行密切对话。现在需要两国进行更有深度的、也许还带点敏感的对话。这不只是因为一旦塔利班控制了巴基斯坦，美印两国会受到最大的影响，而且也是因为迄今为止这两个国家似乎都不愿意提出一个应急计划。当然，...
With the Pakistani army battling Islamist insurgents barely 100 miles from the capital, the world’s wary eyes are turned increasingly on the safety of the country's nuclear arsenal. In the first of our two part series on Pakistan and global security, non-proliferation expert Leonard Spector...
R. Nicholas Burns, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, analyzes President Obama’s ongoing challenges, including building a strong relationship with India and fighting two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in this interview with Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal. He also stresses...
Lax regulation may have been the lever that pushed the world into the present financial crisis, but the fulcrum was the twin excesses of over-financialization and over-globalization, according to UC Berkeley economist Ashok Bardhan. In the case of over-financialization, financial asset bubbles rose...
