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Tough Road Ahead

Nayan Chanda November 7, 2008
The US, as the world’s largest economy, is inextricably linked into the global economy. Foreign observers anticipate a new spirit of cooperation emerging from Washington, and Barack Obama, as the next US president, must remind Americans that their ongoing prosperity has been rooted in the nation’s engagement with the world, notes Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal editor, in his column for Businessworld....

The World Looks to Obama – Part I

Bruce Stokes November 5, 2008
Tackling global challenges is nearly impossible when the world’s sole superpower – the largest economy, the largest user of energy, the most powerful nation technologically – does not pitch in. A YaleGlobal series analyzes foreign reaction to the US election and explores how President-elect Barack Hussein Obama is likely to respond to the global expectations from his presidency. In the first...

Americans Hold Our Futures in Their Hands

Khalaf Ahmed Al Habtoor November 3, 2008
US voters in some states already wait in long lines to cast votes in a historic election, and the rest of the world can only wait and watch. The next US president will confront immense challenges and responsibility. “The person they decide upon this time literally has the power to make or break the futures of not only Americans but billions of their fellow global citizens,” writes Khalaf Ahmed Al...

Foreign Policy Challenges for the New US President – Part II

Joseph Chamie November 3, 2008
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has remained at center stage of the world's attention for a half century, with permanent resolution proving an elusive goal. In the second part of a two-part series examining foreign-policy challenges for the next US president, demographer Joseph Chamie shows how that conflict might present itself in the coming years based on population trends of Israel and...

Islamic Challenge to Indonesia’s Democracy

Sadanand Dhume October 15, 2008
Gains by radical parties around the globe highlight democracy’s ongoing vulnerability to anti-democratic movements. Indonesia – with its free press, stable economy, free elections, tolerant and inclusive policy – is no exception. But in local Indonesian politics, the radical Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has made dramatic gains, with extremists pressing for dress codes, Koran reading...

Pakistan Democracy: An Interview with Husain Haqqani

October 15, 2008
With a democratic government now in place in Islamabad, Pakistan has set out to redefine goals for its people and communicate for greater predictability and security. In this interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda, Husain Haqqani – ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, as well as leading journalist and former advisor to Pakistani prime ministers including the late Benazir Bhutto –...

American Exception: US Court Is Now Guiding Fewer Nations

Adam Liptak September 23, 2008
American legal influence is waning as foreign courts pay less attention to US court decisions, suggests Adam Liptak in an article for the New York Times. One reason is that Supreme Court justices are wary about citing decisions from foreign courts. As a result, the US loses one of its great bully pulpits, notes one scholar. Intense debate is underway among legal scholars about whether the US...