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The Decline and Fall Of Europe

Fareed Zakaria February 16, 2006
In March 2000, EU leaders pledged to make the EU “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010.” That goal could be unrealistic. As policymakers debate the rise of Asia and its challenge to the US, Fareed Zakaria, a journalist who specializes in international relations, suggests that the major story of the decade may well be Europe’s economic decline. If current trends...

China, the WTO and Globalization

Dorothy Guerrero February 6, 2006
Most commentators, stunned at China’s growth, are interested in projecting how soon the country will overtake the US as the world’s largest economy. But for the Chinese people, the more pertinent forecast is when the benefits of WTO accession and foreign investment will make their way to them. China has succeeded in making itself a top destination for foreign direct investment by offering tax...

Fearing Social Unrest, China Tries to Rein in Unbridled Capitalism

January 24, 2006
China’s economy continues to grow at more than 9 percent per year, and Beijing fears that a sudden crash would bring immeasurable consequences. Low consumer spending, government planners worry, would provide little cushioning for a slump. At the same time, distressed debt, a flimsy infrastructure, and increasing air and water pollution present further incalculable costs of China’s rapid...

International Migration: Brain Drain or Brain Gain?

Caglar Ozden October 31, 2005
The surge in globalization since the end of World War II has been fueled chiefly by an international exchange of goods and capital rather than people. There are signs, however, that international migrants are playing an increasingly important role in globalization as the world enters the twenty-first century. What are the costs and benefits of this new wave of migration? The principal cost of...

It Takes Two Hands to Clap

Ahmed Rashid October 6, 2005
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 case. Despite Karzai's previous promises of reform and nation-building, conditions in Afghanistan...

Il faut etre uni pour reconstruire

Ahmed Rashid October 6, 2005

Borders of Tolerance

Christopher Caldwell October 3, 2005
At a time when Mexican immigration has penetrated every corner of the United States – and, many Americans feel, stolen millions of jobs from native citizens – the US public demands an ever-tougher stand against immigrants. Yet, paradoxically, Americans are also growing increasingly accustomed to living with Mexican immigrants – immigrants who are "Christian, familial, hard working farm...