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The Cost of an Empire

Jeffrey E. Garten April 2, 2003
In this article, Jeffrey Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management, warns of the mismatch between America's economic policies and its “mushrooming overseas commitments.” In order to finance the global fight against terrorism and the arduous process of nation-building in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, Washington will have to drastically alter its current economic policies, says Garten...

Doha Round in Deadlock

April 1, 2003
The latest failure of the WTO's Doha round centered on a predictable culprit – agricultural subsidies. This editorial in the Financial Times argues that the failure of discussions on agricultural protection could not only be the death knell of the Doha round, but, worse still, could provoke member countries to actually increase protectionist barriers. "By removing pressure on WTO...

Malaysia Headed for US Deep Freezer?

Eddie Toh March 31, 2003
Despite a period of cooperation immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, in recent weeks Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir has been one of US Pres. George Bush's harshest critics over the war on Iraq. But official criticism should not deter American investors from Malaysia, says this article in Singapore's Business Times. Rather, says author Eddie Toh, Washington and...

N Korea Could Scrap Nuclear Plan for Pipeline

Andrew Ward March 30, 2003
Both South Korean and American officials have claimed that a resolution to the North Korean nuclear weapons crisis should be achieved using different methods than in Iraq. The latest suggestion by the South Korean government is to route a Russian gas pipeline to its northern neighbor, in exchange for Pyongyang's renunciation of all nuclear programs. If the needs of North Korea’s struggling...

Iraq, Testing Ground for US Hi-tech Weapons

March 29, 2003
Some analysts believe that the United States is using Iraq to test newly developed hi-tech weapons – some of which have never been tested in a real battle in the country.

A day at ‘Hyde Park’

Amira Howeidy March 28, 2003
Public demonstrations have been banned in Egypt since the establishment of the "emergency law" in 1967, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of citizens from protesting the US-led war on Iraq. Angry students, journalists, lawyers, and religious leaders filled Tahrir Square last week in what has been called the biggest demonstration since the student campaign for democracy in...

A Role for the U.N. in Iraq’s Future

March 28, 2003
Once the war is over, the United States will have the unenviable task of restoring order and establishing a democratic government in Iraq. The U.N., with its peacekeeping troops, oil-for-food aid program, and international support, would in most cases be an essential partner in this effort, says this editorial in The New York Times. But the U.S. bypassed the U.N. in its decision to invade Iraq...