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Modern Globalization

Nayan Chanda January 5, 2008
This column for Businessworld in India explores the many facets of globalization manifested in all aspects of life. By exploring the interconnections of the globalization forces, columnist and YaleGlobal's editor Nayan Chanda hopes to build better understanding, pointing to the dangers and opportunities. Like it or not, humanity is bound together by invisible threads of connections born of...

The Rise of China and the Future of the West: Can the Liberal System Survive?

G. John Ikenberry January 2, 2008
China’s rise does not present inevitable battle between east and west. Global powers can accommodate a changing order and thrive. “Today's Western order, in short, is hard to overturn and easy to join,” writes G. John Ikenberry, professor of politics and international affairs. After World War II, the US led in establishing institutions that welcomed victors and defeated, established powers...

Canada's Aid Seeded China Dam

Ian Johnson January 2, 2008
Environmental and human-rights activists around the globe criticize the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, Three Gorges Dam in China, for its displacement of more than a million people and environmental devastation. Yet governments and companies of the West provided assistance that allowed the controversial project to proceed. “In the midst of a domestic political crisis, the Canadian government...

After Bhutto, Pakistan on Edge

Ahmed Rashid January 1, 2008
Pakistan grieves the sudden, yet foreseen death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a courageous woman who threatened the status quo. Urged by the US, Bhutto agreed to a power-sharing deal with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, if both won election. She vowed to end appeasement of extremists and cooperate with the US in pursuing all sources of terrorism, in and out of Pakistan. She...

Qaeda Network Expands Base in Pakistan

Carlotta Gall December 29, 2007
More than six years after the US declared a global war on terror, terrorism – in the form of the Al Qaeda network – continues to take root in Pakistan. The Pakistan government accuses the terrorist organization of assassinating Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan and a courageous voice on the dangers of religious extremism. “The expansion of Pakistan’s own militants and their...

As Immigration Debate Generates Heat, Dust Gathers on a Workable Plan

Joseph Chamie December 18, 2007
For two centuries, the US grew and flourished with the world's most open immigration policy. But with the public worried about growing illegal immigration and politicians trying to outdo one another with an anti-immigrant stance, the issue has moved from reason to rhetoric. As a topic, immigration has tripped many a politician in US election campaigns, and the 2008 presidential race is no...

For China and Vietnam, a Highway Link Means Speedy Growth

Donald Greenlees December 14, 2007
Investments in infrastructure contribute to economic growth, which in turn can reduce poverty. A new highway between China and Vietnam will encourage trade and many other connections, reports Donald Greenlees for the New York Times. The highway, when completed in 2012, is expected to reduce travel time between the two huge developing markets, ranked first and 13th in terms of population, both...