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Globalization Won't Stop

Tom Friedman February 3, 2003
With the lengthening shadow of war and terrorism and the shrinking of the global market, many see globalization as receding, if not coming to its end. But one of the world's most well-known commentators on globalization, Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs columnist, sees the trend by which the world is becoming smaller as unstoppable. In an interview with Nayan Chanda,...

EU Must Face Up to a Fractured Future

Anatol Lieven February 2, 2003
Despite repeated protests against American unilateralism, European Union leaders may have to reconcile themselves to the idea that they will be unable to prevent the Bush administration from waging war in Iraq. While the oft-cited “Transatlantic gap” has yet to materialize, the power gap between the United States and Europe has never been more real. As this opinion explores, without a drastic...

The Qaeda Vipers in Europe’s Bosom

Jonathan Stevenson February 1, 2003
Europe has been a hotbed of al Qaeda activity, even serving as a planning center for some of the militant Muslims who carried out the September 11 attacks on the US. Social conditions for Muslims in Europe are such that many Muslim immigrants feel alienated in places like Britain. Though European governments have been aggressive in arresting terrorist suspects since September 11 and have...

Cash Went North; 'Why' Not Clear

Lee Sang-il January 31, 2003
An investigation in Seoul is casting some shadow on a Nobel Peace prize winner. Government investigators in Seoul have discovered that the South Korean government transferred $200 million to North Korea before the historic summit meeting between the two countries' leaders, Kim Jong Il and Kim Dae Jung, in June 2000. The same year, Kim Dae Jung was awarded the Nobel prize for his role in...

Crisis Over Saddam a Huge Test for Europe

Doug Bandow January 31, 2003
The leaders of France and Germany both threaten to veto a UN Security Council war resolution. Such a veto could deal a significant blow to the United States’ legitimacy in pursuing war. For the United States to take that threat seriously, however, France and Germany must develop what is now ambiguous opposition into real action and support from other like-minded nations. Otherwise, Doug Bandow...

Satellites Said to See Activity at North Korean Nuclear Site

David E. Sanger January 31, 2003
It seems the fear of many analysts about North Korea is coming true. On January 28 a YaleGlobal article raised the possibility that North Korea may be rushing to reprocess its 8,000 rods of spent fuel into weapons-grade plutonium and that it could even be done without being observed by spy satellite. Today this new article in the New York Times quotes US intelligence sources as saying that "...

Stepping into a Burgeoning Gap

Amira Howeidy January 29, 2003
What effects would a UK- and US-led war on Iraq have on Egypt’s economy, society and political position? What effects are already taking place at the prospect of war? This article in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly says Egypt would suffer heavy economic losses, for not only would the war hurt its vital tourism industry, it would also disrupt trade with Iraq and destabilize jobs for Egyptian...