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Mixing Free Market, Minority Domination and Democracy Results in World On Fire

Pat Sewell February 10, 2003
In her recent book, World on Fire, Yale University professor Amy Chua argues that it is the resentment of long-standing minority domination that has so much of the world’s citizens ready to take up arms. Pat Sewell examines the author’s contentions and assesses her sweeping proposals for solving the most challenging problem facing global society since the Second World War. – YaleGlobal

Anti-Terror Fight Has to Be a Marathon Run on Wilsonian Principle, Not Cheap Oil

Thomas L. Friedman February 8, 2003
Who were the September 11 hijackers? What impelled them to bring about "such a bursting of the frontiers of civilization"? Thomas L. Friedman, the foreign affairs columnist at The New York Times and author of "The Lexus and the Olive Tree," spent the last fourteen months traveling to find answers to these questions. In an address at Yale University, he offered his personal...

Germans Export Soccer to Asia

February 7, 2003
After the success of the 2002 World Cup put China, Japan, and South Korea on the world soccer map, several German teams have begun to look to the region to recruit new players. Since signing three major Asian stars, German teams have seen their popularity rise in Asia, where twice as many people play soccer as in Europe. – YaleGlobal

Magazines Take China Plunge in Search of Growth

February 7, 2003
With global advertising sales down and China’s economy up, several big US magazines have entered the Chinese market. Undaunted by the prospects of government censorship, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes are following in the footsteps of Time and Fortune, which currently publish or have published Chinese-language editions. In a nod to government censors' concerns, however,...

Political Will Needed to Eliminate Racial Discrimination

Zakki Hakim February 4, 2003
For those who take a long-term view of globalization, the phenomenon is in many ways a story of the movement of people. In some countries of Southeast Asia, Chinese descendants of early sojourners often hold positions of great economic strength but little political power. In Indonesia, people of Chinese descent are a tiny but wealthy minority of the population. Despite criticisms from observers...

Students Close Down McDonald’s Restaurant in Riau

January 29, 2003
Muslim students have closed down a McDonald’s in Indonesia and are calling for a boycott of U.S. products to protest U.S. interference in Indonesia’s domestic affairs. - YaleGlobal

With Asian Hands

Anouar Abdel-Malek January 28, 2003
This editorial from Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly says that Malaysia, an economically rising Asian nation whose population is predominantly Muslim, is the type of nation with whom Egypt must forge closer ties in the century to come. Thanks to the forces of globalization, the author says, the West is losing power to the other nations of the world, and Egypt and other Muslim nations of the Middle...