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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...

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...

Education for All: The Unfulfilled Promise

Koichiro Matsuura January 22, 2003
If one of globalization's key features is an information-technology revolution, then certainly universal education deserves attention. Without ensuring everyone has access to the 'currency' of knowledge, many believe that globalization will only serve to further already-existing inequalities. In this article, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and...

New Survey Documents Global Repression

January 14, 2003
Is it only in periods of relative stability and peace that human rights should be an issue to the international community? The latest report from Human Rights Watch, a US-based international monitoring group, finds that the United States has undermined basic principles of human rights while pursuing the global war on terrorism. The organization's executive director says in this press...

Jordanian Assaulted

January 10, 2003
With new transportation technology and an integrating world economy has arrived an era in which people can more easily travel for work or pleasure. But expressions of xenophobia may also be on the rise, as an attack on a Jordanian in Germany shows – YaleGlobal .

The World Still Watches America

Neal Gabler January 9, 2003
Some observers point to the decreasing popularity of American TV shows abroad as evidence that anti-American sentiment is on the rise around the world. Indeed, anti-globalization protestors who fear that globalization will lead to an American-dominated global mono-culture may take solace in the fact that the top-ranked US TV show, C.S.I., garners only three percent of the viewing audience in...

Pew Survey Says America Most Religious of Wealthy Nations

December 23, 2002
The latest poll by the Pew Research Center reveals that Americans place a higher degree of personal importance on religion than residents of other wealthy countries. The survey of 44 countries, part of The Pew Global Attitudes Project, also found that residents of Asia, Latin America, and Africa tend to place a great deal of importance on religion in their own lives. – YaleGlobal