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Remittances Are Effective Weapon Against Poverty

Norman Lamont November 18, 2005
In a report this week, the World Bank drew attention to the money flow from immigrants back to their countries of origin. The amount of money transferred annually is between two and three times the level of development aid from rich to poor countries. According to the bank, the economic benefits of remittances could outstrip even the benefits of trade liberalization. Yet many governments now...

Censuring the U.S. Gave Jordan No Security

Rami G. Khouri November 14, 2005
The recent terror attacks in Jordan marks a new turn in the global war on terror. Jordan itself is no stranger to terrorist attacks, but since September 11, the rules of the game have changed. Where Jordan once battled terrorism at a local level, now the country is caught up in a global struggle. Events are now defined by the conflict between Washington and its allies, and a plethora of anti-...

Should the US Sell Nuclear Technology to India? – Part II

Ashley J. Tellis November 10, 2005
When US President Bush signed a deal in July with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh allowing India access to civilian nuclear technology, naysayers complained that the administration had undermined the principles of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which India has not signed. In the part two of our series, Ashley J. Tellis argues that, such critics fail to see the shrewdness of rewarding...

Musharraf's Islamist Challenge

November 10, 2005
Islamist groups have long used charity to boost their support amongst poor Muslims. They are now coming to the aid of the millions left homeless, injured, or hungry by last month's devastating earthquake in Pakistan—to great effect. Refugee camps run by organizations like Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakistan's most powerful Islamist group, feature far better medical care than their state-run...

This Is Not Only a French Crisis - All of Europe Must Heed the Flames

Timothy Garton Ash November 10, 2005
With urban insurrection raging from Normandy in the north to Marseille in the south, it is now impossible for the French to dismiss the country’s enormous demographic faultlines with appeals to republican greatness and unity. The riots revealed that France, the European country with the largest proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, faces a tremendous social and cultural crisis. In a...

In Iraq, They’re Revisiting Vietnam-Era Counterinsurgency

David Ignatius November 8, 2005
The insurgency in Iraq after the so-called ‘end of major combat operations’ has proved pretty intractable for US military planners. As David Ignatius writes, many of those strategists are looking back to counterinsurgency planning during the Vietnam War for ideas about how to “win the peace.” The technique, which is attracting considerable interest from US Central Command leader General John...

A Year of Living Dangerously

Francis Fukuyama November 3, 2005
One year after the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, well-known scholar Francis Fukuyama writes about the phenomenon of so-called "homegrown" European Islamic radicalism. He argues that radical Islam among immigrants to Europe is the result of their traditional faith being uprooted from its social and cultural underpinnings, and the crisis of identity that seems to particularly...