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World Opinion Is Fragmented on Tighter Security for Visitors

Elaine Sciolino January 7, 2004
New security procedures designed to prevent potential terrorists from entering the United States have met with mixed reaction around the globe. Beginning this week, the US is requiring that visitors from all but 27 countries be fingerprinted and photographed upon entry to the US. Washington is also pushing foreign and American carriers to accept armed US marshals on board US-bound airplanes....

How to Reduce Poverty: Lessons from China

David Dollar January 6, 2004
Conventional economic wisdom holds that foreign investment and trade boost economic growth and help alleviate poverty in developing countries. So why is it that some countries that seem quite open to the outside world are stagnating economically? David Dollar, Director of Development Policy at the World Bank, writes that a comparison of economic conditions in several Chinese cities points to...

Rethinking Globalization: Nirvana or Armageddon?

Yanuar Nugroho January 5, 2004
Globalization has been promoted and denounced by people around the world, but who is right? Yanuar Nugroho, Director of Business Watch Indonesia, writes that those arguments miss the point, because the processes of globalization are inevitable and unstoppable. To make globalization work for all, he argues, we must develop a people-centered globalization that focuses on pulling the world's...

The Likely Surprises of 2004

Moises Naim December 29, 2003
The Iraq war may have dominated headlines, but it was not the only significant geopolitical event of 2003. Moises Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy Magazine, reminds us that while moving forward in 2004 we cannot overlook the fundamental changes that occurred in 2003 within the European Union, the global trading system, the American and Chinese economies, and Russia. As a new year begins, the...

Foreign Adoptions Tricky, Tough

Ashley Fantz December 17, 2003
American and European childless couples often make the choice to adopt from another country, assuming that the process will be quicker and easier. Instead, couples often find difficult hurdles to overcome, such as domestic and foreign laws, illegal kidnapping, greedy middlemen, visa trouble, and agencies that do not properly determine if the child was legitimately taken from the birth mother....

'Hasten Slowly' in Reviving the Doha Round

Ernesto Zedillo December 12, 2003
Reviving the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after the debacle in Cancun will not be possible if negotiators pretend that nothing has happened. Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, argues that further trade talks will only be useful if the participating countries recognize the lessons that should have been...

Anti-Americanism: Causes and Characteristics

Andrew Kohut December 10, 2003
A series of public opinion surveys conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project in various countries has found unprecedented levels of anti-American sentiment around the world. Majorities express unfavorable opinions of the US, not only in Western Europe and the Muslim world but also in countries like Brazil and Russia. Even in Britain, the United States' most trusted European ally, 55...