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The US Confronts Pakistan’s Street Power

Dilip Hiro April 27, 2012
Lahore-based Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is founder of Laskar-e-Taiba, LeT, and alleged to be the mastermind behind the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Yet he’s also come to epitomize Pakistani street power, taking advantage of widespread seething discontent. Author Dilip Hiro details the history of Pakistan that encourages instability. Large numbers of Pakistanis are alert for any hint of disrespect...

Power Shift in China – Part III

Susan Shirk April 20, 2012
The selection process of China’s top leaders is kept secret, preventing citizens or ambitious subordinates from taking advantage of divisions. A faux united front may seem cautious and uninspiring as special interests grow, taking entrenched positions. This YaleGlobal series assesses the challenges confronting China as it prepares for leadership transition in October. In the third and final...

Power Shift in China – Part II

Stapleton Roy April 18, 2012
China faces pressing challenges in sustaining rapid growth and balancing competing interests of populists and elites, yet remains determined in achieving prosperity and global recognition. The world’s largest country prepares for a transition in leadership, and this YaleGlobal series analyzes the implications for foreign policy. The next decade – and the relationship between the next US president...

Power Shift in China – Part I

Cheng Li April 16, 2012
Leadership transition in China is an opaque process. New appointments to the powerful standing committee of the Politburo are anticipated in October, as President Hu Jintao relinquishes his post as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and hands control to Vice President Xi Jinping. The firing of an ambitious Chongqing party secretary and investigation of his wife for a murder of a...

US Battle to Revive Manufacturing – Part II

Clyde Prestowitz April 13, 2012
Jobs remain a central concern for the US voters and the 2012 presidential campaign. Candidates of opposing parties, and even insiders of the Obama administration, debate whether government intervention, including subsidies for particular industries, helps or hurts companies. This YaleGlobal series analyzes the US effort to jumpstart manufacturing, and in the second article, Clyde Prestowitz,...

US Battle to Revive Manufacturing – Part I

Bruce Stokes April 11, 2012
As the US confronts stubborn unemployment and a shrinking industrial base, a battle is shaping up about reviving manufacturing. Running for reelection, President Obama has embraced manufacturing and export renaissance, even as free-market supporters find fault in what they call his “industrial policy.” In this two-part series, YaleGlobal examines the political and ideological implications of...

Will Bo’s Fall Presage Rise of China’s Reformers?

Frank Ching April 9, 2012
The processes behind the selection of the Chinese Communist Party’s top leaders – the nine-member standing committee of the Politburo – are long, deliberative and secretive. The veil of secrecy was lifted briefly when Bo Xilai, who had seemed destined to make the standing committee team, was unceremoniously removed for excessive ambition. The ousted Chongqing party secretary’s campaign for...