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At the Nuclear Security Summit, Real Action on the Sidelines

April 1, 2016
Global leaders attending a Nuclear Security Summit are determined to stop nuclear capabilities of North Korea and terrorist groups like the Islamic State. Analysis by Stratfor suggests that meetings on the summit’s sidelines could produce the most security gains. The United States pressed for reinforcing UN sanctions against North Korea – though the defiant country is reported to have test-fired...

Modi’s Middle East Outreach

Harsh V. Pant March 31, 2016
Investing and trading in the Middle East carry high risk due to difficult political transitions and ongoing conflicts. Like other major economies, India leverages economic clout for strategic purposes, especially to isolate rival Pakistan’s military and intelligence capabilities. India, soon to be the world’s most populous nation, has a minority Muslim population that’s larger than Pakistan’s....

Better Late Than Never

Nayan Chanda March 31, 2016
India has flung open the doors on foreign direct investment in its food retail sector. “Presenting the annual budget, the finance minister announced that his government would allow 100 per cent FDI in agricultural food processing, which covers the multi-brand retail of food products produced and manufactured in India,” writes Nayan Chanda, YaleGlobal’s founding editor, in his column for...

China’s Future Challenge for the World Economy

Martin Wolf March 30, 2016
Economic policies in the world’s most populous nations, soon to be the world’s largest economy, affect the rest of the world. China’s rising corporate indebtedness could slow investment and lead to rapid depreciation, suggests Martin Wolf for Financial Times. China has a range of responses: following the West’s lead with increased borrowing to stimulate the economy, weakening the currency or...

Nafta May Have Saved Many Autoworkers’ Jobs

Eduardo Porter March 30, 2016
The North American Free Trade Agreement, in effect for more than two decades, likely saved the US auto industry. “Even in the narrowest sense – to protect jobs in car assembly plants – a wall of tariffs against America’s southern neighbor would probably do more harm than good,” suggests Eduardo Porter for the New York Times based on research by Gordon Hanson, an economist at the University of...

When Will the West Care About Terrorism in Pakistan?

Aaron David Miller March 29, 2016
European and US media devoted far more coverage to the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels than those in Lahore on Easter Sunday. Coverage of attacks anywhere is generally shallow, alarmist and more descriptive than analytical. Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, criticizes the media and government response in the West by comparing casualty numbers,...

Europe Must Adapt to a Dangerous World

Daniel Twining March 29, 2016
Security is essential for economic viability, and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels suggest that European Union leaders underestimated the jihadist influences within their cities and the aggression near its borders. EU leaders must master geopolitics, influencing regional events and engaging in great power competition. The continent may be over-reliant on the United States for security...