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Climate Strike Spans Continents: Financial Times

September 20, 2019
Millions of students and their supporters are protesting to demand immediate action from political leaders on climate change, ending the reliance on coal and other fossil fuels. Protests are scheduled in about 3,000 cities and more than 160 nations. Many businesses lend their support, with one...

India and the US Pivot to Asia

February 24, 2012
The US strategic plan is to continue providing global security with emphasis on “rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region.” Such a pivot is not new, but has been in play since the end of the Cold War, argues Robert M. Hathaway, director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center...

Brexit: The Irish Impasse

February 12, 2019
After centuries of conflict over religion and sovereignty, Ireland and Britain agreed to an Irish Free State in 1921 with the Republic of Ireland founded in 1937. Britain and Ireland joined the European Community in 1973 though tensions did not end. “The Good Friday Agreement that ended the...

Fast, Freewheeling Globalization for All

July 5, 2007
Any attempts to analyze globalization must wrestle with its heady speed. Daniel Altman’s latest book, Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, is one such effort. Altman, who also writes a column on managing globalization for the International Herald Tribune, uses a sample of events from a...

Danger From the East: Bangladeshi Extremists Target India

March 26, 2015
Some political parties try courting extremists, urging them to target political opponents. “Violent street contests between the cadres of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid’s Awami League and former Prime Minister Khalida Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party are weakening the country’s nascent...

How to Turn Off the ISIS Tap

July 8, 2014
Wealthy donors and even officials in Muslim nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have tolerated terrorist groups that attack religious foes in other nations. Inevitably, the extremists lash back, seeking to control the minds and hands that feed them. Such is the case with the self-...

Dangerous Alliances on Migration

December 13, 2018
European nations that once promoted human rights are slinking away from these obligations and forming agreements with some third parties that have terrible records on human rights. “The European Union’s migration control policy relies on fortification and deterrence, contributing to massive human...

Lessons From Negotiating With the Taliban

October 8, 2013
Pakistan released the Afghan Taliban’s second in command to catalyze a peace process. It’s not the first effort. In trying to end fighting in Afghanistan and secure a sustainable representative government for Afghans, from mid-2011 to March 2012, the United States tried encouraging Taliban members...
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