The surge of uprisings across North Africa began in Tunisia with the self-immolation of a desperate college graduate turned street vendor in December 2010. The pace for democracy since then has been slow, along with economic reforms, as is the case in Egypt and Libya. Economic challenges dog the...
Bread and democracy: Supporters of Islamist el-Nahda celebrate their electoral victory in 2011 (top); now Tunisians demonstrate for bread
TUNIS: The self-immolation of a Tunisian citizen that sparked the North Africa–wide uprising called the Arab...
西方国家正分心关注经济和军事问题，以色列在解决巴以冲突中的顽固不化，加上美国那鼓励自由选举但却拒绝选举结果的令人费解的政策，这一切都让像土耳其这样的新兴民主力量推动政府加强与地区邻国之间的联系。正如这一系列文章所分析的，其结果就是，像土耳其那样的国家虽然长久以来就是北大西洋公约组织成员的国家，不再对西方国家亦步亦趋。作者迪利普•希罗（Dilip Hiro）在《耶鲁全球》系列文章的下篇中解释道，土耳其独立外交政策背后的政治转型，始于有着伊斯兰教背景的改良主义政党——正义与发展党（Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi 或 AKP）——赢得2002年的大选。从经济增长、...
新挑战者：土耳其总理雷杰普•塔伊普•埃尔多安（Recep Tayyip Erdogan）（右）欢迎伊朗总统马哈茂德•艾哈迈迪－内贾德 （Mahmoud Ahmadinejad）到访伊斯坦布尔。
伦敦：伊拉克和阿富汗漫长且尚未结束的战争，加上华尔街的贪欲引发的全球经济衰退，普遍被看作是美国经济和军事影响力相对下降的表现。中东地区的土耳其和伊朗以及南美洲的巴西等中间力量的兴起，如今正向美国外交政策的霸权地位发起挑战。
本周，外交力量新轮廓在伊斯坦布尔显露出来。...
Challenges in any of the landlocked Central Asian nations impact overall regional security. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are taking steps for regional diplomacy and reduced isolation for Afghanistan. Regional discussions on water management, energy cooperation, transportation links and trade are...
Thousands of migrants travel the deserts of North Africa, fleeing poverty and conflict, determined to reach Libya and eventually Europe. Many Africans with large families can no longer find work as drought and high temperatures devastate the agriculture industry, explains Thomas Friedman for the...
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Wild bees are better at fertilizing plants than bees managed by humans, and their falling numbers are hurting global agriculture, according to a study in the journal Science, reported on by Health24. Wild bees live in edge habitats, borders between grasslands and forests, which are increasingly...
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Senator Kamala Harris grilled William Barr, US attorney general, during the Senate Judiciary Committee about the Mueller report. Barr could not decisively answer yes or no if anyone at the White House had suggested he open an investigation into anyone. He admitted having discussions with White...
Determined to restore Russia’s standing as a great power, President Vladimir Putin has his reasons for annexing Crimea and amassing troops along the border with Ukraine. “Today the former Soviet space, with the exceptions of the Baltics and Russia itself, is a region of fragile states, corrupt...
Empire’s failing periphery: Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russia’s glory (top) as poverty festers along the border, as in Ukraine
NEW YORK: Russian President Putin is “living in another world," German Chancellor Merkel reportedly told American...
With 4 million Germans currently unemployed, immigrants have become an easy scapegoat to blame for job losses. And it is the potential immigrant who wants to settle down in Germany that faces the biggest roadblocks to immigration, notes this article in FAZ Weekly. Under a proposed immigration law,...
Economists sometimes come up with odd examples. Imagine the following: Each year, new high school graduates would line up outside the labor offices in early summer. The clerical worker then would ask the...
