The world is alarmed by the test launch of seven missiles by North Korea, yet South Korea and China decline to issue a tough response. Instead South Korea reaffirms its “sunshine” policy and China reasserts its “friendly” relations with its neighbor to the east. In the United Nations, meanwhile,...
As the United Nations debated what to do about North Korea's missile launches, the two countries with the most leverage over the hard-line state -- South Korea and China -- stuck by their policies of engagement and said...
After pursuing false threats in Iraq, the US and UK may have trouble convincing other countries to sanction or attack Iran. Regularly threatening Israel and boasting about every nuclear breakthrough, Iran’s president certainly does not hesitate in helping the US and UK make a case that the nation...
Here's the thing that people often forget about the boy who cried wolf: he did see a wolf eventually. Could that be how things are turning out in the Gulf? Did Britain and the US point to a false threat in Iraq, only to...
Facing mounting criticism around the world, proponents of globalization have risen to its defense. IMF First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger argues for a renewed commitment to the principles of free trade that have fueled the last half-century’s ever-increasing economic expansion. Though she...
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This World AIDS Day brings with it greatly advanced knowledge about combating the deadly illness, but also concerns for regions where the risk is silently increasing. Many observers fear that, much like sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s, Middle East and North African nations will not confront the...
Dec. 1 is World AIDS day, and this provides an appropriate backdrop to underline how frightening it is to compare the HIV-AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa to the situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA...
Ten years ago, in seeking to escape its colonial legacy, India's wealthiest state re-named its flagship city, and Bombay became Mumbai. To this day, however, there is still confusion over what to call the city; the Times of India writes "Mumbai" on front-page news, but calls its...
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The Euro-Mediterranean region has historically been a culturally diverse area with European, African, and Middle Eastern influences. The Byzantine, Roman, and Prussian empires have all taken foot-hold in this region, creating a cycle of "conquest, counter-conquest, competition, and colonialism...
Last week the world watched a string of battlegrounds, both real and figurative. In the United States a dead-heat battle raged between two presidential candidates, with the incumbent president eventually winning a...
United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, responded to a series of questions posed to him following his speech on globalization at Yale University. Mr. Annan offered his views on the current Iraq-US conflict, the global AIDS pandemic, the Kashmir conflict, the International Criminal Court. He...
[The following is a transcript of the Question-and-Answer Session held after Secretary-General Kofi Annan's speech at Yale University on Wednesday, October 2, 2002. Mr. Annan was speaking at Yale at the invitation of...
Media in the US and the UK are too eager to report the "official" news from the war in Iraq, says this opinion piece in India's The Hindu. Western reporters "embedded" with their militaries have lost their objectivity, the author argues, despite having long lectured...
The media moghuls from the West who had often lectured us, the scribes of the developing world, on the ethics of journalism have allowed themselves to become an arm of the establishment - willingly, even...