At a recent meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Greece, the discussions focused on the resumption of diplomatic missions to Iraq and the design of a European security strategy. The proposed European Security Strategy document will be "a common threat assessment on issues ranging...
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Confronted with US evidence, North Korea has admitted to developing a nuclear weapons program. The country's admission shows a blatant disregard of a 1994 agreement in which it promised to halt nuclear weapons research, and the issue poses a serious set-back for the global effort to prevent...
The divided Korean peninsula appeared to be heading towards a fresh crisis on Thursday after the US said North Korea had for the first time admitted to developing weapons of mass destruction.
In a surprise...
This editorial from Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly says that Malaysia, an economically rising Asian nation whose population is predominantly Muslim, is the type of nation with whom Egypt must forge closer ties in the century to come. Thanks to the forces of globalization, the author says, the West...
This week the government of Egypt welcomed Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohammed. That this visit has taken place against a backdrop of increasing global polarisation between those forces of domination and of...
US and Thai officials are in the midst of interrogating Hambali, the man believed to be the top operative of al Qaida in Asia, who they arrested last week in a joint operative. Hambali has not only been linked to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, but is also believed to be...
The Indonesian government wants access to terror suspect Hambali, currently in U.S. custody, to question him about a string of attacks in the country, including the Aug. 5 JW Marriott Hotel bombing that killed 12 people...
In this article, veteran journalist Michael Massing expresses concern about the American media's coverage of the Iraq war. The Coalition Media Center in Baghdad was a very "uninformative" source for the media, as described by Massing, yet its official news briefings – which were...
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The Indonesian government cannot directly attack Jemaah Islamiah, the infamous terrorist network responsible for the bombing of Jakarta's Marriot Hotel last week. Though the country supported the UN's blacklisting of the group and knows that members were responsible for the two bloodiest...
JAKARTA - The Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network continues to survive in Indonesia even after carrying out two of the bloodiest attacks in the country's history.
Though the Megawati administration was...
在中美友好竞争的背后潜伏着不稳定性和冲突的可能性。但是，这种情景不仅让韩国这样的国家有机会协调这两个大国的关系，在世界舞台上发挥更大作用，而且也使它面临如何保持中立的挑战。按照韩国前任外交部长官韩升洲（Han Sung-Joo）的话说，要更好的理解这种机会，可以想象两个相互关联的三角关系，其中美国和中国作为两角，韩国或者朝鲜是第三角。在韩国参与构成的三角关系中，各方关系基本上是经济和贸易关系，而且相互依赖性很强。韩国出口到中国的大部分商品最后都又到了美国。在朝鲜参与构成的三角关系中，各方关系都是以安全和核力量为基础的。中国是保证朝鲜生存的关键，但是还没有全力对付其核企图。最终，...
朝鲜三角：处理韩国与美国（奥巴马总统与韩国总统李明博[上]）以及韩国与中国的关系（李明博和中国主席胡锦涛[下]）成为首尔外交的复杂任务。
芝加哥：中国和美国虽然努力推动合作，在军事领域建立互信，但是两国仍然相互猜忌，都试图用加强各自与韩国和朝鲜的现有同盟关系等抗衡行为来遏制对方。为了防止在这样的竞争中产生冲突，并建立多边相互监督制衡的基础，韩国等亚洲其他国家将扮演特别的角色。这种角色会使他们陷入困境：要么选择一边以保持独立，要么试图协调两大国，让它们走到一起。...
美国于1975年结束了越南战争，在此之前的二十年里，美国领导人一直将共产党统治的北越视作对其本国自由的一大威胁，美国的将军们立誓要以狂轰滥炸迫使越共政权投降。战后，美国奉行孤立主义政策。越南尽管获得了统一，但随着它充公了私有财产、对反对者进行劳教以及同苏联结盟，该国经济陷入了增长停滞的泥沼。随着苏联的解体，本文作者让-皮埃尔•莱曼（Jean-Pierre Lehmann）解释道，越南开始对经济进行改革，分别于1991年和1995年恢复了同中国和美国的外交关系，并在2007年加入了世贸组织。全球化、贸易和对外开放使越南转变为一支影响全球经济的力量。“在1960、70年代甚至1980年代，...
拔靴带生产线：越南同世界其它国家的贸易将其经济提升至新的高度。
胡志明市：十五年前的7月11日，克林顿总统宣布恢复美国同越南的大使级外交关系。过去的十五年见证了这两个宿敌之间关系改善的显著进展。
事实上，在争当全球化典型代表的角逐中，位于榜首的自然是具有大陆经济规模的中国和印 度。但被誉为“亚洲新小龙”的越南也迅速崛起，成为全球化的赢家——此次世界经济论坛东亚峰会选择越南，而非经济环境更为成熟的新加坡、首尔、香港或吉隆 坡作为东道国，便印证了该国经济发展所取得的成功。
从经济角度来看...