Arab television coverage of the war on Iraq is not unlike many US stations: talk shows, press briefings, and video footage. The messages differ, however. On Arab TV, Americans are portrayed as aggressive and barbaric, while Arabs are heroic. Networks like Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV did not exist...
THE recent airing of gruesome pictures of American casualties and prisoners of war (POWs) has again set the American media talking about the unbridled nature of Arab television, particularly the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera...
Twenty-nine Egyptian intellectuals have protested Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s statement that Saddam Hussein was the cause of the American invasion of Iraq. Instead, this disparate group of thinkers have offered other reasons for the war—the inherent weakness of authoritarian governments,...
A few days after President Hosni Mubarak's 19 March speech blaming the Saddam Hussein regime for the Iraqi crisis, 29 prominent Egyptian intellectuals -- representing a wide range of the political spectrum -- issued a...
Some observers point to the decreasing popularity of American TV shows abroad as evidence that anti-American sentiment is on the rise around the world. Indeed, anti-globalization protestors who fear that globalization will lead to an American-dominated global mono-culture may take solace in the...
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The UN was weak and irrelevant long before the divisive US-led war on Iraq made this painfully obvious, International Law scholar Michael Glennon maintains. He explains that Iraq is more a symptom of UN structural problems and changes in its geopolitical environment than a cause.. The UN was...
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"The tents have been struck," declared South Africa's prime minister, Jan Christian Smuts, about the League of Nations' founding. "The great caravan of humanity is again on the march." A...
TBILISI: Si une nouvelle vague de démocratisation doit changer le visage de la politique internationale au XXIe siècle, les futurs historiens pourraient tenter de remonter jusqu’à ses origines, et finalement aboutir non...
半个世纪以来，巴以冲突一直位于全世界关注点的中心，而它的永久性解决方案被证明是一个难以达到的目标。在这篇由两部分组成的探究下一任美国总统在外交政策上所面临的挑战的系列文章的第二部分中，人口统计学家约瑟夫•夏米（Joseph Chamie）以以色列以及巴勒斯坦被占领土（occupied territories）的人口变化趋势为论据，给我们展示了在未来几年中巴以冲突所可能会呈现的态势。他预测了四种在本世纪中叶可能发生的情形。夏米指出，由于巴勒斯坦较高的人口出生率，再加上巴勒斯坦难民有可能回迁，犹太裔以色列人的多数地位会随着时间的推移而减弱。夏米指出，从长远来看，...
生育能力成就民主：巴勒斯坦的人口出生率比以色列的要高，这最终可能对巴以冲突的解决产生决定性的影响。
发自纽约——在美国公民准备迎接新总统而以色列也迎来了新一届政府之际，持续已久的巴以冲突将再次出现于议事日程之中并得到重新审视。在对世界上最棘手的 难题之一进行一些必要的政治性和战略性考量时，决策者们最好还是仔细考虑一下人口结构这个默默无闻却又无法改变的事实。它是任何短期打算都不能予以解决 的。
六十多年以来，以色列和巴勒斯坦在一小块总面积与海地差不多大小的土地上相互争斗。...
China anticipated an election win in Myanmar by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and invited her for a meeting with President Xi Jinping. “Among ordinary people in Myanmar, China is seen as a heavy-handed northern neighbor largely interested in extracting valuable natural resources...
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“The vulnerability of Southeast Asian countries to the combination of Chinese money and their own corrupt politicians has been laid starkly bare by a new report on Malaysia’s scandal ridden 1MDB,” reports Philip Bowring. International authorities are investigating Prime Minister Najib Razak for...
The vulnerability of Southeast Asian countries to the combination of Chinese money and their own corrupt politicians has been laid starkly bare by a new report on Malaysia’s scandal ridden 1MDB.
Desperate to extricate himself from the massive misuse...