Voters select candidates for many reasons including economic and security issues. Women make up the majority of registered voters in many nations, yet large numbers support candidates who display misogynistic streaks. Far-right candidates are gaining traction. “From the parliamentary gains of far-...
As many as 1.7 million protesters of all ages bearing colorful umbrellas marched peacefully in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park and other parts of the city. “China, which has built up security forces in nearby Shenzhen, has likened the protests to terrorist activity,” notes a BBC News report. China has...
Conflicts in the Middle East attract interventions by regional powers. The Turkish parliament’s approval of troop deployment to assist one side in the Libyan civil conflict reveals some themes, explains Mustafa Batman, an International Fox Fellow at Yale University. Turkey’s involvement in Libya,...
Changing partners: Libyan General Khalifa Haftar plans against Turkish intervention; his backer Vladimir Putin now on the opposing side of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
NEW HAVEN: Conflicts in the Middle East attract an entanglement of...
最近几年来，新的术语，如中美（Chimerica）和G2等词不断被创造出来描述中美关系。随着全世界不断寻求全球金融危机的出路，它们已经获得了新的认同。随着中国在伦敦举行的20国集团会议上成了会议的焦点，以及中美高级官员最近在华盛顿举行了战略与经济对话，，两国将有望合作结束金融危机。但是，一些人担心G2这一术语可能反映了新的共同治理的现实。中国分析专家克利斯朵夫•M•克拉克（Christopher M. Clarke）认为，那不过是表面而已。他写道，某些人看到中美两国的经济“共生”关系就杜撰出中美（Chimerica）一词，但这一经济共生关系不过是因为害怕“与对方一起坠入深渊”，...
华盛顿：最近中美间举行的高端“战略与经济对话”为逐渐兴起的共治这一概念——也就是所谓的G-2——注入了新的希望。对许多人来说，美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿在北京敦促中国继续购买美国国债明显地表明两大国的相互依赖性。在最近的对话前，两位学者甚至创造了一个抢眼的新词——“中美”（Chimerica） ——来描述新的权力结构。然而现实并不如此乐观：鉴于两国间巨大的鸿沟，仅仅是经济共生并不能催生出中美共治。
2006年，当经济史学家尼埃尔·弗格森（Niall Ferguson）首次使用“共治”...
A speech by the US national security adviser has emerged as the first public demand that China end the theft of data from US computer networks. China repeated its own denunciations of such attacks and denied that its military is involved in wholesale cybertheft from US corporations and government...
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The throngs of protestors that flock to every major international conference or summit claim as their goal the reversal of Western-dominated globalization. But these protestors, themselves the products of globalization, often find their constructive criticism drowned out by inflammatory rhetoric....
Globalization and Poverty
The world in which we live is both remarkably comfortable and thoroughly miserable. There is unprecedented prosperity in the world, which is incomparably richer than ever before. The massive command over resources,...
The United States is severely divided over impeachment, with a Senate trial anticipated in January. It’s unlikely that the required 67 senators will vote to remove Donald Trump from office, but “the proceedings have laid bare the severe national security distortions caused by his unconstitutional...
Legal aid: US Attorney General William Barr is siding with President Donald Trump, as is Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
NEW HAVEN: The House of Representatives has impeached Donald Trump, the first presidential impeachment in US history for...
Berlin’s ruling coalition of Social Democrats and the Party of Democratic Socialism decided after much deliberation to pass a bill introduced by the city’s Interior Minister, Ehrhart Körting, that bans the display of any religious symbols by those employed in the public sector. Unlike previous...
Muslim head scarves, Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses may soon have to vanish from the workplace for a large number of the capital's public sector employees. The city-state's Interior Minister, Ehrhart...
