Recent scandals over US mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan have badly tarnished America’s human rights record. Grave as the abuses are, says globalization scholar Susan Ariel Aaronson, the Bush administration can help restore at least a measure of goodwill by promoting human rights...
Diamonds from Africa and elsewhere must now be certified to ensure that their mining has not promoted conflicts or human rights violations.
WASHINGTON: A common criticism of free trade is that it fattens the...
With free trade agreements with China, India, and Japan due to go into force over the next ten years, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is now proposing FTA deals with Australia and New Zealand. In the most recent ASEAN trade meeting, economic ministers of the ten member states...
(SINGAPORE) Asean economic ministers wrapped up a meeting in Singapore yesterday with a proposal for the regional grouping to start talks with Australia and New Zealand on a free trade deal – signaling a policy shift...
Football is not only popular, but probably the world's most globalized profession. The most talented Brazilian, Cameroonian and Japanese football players move from country to country more so than doctors, computer scientists, blue-collar workers or bank tellers. On the club circuit, rules...
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The European Union may strengthen after voters in the United Kingdom elected to withdraw from the Union, and Chris Miller, associate director of Yale’s Grand Strategy Program, offers analysis as to why: Britain’s economic challenges could prompt hesitation among other members contemplating a...
Falsehoods and second thoughts: Britain’s Brexit proponent Boris Johnson gave false hopes to voters, top, while Austria’s far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has chosen to support EU
NEW HAVEN: Events since the Brexit vote suggest that...
亚洲在全球收入和金融力量中所占份额日益扩大。但全球金融机构巨头，如国际货币基金组织和世界银行，却偏重美国和其他发达国家。全球经济秩序正在发生转变。耶鲁大学国际贸易与金融专业教授，杰弗里•E•加滕（Jeffrey E. Garten）警告说，由于债务缠身的美国放弃其作为全球非正式监管者的地位，下一个十年的金融调节将呈现出迅猛、混乱的特点，并充满痛苦。纵观全球，各国政府均进一步强化了危险的消费模式，迟迟不就货币、贸易或气候变化等问题展开协商，签订合理、公平又节约成本的全球协定。各国均忽略了相互之间的广泛联系，继续采取自我中心的方式解决全球问题，并将这样做的代价留给了子孙后代。...
需求、远见和影响：为了更好地进行全球治理，G20应当展现出远见卓识，而国际货币基金组织则应当拥有重大的监督权。
纽黑文：随着21世纪的第一个十年临近尾声，上世纪后半页经济稳定增长的局面也成为了 遥远的回忆。那么，全球经济的未来将何去何从呢？我们可以预见，在未来的几年里，会出现罕见的动荡局面，因为在我们所知的全球经济秩序衰落期里情况会一片 混乱，而且可能是颇具毁灭性。但从较长的时期来看，例如从现在起未来十年之内，一个更有希望的前景正等待着我们。因为一套新的国际经济安排将赢得政府、企...
Governments have long encouraged minimal or no taxation in free trade zones and freeports to encourage commerce and economic activity, and the concept of secure warehouses for luxury goods in transit began with the Geneva Freeport in the late 19th century. Such complexes expand worldwide as...
The art of hiding: An Etruscan sarcophagus stored by a shell company in a Swiss freeport was later returned to Italy; museums can warehouse treasures, too (Source: New York Times, AP)
SAN FRANCISCO: An archipelago of tax-free storage facilities...
南亚专家阿什利•J•泰利斯（Ashley J. Tellis）认为，巴基斯坦的恐怖主义煽动政策，仍然是与印度保持和平以及促进阿富汗稳定的主要拦路虎。自建国以来，巴基斯坦的策略便是在印度国内煽动叛乱，但总是失败居多。然而，上世纪80年代圣战者们（jihadis）在阿富汗成功抵御了强大的前苏联军队，让伊斯兰堡萌生了在整个印度雇佣恐怖分子的念头。巴基斯坦三军情报局（Inter-Services Intelligence）是巴基斯坦的间谍机构。这柄大伞下有着众多机构，其中名叫虔诚军（Lashkar-e-Taiba，LeT）的恐怖组织是最成功的：它是2008年孟买袭击的幕后策划者。在巴基斯坦的注视下，...
华盛顿：随着阿富汗加强寻求稳定，暴力和更大范围冲突的威胁也在不断增长。巴基斯坦为 了获得在阿富汗的主导地位和减弱印度的崛起势头，把在国境线两边的民兵和恐怖分子都动员起来了。尽管阿富汗塔利班在与美国和北约的对抗中继续得到巴基斯坦 的支持，但伊斯兰堡已经将此前鼓励反印度叛乱的政策改变成了支持像虔诚军这样的恐怖组织，而2008年孟买致命的恐怖袭击正是该组织策划的。在南亚两个对 手之间的紧张局面依然存在的情况下，这种策略不但增加了新德里和伊斯兰堡之间发生大战的危险，而且面对虔诚军不断增加的势力，...
