MIT professor Noam Chomsky envisions the potential of “just globalization,” in an interview with Global Agenda, and raises concerns about the lack of truly free trade and evenhanded governance within the changing global business climate. Contending that everyone favors globalization, or “...
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President Barack Obama begins travels this week to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines as the United States strives to convince Asian allies that a pivot to Asia is real. An indicator of US policy success is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact being negotiated by 12 Pacific Rim...
Road to security through trade: US President Barack Obama visits Japan to win support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord (top), opposed by Japan’s farmers and autoworkers
MEDFORD: President Barack Obama’s trip to four Asian nations is...
More than two years after the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Japan that destroyed the Fukushima nuclear power station, the power company and government still do not have radiation under control. Russia has repeated an offer to assist in the cleanup. In the globalized nuclear industry, all accidents...
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With nearly 100 countries playing the game, rugby portrays itself as a global sport. Still, major reforms are required of its governing body to shed an elitist tag and give due recognition to upcoming “minnow” countries, argues this essay from the Economist. Huge resource gaps exist between the...
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In a wide-sweeping question and answer session following a speech at Yale University, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan emphasized that peace and security in the international order were the responsibility of all nations, not only the US. The UN Security Council was charged with this...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Answering questions put to him by Yale University students regarding US plans to attack Iraq, Kofi Annan said that countries deciding to take action against other countries, not because they have been threatened...
Ever since Burma declared martial law in 1988, relations between it and the US have been strained. But as Burma expert David Steinberg writes, with the visit this week by Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell as well as a recent trip by Virginia Senator Jim Webb there are signs of a thaw....
WASHINGTON: With the trip this week by the first senior US executive branch official to Burma in about fifteen years, Washington has taken an important step. The policy gap between the US and Burma/Myanmar governments is acute, as it has hurt the...
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a huge mandate in last Sunday's elections, but for reasons that differ from many commentators' suggestions. By calling the elections following the rejection of his post-office privatization bill, Koizumi artfully framed the debate as...
Standing Tall: Japan's Junichiro Koizumi savors his landslide win: China has reasons to worry. (Photo: Reuters)
TOKYO: Sunday's election in Japan has been mistakenly described as a referendum on reform, as Prime...
This past Tuesday, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer joined his counterparts in Brazil, Japan, and India in announcing their intention to seek permanent UN seats. Germany's case to join the five permanent members on the Security Council seems compelling: According to Fischer, Germany,...
F.A.Z. Weekly. In the German government's pecking order, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is also the country's vice chancellor. But Fischer got a promotion of sorts when he met on Tuesday with three heads...
