Democracy requires hard work, patience, compromise and trust. Citizens may be dissatisfied with a leader but must stay informed and engaged in politics. Yet support for democracy around the world is in decline. The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Democracy analyzed data from more...
Before defining or reacting to the word “jihad,” the meaning must be considered in its historical context. This two-part series debates the meaning and role of “jihad” in a modern global society. In Part I, sociologist Riaz Hassan cautions that any interpretation that dismisses jihad as merely a...
White House blessings for Jihadis: President Ronald Reagan received Afghan Mujahideen fighters in the Oval Office in February 1983. Enlarged image
ADELAIDE: The need for a dialogue between Islam and the West has never...
Free trade may offer macroeconomic benefits, but it also claims human victims – laid-off workers who are lucky to find new jobs for less pay. The developed nations of Europe, with established manufacturing centers and generous social benefits, employ a range of strategies to compete globally with...
Vaccinating against unemployment: Danish workers in an insulin producing factory, with jobs secured by flexicurity
WASHINGTON: Sarah Surratt is a serial casualty of the trade wars. For 21 years, Surratt worked for...
Virtually all climate researchers agree that the evidence reveals climate change spurred by human activities is underway. Yet right-wing skeptics reject the science as hoax, equating concern with “an irrational environmentalist religion,” reports Deutsche Welle. They obstinately compare themselves...
Far from being anathema to Islamic societies of the Middle East, globalization has strengthened Islamic fundamentalism in the region by facilitating extensive networks of formerly dissociated Muslims - so says Yale Islamic Studies professor Frank Griffel, in the second half of this series on...
Globalization has boosted the number of hajj pilgrims to Mecca from 79,000 in 1929 to 2 million by the 1980s.
Islamic fundamentalism is often understood as a straight return into a distant past. Its ideology of a revival of the Prophet Muhammad'...
The uprisings in the Arab world – especially in Libya – are slowing economic growth in Bangladesh. Remittances sent from the Arab world represent 12 percent of Bangladesh’s GDP. “Bangladesh depends on remittances from the Middle East more than any other large country,” explains this article in the...
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As the new South Korean Prime Minister begins his first official visit to the United States, North Korea's Central News Agency released a report detailing the central role the United States has played and continues to play in the nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The report is a...
Pyongyang, May 12 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency issued today a detailed report denouncing the united states for reducing to a dead document the joint declaration on denuclearisation issued by north and south...
国际社会质疑巴基斯坦对其日益壮大的核武库的控制能力，这使巴基斯坦感到愤怒。布鲁斯•里德尔（Bruce Riedel）是布鲁金斯学会萨班中东政策研究中心资深研究员，新书《僵局：巴基斯坦、美国以及全球圣战的未来》的作者。他指出，虽然民主选举的文官领导人具有名义上的权威，但军方领导人却掌握着核武器。外部原因在过去被看作是建造核武器的正当理由，但巴基斯坦日益认识到，内部威胁可能超过外部威胁。巴基斯坦最大省份旁遮普的地方长官遭其精锐卫兵的刺杀，这引起更多对敏感位置人事审查机制和未经授权的核技术转让的质疑。这一问题又因为美国在南亚次大陆摇摆不定的政策而变得更加扑朔迷离。...
华盛顿：巴基斯坦核武库正在以全世界最快的速度迅速壮大。该核武库防卫完善，高度隐蔽且分散部署。为防止核武器落入敌人，尤其是美国之手，巴基斯坦军队竭力封锁关于其武器藏匿地的所有消息。巴方军队紧握着巴基斯坦用以抵抗任何外来威胁的核威慑力量，随时准备动用核武保卫祖国。
但国际社会却质疑巴基斯坦的控制能力：核武器会不会落入巴基斯坦国内反对者的手中？巴基斯坦最大的省旁遮普省（Punjab）的地方长官萨勒曼・塔西尔（Salman Taseer）被自己的卫兵暗杀。...