The internet, smartphones and social media have transformed crisis communications even in countries where leaders strive for tight control. The public expects fast, regular updates, and refusing comment is no longer an option. Russia learned this during summer of 2019 as wildfires raged in Siberia...
Playing with fire: Social media messages proliferate with big protests, and hashtags like #SiberiaIsBurning caught the attention of Moscow demonstrators in June 2019 even though the city is more than 3,000 kilometers from where the wildfires began (...
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”...
About 13 million foreigners make up about 70 percent of the workforce in six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Governments in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar worry about their societies’ over-reliance on foreign help. Increasing unemployment...
The percentage of expatriates in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries grew from 22.9 in 1975 to 37.1 in 2004, constituting about 70 percent of the workforce. However, a number of changes on the ground during...
The world’s most troublesome borders for illegal migration have one thing in common – more older people on one side than the other. Large gaps in the median age on either side show a difference of 19 years for Northern Africa and Southern Europe, and 11 years for the United States and Central...
Migration flow across age-divide: Young Africans seek to escape poverty, top, by moving to aging Europe with its growing demand for labor
NEW YORK: Unmanageable migration at international borders has become increasingly burdensome and, as the...
US intelligence agencies briefed Donald Trump in late February on reports that a Russian military intelligence unit paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to two sources, reports the New York Times. The White House claims the report...
Four days ago, Pakistani President Musharraf pardoned nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, called him a national hero, and declared that Pakistan would not allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to inspect its nuclear sites. Several members of Musharraf's government have...
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Sunday that the issue involving nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was now a settled one.
Talking to reporters at Sukkur Airport, he said there...
Seven years after 9/11, views on the Islamist threat remain polarized and both are flawed, argues journalist and author Sadanand Dhume: The right overplays the danger to Europe and the United States, while the left underestimates its impact on Muslim-majority countries. Ironically, the very...
Power and faith: Indonesian Muslims pray at a mosque. Outside Islamists wage war on liberalism
WASHINGTON: In the years since 9/11 two broad narratives have emerged in the West to explain the nature of the so-...
