In regulating immigration, policy planners anticipate newcomers to assimilate, especially over generations. Most do, but children of immigrant families long settled in France are often intrigued by jihad. Julia Amalia Heyer profiles a French family – the mother atheist and the father Muslim – whose...
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Russia hopes to wield control over bordering states like Ukraine and block them from close ties with the United States and the European Union. The US and EU countered Russia’s military intervention in eastern Ukraine with sanctions and Russia responded by targeting McDonald’s restaurants as...
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald’s. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly...
Unity in Diversity is a motto for both India and Indonesia, and ongoing elections demonstrate that Asia’s two largest democracies have much in common, explains journalist and author Pallavi Aiyar. Election operations are complex and impressive, considering that India has more than 800 million...
Get out the vote: India’s Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Narendra Modi campaigns with the image of a Hindu preacher (top); Indonesia’s Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of PDI-P campaigns with common man
JAKARTA: Although rarely hyphenated in the manner of...
The major economies of the United States, the European Union and China all have potential for global leadership. “The bigger an economy, the greater its systemic importance, and the more leverage its political representatives have in international decision-making,” explain Harold James and...
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Mobile-phone operators are between a rock and a hard place, juggling protections for customers who seek free communications while satisfying demands from controlling governments, explains Sifiso Dabengwa, CEO of MTN, a multinational telecommunications firm based in South Africa. “On the one hand...
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Salafi Muslims promote a fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran, insisting on original Arabic translations and rejecting moderate Muslims as infidels. Freedoms won in Tunisia after the 2011 Arab Spring revolution allowed Salafis to evangelize. Now the government is cracking down on the...
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Nationalism and tensions in the Asia Pacific over small islands echo the mood prior to World War I, argues Gideon Rachman in Financial Times. He compares China to Germany in 1914, a rising power worried about competitors blocking its ascent. A US delegation has advised Beijing and Tokyo that a...
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With disagreement erupting among its 28 member states, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization operation in Libya strains the alliance started in 1949 for mutual defense against external attack. Similar disagreements emerged with interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan. For each military operation,...
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