The United States was undisputed leader of economic globalization until the 2008 global financial crisis. The country’s moral and economic leadership has since gone into decline. The US share of global gross domestic product has dropped for more than 20 years, from 32 percent to 22 percent. This...
Neighbors that trade: Canada and Mexico are top US trade partners for agricultural machinery; ASEAN, China, Japan, India, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand plan for the largest trade deal that would cover about half the world’s population...
The video of George Floyd, pleading for his life, handcuffed and his neck under a police officer’s knee, has moved the world to denounce unequal justice and police abuses. “Across the internet, supporters of Black Lives Matter are weaponizing tweets, posts, and hashtags to spread information,...
Christianity emerged in the Middle East some 2000 years ago, spreading rapidly throughout the Levant countries along the Mediterranean, then beyond, to become a global force. But in the Middle East, the numbers of Christians dwindle, with rights of Levant Christians trampled since the 2003 invasion...
NEW HAVEN: The voice at the other end of the phone line from Beirut suddenly became nervous. “No, no, no, please!” the panicking nun said. “You cannot mention my real name, you understand, what we are doing is illegal.”
This is why I call her...
Politicians try to rile or sooth citizens as needed with a few select details of globalization. Yet with the speed and far-reaching nature of modern trade, travel and communication, these attempts to corral bits and pieces of globalization are futile. A savvy public – young or old – comes to...
Marching past: Young Iranians embrace western fashion, leaving the Mullahs fuming
TEHRAN: For now, the Iranian regime has regained the upper hand over protestors who dispute both the June 2009 presidential election results and the mullahs’ hold on...
China claims it plans to stay in Afghanistan much longer than the United States. While it has no military presence there, it does have a major investment: a copper mine that should bring billions of dollars in profit. But this investment is in some ways possible only because of the security...
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Patterns continue for the Middle East: a failure of power sharing and representation for countries with Shia-Sunni divisions, and religious extremists taking advantage of the instability and power vacuums. Al Qaeda has quickly wrested control of Zinjibar and Jaar in Yemen even as the government...
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Mainstream economic models failed to predict the 2007 global economic crisis. In an essay for CaixinOnline, Andrew Sheng suggests that the models overlook the impact of uncertainty and that fragmented analysis neglects global connections: “[S]pecialists and departmental agencies know more and more...
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Both inequality and slow economic growth result from a particular from of exclusion, argues Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University, in an essay for Project Syndicate. Growth varies around the world and also within countries, and Hausmann points...
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