The bilateral relationship between Russia and Turkey shifted from strategic partnership to wariness in the course of a year as civil war in Syria intensified. The West has extended limited support to the rebels, including Kurds, while targeting the Islamic State terrorists. Turkey, bordering Syria...
War and diplomacy: US Vice President Joe Biden with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, top; President Vladimir Putin with Erdoğan in happier times
WASHINGTON: In December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to Turkey....
The Olympics are global mega events. The world briefly pauses to admire athletic skill and dedication. The audience also assesses the host city’s customs and capability. Anthropology professor Susan Brownell points out that the Olympic Games are increasingly being hosted by nontraditional powers...
Soaring Olympics price tag: South Korean Yuna Kima at Sochi Winter Olympics, which cost $51 billion (top); the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics cost $43 billion
NEW HAVEN: The withdrawal of Oslo’s bid to host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games has provoked...
Governments and Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, reached an agreement to shift control over the internet from the US government to a global group of stakeholders, explains Maria Farrell, former Icann employee, for the Guardian. The organizers will downplay the shift...
Read the article from The Guardian.
In response to US and European manufacturers' fears of their low-cost Chinese competitors, the European Commission has pressured China to re-impose quotas on clothing and textiles exports. But these measures, like the currency revaluations favored by the Bush administration, will do little to...
In successfully putting pressure on China to impose quotas on clothing and textiles exports to Europe, the European Commission has achieved the trade policy equivalent of injecting Novocaine into a compound fracture. It...
The issue of outsourcing has polarized the intellectual community, and the most recent rebuttal comes from Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson. In a soon-to-be published journal article, the distinguished economist challenges the prevailing theory that the US economy will, in the long-term, benefit from...
Click here for the original article on The International Herald Tribune's website.
Computer technology and the interconnectivity of cyberspace have opened multiple avenues for global networking, while producing the underside of this phenomenon: a new wave of organized cybercrime. Criminals the world over are exploiting the ties of the internet to steal identities, forge...
Click here for the original article on BusinessWeek's website.
Google, the popular internet search engine, has added a billion pages to remain competitive. It currently hosts 35% of all internet searches. But Yahoo and MSN are clipping at Google's heels and hope to overtake it as the leading search engine. Part of Google's success lies in its...
SAN FRANCISCO - Online search engine leader Google added an additional 1 billion pages to its Web index, increasing its breadth by about one-third as it girds for tougher competition from Yahoo! and Microsoft...
印度的青年优势素来被视为一种“人口红利”（demographic dividend）。然而，破败的教育体制无法让毕业生们胜任快速增长的经济中的工作岗位。由于倚重精英学校、忽视早期教育，印度不仅在灵活性、创造力和毕生学习的激情方面，而且在基础技能方面都落后了。美国企业研究所（American Enterprise Institute）的朱利萨•米利根和萨达纳德•杜海姆主张，印度每年有800万青年加入劳动力大军，其中只有被拣选出来的一小部分人是训练有素的。2009年的《教育权法案》旨在让每个印度孩子都享受高质量的教育，可单单有钱并不能保证干得漂亮。...
华 盛顿：尽管经济增速放缓和腐败丑闻频发近来给印度蒙上些许阴霾，大家依然普遍认为印度是崛起中的大国。当人们声称印度的崛起时，其中一个要点便是经济学家 所谓的人口红利：这种论调认为，由于拥有庞大的青年人口，印度将以其庞大的劳动年龄段人口为傲，这些人口能够支撑相对少的退休人员。不过，一旦我们深入考 察印度教育的糟糕状况，便知这种评价没那么确切。
根 据经济合作与发展组织的国际学生评估项目（OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment...
