The European Union may strengthen after voters in the United Kingdom elected to withdraw from the Union, and Chris Miller, associate director of Yale’s Grand Strategy Program, offers analysis as to why: Britain’s economic challenges could prompt hesitation among other members contemplating a...
Falsehoods and second thoughts: Britain’s Brexit proponent Boris Johnson gave false hopes to voters, top, while Austria’s far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has chosen to support EU
NEW HAVEN: Events since the Brexit vote suggest that...
Proposed US immigration reform may include tough rules to weed out IT sourcing companies that are believed to abuse the H-1B visa system for skilled scientists and researchers. Program abuses include undercutting wages and hiring workers with skills that duplicate those already available among US...
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Throughout 2011, protests that came to be known as the Arab Spring swept through Northern Africa and the Middle East. NATO stepped in on the Libyan protests, restricted to civilian protection. But the US gave a nod to Qatar sending machine guns, ammunition to rebels in the Libyan rebels; France...
The French connection: Mali Islamist rebels linked to Al Qaeda in Maghreb confront (top) the French expeditionary force landing in a former colony
WASHINGTON:France has taken up the challenge of defeating Al Qaeda’s new stronghold in northern Mali,...
The rich are different, as noted by more than one literary figure. To assist a struggling economy and keep pace with Canada, the US and other nations, Great Britain will relax some immigration rules to entice wealthy families and entrepreneurs from emerging economies like China, India and the...
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spain's Jose Maria Aznar have joined France and Germany in demanding that the United Nations play the central role in administering and rebuilding post-Saddam Iraq. Not only does the UN have the experience and the expertise to handle Iraq's...
The flame of competition: Europeans are unhappy that first contracts, including that for extinguishing burning Iraqi oil fields, have gone to American companies. (Photo: AFP)
BRUSSELS: Transatlantic battles over post-war Iraq look set to become...
The global economy is in a shambles, due to a credit crunch, uncertain values of homes and other assets, and complex loan packages that few people understand. US President George Bush convened a meeting of 20 major economies and acknowledged that emerging economies like China, India and Brazil...
Calls for global negotiations to resolve the growing crisis have been heard for some time. But this time, it is the very real threat of the global economy teetering on the edge that brought about the first meeting of the Group...
The warnings on protectionism are dire. Economists and historians repeatedly remind us about the danger of sliding into protectionism embodied in the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. By raising import tariffs on thousands of goods, inviting retaliation, causing collapse of international...
Protective steel: American steelworkers and their congressional representative
on Capitol Hill; protectionist temptation is hard to resist
NEW HAVEN: The world economy has a metastasizing cancer and the doctors do...
Japanese consumers take environmental protection into account while choosing products, even suggesting in surveys that they don’t mind spending extra to purchase environmentally-friendly products. So the Japanese government has devised an intricate system to calculate and inform consumers on labels...
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