Europe cannot agree on more bailouts for Greece, and since electing a new leftist government, Greece is failing to offer a plan on how it will repay its heavy debt, reports an article in Spiegel Online. This opens the possibility of the nation’s exit from the European Union: “Greece's...
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Visions of a united Europe are under strain as anti-EU parties have made political gains in France, Sweden, the UK and other nations. Although the European Union is often thought of as a “United States of Europe,” journalist Pallavi Aiyar argues that the EU more resembles chaotic India. “India,...
Balancing democracy with diversity: Fear of euro breakup as UK Prime Minister David Cameron differs with partners such as Germany's premier Angel Merkel (top); India gets a stable government with a single party dominated coalition, BJP Prime...
Latin America is rich in natural resources, including oil, minerals and agricultural crops, all desired in the global markets. At the same time, China has become the world's largest importer of cotton, copper and soybeans as well as the second-largest oil importer. Latin America can secure...
Abundance of riches: Global customers eye Latin America's rich natural resources. To protect the region's citizens, policies must promote sustainability rather than quick sales
WASHINGTON: Latin America is increasingly...
Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, 25, upends many people’s assumptions about a candidate for parliament – and not just because of her age. The young social worker is a devout Muslim who declines to shake hands with men and wears a traditional headscarf, but also supports progressive Danish policies including...
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Immigration, trade and many other aspects of globalization are interwoven into daily routines, taken for granted, and some opponents contend that communities and entire countries can easily sever the connections. G20 leaders, meeting in Hangzhou, China, must address global stagnation and populism...
Read the article. Peter Drysdale is a professor emeritus and head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and editor-in-chief of the East Asia Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. This article is...
Worrying that US President Bush’s "road map" agenda for the end to the Israel-Palestine conflict will fall through, Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel, and other members of the Saban Center's Israeli-Palestinian Workshop have proposed an alternative solution. They...
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The second Palestinian intifada will soon enter its fourth year. Both Israelis and Palestinians have become exhausted by the worst violence in the history of their bloody conflict, and yet...
Rivalry between India and China over the Doklam region of Bhutan continued through the summer despite otherwise strong bilateral trade relations among neighbors. Bhutan is in the middle as India is determined to counter China’s hegemony. China insists in documents that the issue concerns only...
A populist movement is gathering momentum in Latin America. Moderate socialist candidate Michelle Bachelet has just been elected as the first female president of Chile. More radical Peruvian presidential candidate Ollanta Humala’s support has also been rising rapidly in recent polls. Humala is a...
In the latest sign of the populist wave coursing through Latin America, presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a left-wing opponent of free trade and free-market policies, has surged to the top of the polls ahead of...
