Elections and turnover in administrations can abruptly shift US foreign policy, as onlookers throughout the Asia Pacific have observed in recent years. The US-Chinese relationship is of global consequence, and this two-part series analyzes reaction to the two-nation summit for any signs of warmth...
LONDON: China’s President Hu Jintao went to Washington seeking “common ground,” but he met with an Obama administration that’s become more hard-nosed in its approach to China than during its previous two years.
The most consequential challenge for...
A powerful recourse for human rights victims is in danger, says Harold Hongju Koh, Professor of International Law at Yale University and former US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. In response to a lawsuit brought by Burmese citizens against the US energy...
Buddhist monk denounces a US corporation: Now you can protest, but not sue. (Photo: The Karen Human Rights Group)
NEW HAVEN: The Bush Administration has jumped into one of the thorniest of legal thickets, and come down on the wrong side. In a...
The Israeli-Palestinian divide is so deep and the world has so many pressing economic and security challenges, it’s no surprise that many foreign-policy experts put the Middle East low on any US priority list. But the longstanding plight of millions of Palestinians in the occupied zones...
Crisis management? The world looks on as Israelis block an aid flotilla and peace talks languish
NEW HAVEN: The flotilla incident off Gaza serves to remind us of the broad spillover effects of the long-simmering conflict between Israel and the...
Stock-market indexes have tumbled like dominos around the globe, exposing vulnerability of intricate economic connections. A crisis in one nation – and the panic – can quickly bounce from one country to the next. A major cause behind the stock-market plunges the world over are US financial...
Foreclosures rise in the US, markets fall worldwide: In an integrated global economy, a massive stock-market sell-off frightens shareholders like these in Mumbai
MEDFORD: The recent meltdown in global stock markets is the first truly global...
President Obama continues his first trip to Asia this week provoking diverse responses from different parts of the world. The talk of a “strategic partnership” between China and the US making a G2 has Europe scared. But, according to China specialist François Godement, there are too many...
Duopoly fear: President Obama with Chinese President Hu Jintao, too close for comfort?
PARIS: The specter of the G2 – a China-US condominium – is haunting European governments as much as the specter of revolution haunted its courts in the days of...
Nations that engage in trading are not immune from the global economic crisis, as it spreads first throughout the trade-deficit, consumption nations and then on to the trade-surplus, producer nations, explains finance professor Michael Pettis for the Financial Times. Pettis offers three ways for...
Click here for the article on The Financial Times.
In his first week in office, US President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay. But other countries are not stepping forward to accept the prisoners, as reports emerge about former Guantánamo inmates charged with plotting new crimes. The US has...
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US dominance of international affairs is becoming increasingly archaic, asserts Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rather than a multipolar model of states balancing power, Haass sees the 21st century segueing into a nonpolar international system, where the United States...
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