Peace has evaded Afghanistan for decades. The Russians fought in Afghanistan from 1979 until 1989. The brutal Taliban regime, a minority group, took control in the 1990s until the US-led invasion in 2001. Since 2001, the United States and its allies tried to rebuild communities with schools,...
The Bush Administration has thus far opposed the authority of an International Law regime. However, the current job of rebuilding and democratizing Iraq provides the US with an opportunity to change its policy toward International codes of conduct. If the US were to adhere to the International...
THE CHALLENGE OF REBUILDING IRAQ AFTER SADDAM may offer the United States the chance to recover from the crisis of legitimacy it suffered en route to Baghdad. When a prospective U.S. role in postwar Iraq was first...
More, not less, economic integration is good for the world, according to a worldwide poll, conducted by the Pew Global Attitude Survey. David Dollar, Director of Developmental Policy at the World Bank, cites findings from the survey to support the argument he has made in the past that...
The world is welcome to a market in Beijing: Chinese customs move goods faster than India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. (Photo: Nayan Chanda.)
WASHINGTON: A recent worldwide poll may have come as a shock to those who view the anti-globalization...
The notorious Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia has long produced a large portion of the world's illicit drugs. Although authorities in Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, and Laos have had substantial success in ending opium poppy growing, newer technologies are allowing for the production and...
Beyond the menace of terrorism, Northeast India now has to grapple with a fresh, perilous twist in its old companion tale: drugs. With the Thai government cracking down on the trafficking of illegal drugs from Myanmar’s...
Six hundred years ago, France exported slaves from what is today Senegal. Now, the West African country imports jobs from its former colonial master – causing panic in France, but bringing hope to workers at home, writes YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda. More and more French call center companies...
Globalization touching Africa: PCCI call center office in Dakar
DAKAR: In the blue-carpeted office of the PCCI call center, young men and women sit before banks of glowing computer screens, murmuring softly...
Gains by radical parties around the globe highlight democracy’s ongoing vulnerability to anti-democratic movements. Indonesia – with its free press, stable economy, free elections, tolerant and inclusive policy – is no exception. But in local Indonesian politics, the radical Islamic Prosperous...
Resist infidels: Conservative Indonesian Islamic women demonstrate in favor of Sharia law that would prevent infidels from insulting the Prophet
WASHINGTON: Against the backdrop of carnage at Islamabad’s Marriott...
Population growth is linked to conflict, water shortages and resource depletion, climate change and mass migrations. The global population is now 7.3 billion people, up from 2.5 billion in 1950, and is expected to swell to near 11 billion by the end of the century. World leaders convene this week...
Developing population gap: Booming population of Uganda, top, is set to reach same level as that for the United Kingdom – though the UK's was three times larger than Uganda's in 1995
NEW YORK: As world leaders convene for the UN Sustainable...
One measure of an economically secure homeland is women’s willingness to raise children with the expectation of opportunities for good health, education and livelihoods. On that front, Russia confronts a perfect storm – as fertility rates plummeted to 1.2 births per women in the late 1990s and now...
NEW YORK: So much attention is focused on the Russian Federation’s plummeting ruble, evaporating investments and looming recession, following its land grab in Crimea and intervention in Ukraine that most are overlooking the perfect storm brewing...
