Mobile phone networks connect people and the exchange of ideas on issues small and grand. Isa Saharkhiz, activist and journalist, was arrested during Iranian post-election protests in summer 2009. His interrogators admitted to using Nokia Siemens Networks equipment to monitor his mobile phone calls...
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The world has become too dependent on oil for security and comfort. Conflicts leading to disruptions in oil supply were behind past price shocks, but the most recent shock has been largely spurred by tightening supply and rising demand from emerging economies, explains historian and journalist...
The green way: Japan, out front on the energy crisis, has achieved efficiency by
developing alternative-energy products, like this Mazda fuel-celled car
LONDON: With the price of oil rocketing to the unprecedented level...
The US, struggling to control violence in Iraq, has ratcheted up its threat against neighboring Iran as a primary culprit. Longstanding US concerns about Iran defying the international community by developing nuclear weapons have recently been heightened by its accusation that the Islamic state has...
An unusual guest: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) is greeted by Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh.
Will the hand holding mark a new beginning?
LONDON: The news coming from the Middle East of late spoke of...
Implementation of the WTO’s trade liberalization rules marginalizes and hurts developing countries, says this opinion article in The Hindu, one of India’s largest newspapers. Trade liberalization is designed to eliminate tariffs and other barriers to trade, but developing countries cannot compete...
AGRICULTURE, THE foundation of food and national security, was redefined as an issue of trade and commerce alone during the Uruguay Round of GATT with agribusiness MNCs as the determining force in the shift. The WTO...
“NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty-First Century” may not have been the most suitable title for a document that strives to offer guiding principles in line with India’s goal of becoming a global power, argues Sumit Ganguly, professor and foreign policy analyst...
BLOOMINGTON: If the purpose of a book cover is to draw readers’ attention, the recent document on Indian foreign policy was a huge success. Entitled NonAlignment 2.0 – a principle during the early Cold War that most sensible commentators deemed...
New challenges and innovations put economies in constant transition, but Covid-19 has applied an abrupt halt to economic activity for most of the world. Huge shifts were already underway in global energy markets with the rise of shale gas and renewables before the pandemic. Societies must prepare...
Managing change: The Covid-19 pandemic offers a preview on the need to prepare for energy transition – the Kentucky National Guard, left, assists a food bank, and trade unions urge the European Commission to balance clean-energy innovation with...
International law protects asylum seekers fleeing persecution in their home countries, ready to provide evidence that they belong to a protected class that includes race, religion, nationality, political leanings. Even so, the Trump administration is trying to impose limits, specifically targeting...
A rising China since 1980 has changed the global trade landscape. The world’s leading manufacturer, the largest trading nation and second largest economy has displaced the United States from its traditional dominance. Roland Rajah and Alyssa Leng analyzed bilateral trade data from the International...
