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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Since the advent of the commercial internet more than a decade ago, the US has overseen the administration of that global resource. Now, however, alternatives to the internet are emerging in other nations—a development that is in part a reaction to US control. As other nations push for a greater...
More than a decade after the Internet became available for commercial use, other countries and organizations are erecting rivals to it -- raising fears that global interconnectivity will be diminished.
German...
The urge to do something, anything, to stem the bloodshed in Syria is intense. Ryan Crocker served as US ambassador to six countries including Syria, 1998 to 2001. Now a Kissinger senior fellow at Yale University, he reviews the history and explains how the civil war in Syria began well before the...
NEW HAVEN: The awful conflict in Syria grinds on, with more than 100,000 dead and no end in sight. The calls to “do something” – anything – become louder: arm the rebels, enforce a no-fly zone, send in the Marines. Before the United States acts,...
Around the globe, more women and men are delaying childbirth, with many deciding against having children altogether. Economic recession, high unemployment rates, education and career ambitions contribute to the phenomenon. Among most developed nations, one in 10 women in their late 40s have no...
All the single ladies: Childlessness is no longer rare with women's rising education levels; about one out of four Italian women in their late 40s have no children, top, and in India, it's about one out of 30
NEW YORK: While considerable media...
Amid a severe currency crisis and other economic struggles, cooperation of the European Union, the very union itself, is being tested with the rise of Islamist radicalism in North Africa. France has forcefully intervened to assist Mali troops against extremists who have taken over the northern half...
Towards a new Afghanistan? Islamists and Tuareg rebels overrun towns in Mali’s northern desert (top); French troops flown in to stem their advance
LONDON: As the European Union marks the 50th anniversary of one of its basic treaties, the most...
When Saddam Hussein was in power and was defying the UN, the US and its European allies wrangled over how to bring him into compliance. Now with the Iraqi leader in American custody there is a new opportunity to repair transatlantic relations. But there is also a fresh new hurdle. Writing from...
War-ravaged Iraq: US needs European help to speed up reconstruction.
BRUSSELS: European Union governments, even those which were critical of the Iraq war, have been quick to welcome America's capture of former...
Leaders of developing nations anticipated that negotiations of the Doha Round could lead to even-handed trade practices, particularly in agriculture. With the talks collapsed, the wealthiest nations will not suffer nearly as much as the developing nations, according to trade analyst Edward Gresser...
No field of dreams: Cotton farmers in West Africa are left high and dry by the failure of the Doha Round
WASHINGTON: On Monday, after a meeting designed to give the Doha Round one last try, World Trade...
At the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Bové attended a workshop with prominent Yale scholars and others in the university community to discuss the status of the global peasant movement and the core issues in his work. A full transcript follows. – YaleGlobal
Jonathan Schell:
José Bové is an internationally renowned leader of the movement – and here I'm not sure what phrase to use – the global movement against, I don't think globalization is the right term, but...
