Responding to the recent flood of bad publicity about the potential loss of French jobs to Polish immigrants, Poland has come up with a marketing plan to improve its reputation in France. Hiring a model to pose as a "Polish plumber" – a figure who has come to symbolize French labor...
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The process of globalization continues to produce new surprises. Thomas L. Friedman, whose 1999 classic “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” has been translated in 30 languages, offers an update on globalization since his last interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda a year ago. Friedman says that...
Thomas L. Friedman
The following is a partial transcript of Nayan Chanda's interview with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman conducted on March 25, 2004.
Nayan Chanda:...
'American imperialism' has become a common refrain for people seeking to understand the glue holding together the current international order. A variety of scholars and commentators claim authority on the topic, says author Jonathan Schell. But, he cautions, in their rush to proclaim...
L. Paul Bremer III, Chief US administrator in Iraq: Does he have the political power to hand it over to the Iraqis? (Photo: AFP)
NEW HAVEN: In the wake of September 11, 2001, American political observers have...
Germany was once at the forefront of plutonium technological development, but with the rise of the Green party, the technology was abandoned due to its environmental and health risks. Now one of Germany's unused plants is likely going to be exported to China. Commentator Stefan Dietrich...
The expected uproar over the likely export of a plutonium plant to China has now been raised - not by the three Green party ministers in Germany's coalition government, but among second and third-level...
Security is essential for economic viability, and the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels suggest that European Union leaders underestimated the jihadist influences within their cities and the aggression near its borders. EU leaders must master geopolitics, influencing regional events and...
The Union at a turning point: The airport in Brussels, the European Union’s capital, after a terrorist attack, top; and tens of thousands of refugees march towards Europe
BRUSSELS: The terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, following those in...
Trade – along with the accompanying fears over foreign competition, job loss and reduced wages – is a hot issue for the US presidential campaign and elections elsewhere. Ajai Gaur and Ram Mudambi, professors of international business strategy at Rutgers University and Temple University, analyze...
Taken for granted: Foreign firms, including a Toyota plant in Kentucky, pay high wages and link local firms to global value chains, top; US manufacturers like Boeing both export and import
NEWARK, PHILADELPHIA: Trade typically figures prominently in...
Advance public announcements on research plans can lead to market manipulation. Leaders of developed nations – weary of instability in nations that supply oil and high prices – openly seek energy alternatives. But oil markets respond to the chatter about alternative energy in two ways: Some...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, troubled by a YouTube video that criticized Islam, took steps to shut down the popular video website in Pakistan. The authority created a dummy site, leading viewers who expected YouTube to a blank site. Such tactics are not unusual in countries that...
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