Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman
While there is no clear consensus for invading Iraq, the international community agrees that Iraq must not be given any alternative to eliminating its banned weapons. Joe Clark, Canada’s 16th Prime Minister, and Alton Frye, Presidential Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argue that...
Facing Saddam's sword: It's better to push him against the wall.
"It is important to push the Iraqis up against a wall and not leave them any way out regarding the questions which they must answer and on which really active cooperation is...
Food prices have doubled during the past two years, and Moisés Naím of Foreign Policy observes that politicians, journalists and economists often blame the recent hikes on growing demand by rising middle classes in the developing world. But Naím cautions against blaming people in India and China...
There are many culprits we can blame for higher food prices. But the poor isn’t one of them.
The spike in food prices is a global crisis, and it is destabilizing politics and economics everywhere. Food prices...
Trade has not been a priority for the Bush administration, and negotiations have stalled over a free-trade agreement between the US and South Korea. Meanwhile, South Korea has lots of leverage and plenty of alternative markets, including China. The inability of the US to reach such a major trade...
Sovereign concerns: South Korean farmers' demand for protection, rejected by the US, gets sympathetic hearing in Europe
WASHINGTON: Efforts to create a US-South Korea free-trade area, commercially the most...
In a recent interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda, Kemal Dervis, former Minister of Economic Affairs in Turkey and author of the book A Better Globalization, talks about reforming the United Nations Security Council and the role of international financial institutions. Excerpts of the...
Nayan Chanda:
The first question I'd like to ask is this issue of North Korea's declaring to have nuclear weapons. That issue brings the question or world security right to the doorstep of the United Nations...
Technology, including robotics, is allowing more mining firms to explore the ocean floor for oil and minerals, as “surveys have revealed huge numbers of so-called nodules – small lumps of rock rich in valuable metals – lying on the ocean floor south of Hawaii and west of Mexico,” reports David...
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Debate rages in the West about whether the internet in authoritarian states is a tool for winning freedoms or another device for control. In the wake of Egypt’s mass protests emerged the first case of a government’s attempt to sever an entire nation from internet access. This YaleGlobal series...
The day the internet died in Egypt: An empty internet café in Cairo (top); protester in Tahrir square demands the restoration of Facebook, which has been their organizing tool
MANCHESTER, NH: For years, the internet community has monitored the...
Since 2014, two factions have divided Libya: Libyan National Army forces in the east led by Khalifa Haftar, supported by the UAE, France and Russian mercenaries, versus Fayez Serraj's Government of National Accord in the west, recognized by the United Nations and supported by Turkey and Syrian...
