The United States may no longer view itself as the world’s leading advocate for military engagements or multilateral efforts to promote freedom, democracy and human rights, suggests a study by the Pew Research Center. Americans are war weary, and about half of 2000 adults surveyed in the fall 2013...
Tired of a mission: Americans demonstrate outside the White House to oppose war against Syria; in 2003 former US President George W. Bush lands on USS Abraham Lincoln to proclaim the completion of US mission in Iraq
WASHINGTON: The global image of...
The speed of communications, travel and globalization in general has transformed international relations. World order is no longer unipolar or multipolar; it is more like a multiplex theater than a chessboard, argues Amitav Acharya, in an article based on his new book, “The End of American World...
Beginning of the end? Last US prisoner retrieved from Afghanistan (top); new alliance in the making as Russia and China hold joint exercise, Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands with Russian naval...
The following is a transcript of Nayan Chanda's interview with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman conducted on March 25, 2004.
Nayan Chanda: We are pleased to welcome Thomas Friedman, the NYT columnist and author of “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” back to Yale. Tom, you were here about a year ago - exactly February of last year - and we asked...
US voters elected Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, and globalization was pummeled. The United States is deeply divided over policies on trade, immigration and alliances for financial, environmental and national security. Democracy was tarnished, too as some politicians...
Claiming the prize: Reality TV star Donald Trump is poised to claim the White House; women whom he insulted will remain unhappy citizens
MEDFORD: It's Brexit all over again. Donald Trump, a candidate who managed to offend most demographics, shocked...
The League of Arab States has broad goals – strengthening ties among member states, coordinating policies and promoting common interests. Rarely does the Arab League embrace military action to restrain a member state or intervene directly in uprisings, notes Dina Ezzat for Al-Ahram in an essay that...
Since the beginning of this year, the Arab League has been faced with one insurrection after another in the Arab world and in both republics and monarchies.
Yet, aside from recent moves made against the Libyan regime, the organisation has made...
Hit by gloomy news of global recession, consumers sharply curtailed purchases of luxury goods, putting millions of jobs in jeopardy. It took India four decades to position itself as a world leader in processing diamonds, reports Neeta Lal for the Asia Sentinel, but recession in the US reduced...
Kishore Hali, 22, a diamond polisher at an industrial unit in Saurashtra, in India's western state of Gujarat, was the sole breadwinner of his eight-member family. When his unit shut its doors last month, the youth...
Cosmopolitan cities like Paris, London and France are vulnerable to terrorist attacks, yet also resilient. The Islamic State’s would-be caliphate imposed by coercion and violence on communities in Iraq and Syria suffering from power vacuums could never hope to match the allure of Paris and French...
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A suggestion by the Greek prime minister for a referendum on a proposed European bailout – negotiated by European leaders to continue lending to Greece while erasing half the nation’s debt –was bashed by financial markets and Western leaders. Analysts anticipated an angry Greek electorate to reject...
Two thousand years ago, Greece introduced the world to the concept of democracy. But a Greek decision this week to hold a referendum on whether to stay in the Eurozone has shocked the world and threatens further financial turmoil. Under pressure...
