The legitimacy of multinational corporations has been increasingly questioned in recent years. In this two-part series, Harvard professor George C. Lodge and International Finance Corporation economist Craig Wilson argue that multinational corporations (MNCs) have contributed enormously to...
BOSTON, Massachusetts, and DHAKA, Bangladesh: The world’s multinational corporations – 63,000 of them at last count – frequently find themselves the target of criticism by the world’s anti-globalization protesters. MNCs...
China plans to initiate several wealthy entrepreneurs into the central committee of the Communist Party on November 8. Because the Communist Party outranks all other governmental structures, its new members may be able to wield significant power. China’s president is spearheading the move; he...
China plans to admit a handful of prominent entrepreneurs into the central committee of the Communist party, the boldest proposal yet in Beijing's fledgling initiative to change the fundamental nature of the ruling...
US policy in Iraq following the 2003 invasion focused on imposing democracy. But this policy has only served to perpetuate sectarian allegiance divided roughly along religious or ethnic lines, according to Middle East expert Fawaz A. Gerges. The effects endure today: the recent Iraqi parliamentary...
LONDON: The second Iraqi parliamentary elections – rare in an Arab country – proved to be a damp squib. Contrary to the expectations about how a successful electoral exercise might set off democracy fever in the Middle East, the Baghdad ballot was...
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...
Author Suketu Mehta moved to America from India as a teenager with the expectation that it would bring him and his family economic prosperity. As he writes in The New York Times, future generations of Americans may find themselves trying to travel in the opposite direction, as more US companies...
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The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS, designates boundaries for the seas, sorting out nation’s rights to fish and exploit other resources, including gas and oil. An offshore island, defined as a naturally formed feature with an economic function, is entitled to a 200-nautical-mile...
Scarborough Shoal standoff: Philippines Navy keeps wary eye on Chinese ship (top); anger erupts in Philippines street
CANBERRA: The term “rocky relations” took on new meaning after Chinese civilian maritime enforcement ships confronted a Philippines...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made fewer public appearances throughout 2020 than he did during the same period a year ago, and whether that is due to the Covid-19 pandemic or other reasons is unknown. “Although only 36, he could be a candidate for a health event,” writes Mike Chinoy, author...
Top secret: The Kim family has controlled North Korea since 1948 and when leaders go out of sight, global security analysts speculate on transition – Kim Jong Un met with US President Trump in 2019, left, and his sister Kim Yo Jong joined a meeting...
Laos’ hosting of the Southeast Asian Games is in some way a metaphor for the country’s entrance into the globalized world. And Laos has crossed that threshold holding China’s hand, according to journalist Bertil Lintner. As a land-locked country, Laos decided to become “land-linked” to China. In...
Big brother, big game: Chinese built the stadium in Laos, Chinese official Jian Qinglin meets Laos' Sisavath Keobounphanh
VIENTIANE: The slow emergence of Laos, once the backwater of French Indochina, since the end of the Vietnam War has got a huge...
