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Opportunities in Globalization

June 13, 2006
The global telecommunications industries are potential sutures to wounds in the US economy brought on by corporate outsourcing to countries with low labor costs, according to Rocco Leonard Martino, the CEO of CyberFone Technologies. The technological advances of the internet provide the US with...

The UN Measures Efforts on Climate Action

September 25, 2019
Developing nations, most vulnerable to rising temperatures and seas while experiencing greater population growth, lead in making preparations on climate change. “China, the United States, the European Union and India, account for just over half of the world’s total GHG emissions,” notes "The...

The Fallout of Pakistani Revelations on North Korea

February 23, 2004
North Korean nuclear programs have long been a puzzle for the international intelligence community to solve. No one is quite sure when they started, how they started, or how far along towards producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium they are. The recent revelation by Pakistani scientist A.Q...

Danger From the East: Bangladeshi Extremists Target India

March 26, 2015
Some political parties try courting extremists, urging them to target political opponents. “Violent street contests between the cadres of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid’s Awami League and former Prime Minister Khalida Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party are weakening the country’s nascent...

Fast, Freewheeling Globalization for All

July 5, 2007
Any attempts to analyze globalization must wrestle with its heady speed. Daniel Altman’s latest book, Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, is one such effort. Altman, who also writes a column on managing globalization for the International Herald Tribune, uses a sample of events from a...

Brexit: The Irish Impasse

February 12, 2019
After centuries of conflict over religion and sovereignty, Ireland and Britain agreed to an Irish Free State in 1921 with the Republic of Ireland founded in 1937. Britain and Ireland joined the European Community in 1973 though tensions did not end. “The Good Friday Agreement that ended the...

A New Battlefield in Thailand

November 24, 2004
The beheading of a Buddhist village leader in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south has provoked worry across Southeast Asia. The murder committed by the Islamic separatists was believed to be in response to the deaths of 84 Muslims at the hands of Thai authorities. Although the level of...

Quartz: Critiquing Child Marriage Policies

February 10, 2017
Regulating longstanding cultural traditions to protect individuals can ignite political backlash. Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, strives to be a champion of women’s empowerment, but proposed legislation that would allow marriage for underage girls who become pregnant is under fire. “...
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