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Out of India, A “Third Wave of Globalization” Emerges

October 19, 2006
India has become a source of companies with cash, capable of major takeovers that shake up world industries. Tata – unknown throughout much of the Western world – could become such a global giant with its $10 million bid to purchase Cours Group, a British-Dutch steelmaker. The trend is the “third...

NGO 2.0: Using the Web to Reunite Refugees

March 24, 2009
Anyone can sign up for Facebook; establish unique identities based on name, hometowns and schools; and instantly reconnect with old flames and friends. Danish brothers Christopher and David Mikkelsen realized such a social-networking tool would also be ideal for refugees seeking separated family...

Terrorist Chemical Threat 'Worse than Suspected'

April 11, 2004
Small groups of chemical weapons experts uncovered in Europe appear to have a wide network of links. Two separate groups, one arrested in a Paris suburb by French counter terrorism officials and the other uncovered by British intelligence, are both reported to have received chemical weapons...

EU's Real Brake Isn't Britain but Franco-German Impasse

February 22, 2016
Britain’s prime minister has negotiated a deal, carving out exemptions to its membership with the European Union, and analysts wonder if other members might also try their own negotiations which could “ultimately lead to a disintegration of the union,” reports Paul Taylor for Reuters. Taylor adds...

Pursuing Ambitious Global Goals, But Strategy Is More

January 22, 2013
The world still has high hopes for a transformative second and final term of US President Barack Obama. The president is ambitious and aware, ready to move an agenda to fulfill those expectations, reports David E. Sanger for the New York Times. The United States celebrated the president’s...

Readying for Development

December 12, 2003
President Hosni Mubarak traveled from Cairo to Geneva for the first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with one message: African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American states must work together to develop their capacities as "IT-savvy" states. President Mubarak envisions a well-...

If This Is Ahmadinejad’s Bluff, It Is Bluff Worth Calling

May 15, 2006
A nuclear Iran is undesirable. But starting a war with Iran is the height of folly, argues author Simon Jenkins. Iran offers more avenues for intelligent diplomacy than Iraq did before the US invasion in 2003, but two factors must be recognized: First, Iran is divided and many Iranians desire no...

Jordanian Assaulted

January 10, 2003
With new transportation technology and an integrating world economy has arrived an era in which people can more easily travel for work or pleasure. But expressions of xenophobia may also be on the rise, as an attack on a Jordanian in Germany shows – YaleGlobal .
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