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Dead Parrot Trade Talks

March 29, 2011
Failure to complete the decade-old Doha Round of trade talks would severely weaken the World Trade Organization. An original deadline set for January 2005 has long passed. Jagdish Bhagwati, a leading trade economist, urges setting another deadline: Complete the Doha Round by the end of the year, or...

Stop Slapping the Allies, Secretary Gates

February 26, 2010
NATO was formed as a defensive alliance: to protect Western Europe from the Soviet Union. Now, with the war in Afghanistan testing NATO’s ability to shift gears and become an offensive union, the organization seems to be failing. Participation has been lackluster, and efforts to coordinate NATO...

Chanting “Russia Without Putin,” Flash Mobs Roil Moscow

December 9, 2011
Russians are using social media to report vote rigging by authorities and organize flash protests in the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. “For more than a decade, Russians appear to have quietly accepted Vladimir Putin's system of ‘managed democracy,’” writes Fred Weir for...

Thousands Trapped in Kenyan Camp

January 29, 2003
America's heightened security in response to September 11 is holding up the flow of refugees into the US. People fleeing from war-torn Sudan and Somalia wait in camps in Kenya for immigration approval and security clearance. A process that once took six months now takes at least a year as...

Polio Cases Jump in Pakistan as Clerics Declare Vaccination an American Plot

February 22, 2007
Pakistan’s remote northwestern frontier, one of the few remaining hotspots of polio in the world, has been a major focus of efforts to eradicate the disease. Now, however, health workers in Pakistan face a new obstacle: political fallout from the US-led war on terror. Local tribal and religious...

Unless Two Imbalances Can Be Fixed, Two New Crises Will Follow This One

June 8, 2010
Huge trade imbalances, particularly between China and the US, Germany and the rest of Europe, ensure low interest rates and ongoing bubbles, contends Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute. Ongoing lending at low rates to nations already steeped in debt dulls incentives to increase competitiveness...

Job Subsidies May Clash with EU Law

November 15, 2002
EU antitrust regulation has placed strict restrictions on government subsidies to private businesses. The German government’s plan to create jobs by financing job placement agencies and temporary employment contracts may contradict EU policy, and infringement proceedings against the country are...

Restored

December 13, 2007
After World War II, Korea was divided into two nations, north and south. The Korean War began after forces from the north invaded the south in 1950, after rival factions could not agree on a system of governance. Train service crossing the border ended in 1951 and did not resume after the 1953...
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