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The Big Idea: A Doctrine Passes

October 7, 2002
President George W. Bush's doctrine of preemptive self-defence has got a big thumbs down from an iconic figure of American diplomacy. Commenting on the Bush doctrine in an interview with the New Yorker magazine, George Kennan , the author of the policy of containment and doctrine of deterrence...

Germany: Responsible for Europe’s crisis?

March 22, 2010
Germany’s economic policies have strengthened its domestic economy but weakened Europe’s less developed economies. Low prices, resulting from low wage increases, have made German products more competitive in the European market. Meanwhile, domestic consumption has shown muted growth, allowing...

Wal-Mart in Global Online Push

February 6, 2008
For some companies, the goal is cornering the market. Wal-Mart has announced intentions to offset slowing growth in the world’s leading consumer nation, the US, by promoting internet sales and delivery of groceries and other items throughout Asia and Latin America. For now, Wal-Mart is second only...

中国应对“地域差异”:一个值得西方深入研究的课题

September 16, 2010
西方对于中国发展模式的一个通常预设，是一个由中央政府推动的“大一统”、在各个地区得到无差别实施的发展政策和实践。加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校教授、亚洲研究所主任王国斌则挑战了这种观点。他认为，中国形势远比这种预设要复杂得多。不同的地区有不同的刺激经济政策，而这些不同的省份和地区又能够在一个统一的政治框架之内进行有效的互相协调和合作。比起欧盟的“多重政治权威”运作方式，中国的模式显然要富有效率得多。而且，欧盟政治制度的安排，从本质上妨碍了其在日益一体化的市场中实行有效的金融规制，而中国没有类似困扰欧洲的问题。在刺激经济的计划中，中国采取了一条“财政政策优先于金融政策”的道路，...

China's Rise Threatens to Divide Asia, Not Unite It

August 22, 2005
As the catalyst of Asia's recent economic growth, China has widely been seen as the first non-Western power since Japan to emerge with the potential to transform the global order. Instead of facilitating regional integration, however, China's ascendancy is threatening to divide Asia,...

Huddled Classes

November 21, 2008
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released results of a 2006 study on how migrant children fare in host countries, based on performance in language, math and science. One conclusion is that “almost everywhere immigrant students fare worse than locals,” largely because of...

India Plans Free AIDS Therapy

December 1, 2003
On the eve of an election day in India, the government announced plans to provide free antiretroviral therapy to H.I.V.-positive new parents and H.I.V.-positive children in the six states most affected by the disease. This is part of a larger initiative spearheaded domestically by Sushma Swaraj,...

Real Trade Negotiations Still Lie Ahead

August 1, 2004
The Doha round of trade negotiations started in November 2001 and was scheduled to be wrapping up later this year, but a walkout of representatives from developing nations at the WTO’s Cancun meeting last September delayed the process. Many experts feared that another setback would severely damage...
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