Most Popular

Europe's Lesson, from Brussels to Baghdad

January 13, 2004
Europe's crisis over the ideal constitution for the EU stems from fundamental differences between contending countries, says Bundestag official Wolfgang Schauble. France and Germany's belief in the right of majority rule is their justification for insisting on having their way on certain...

Food Imports: Tough New Checks

February 5, 2003
Thailand’s announcement of more stringent inspections of food imports from the EU and other areas comes after the EU’s own announcement of stricter regulation against Thai food imports. Thai officials claim the new policy is not a retaliation against the EU, whose more rigorous inspections have...

Google Glass to Be “Made in USA”

April 3, 2013
Google Project Glass is a wearable computer, much like a smartphone, that connects a user via voice-recognition software to an array of programs and apps, including maps, email, calendar and more. The company announced that the digital eyewear will be manufactured in California, near the company’s...

In India, Death to Global Business

May 10, 2008
Insurgents attacked an iron-ore processing plant in India, setting equipment, buses and trucks on fire – and warned the officials in Chhattisgarh to stop shipping local resources out of state. The Naxalites, who abide by a Maoist philosophy and resent ownership and capitalism, resort to violence to...

Financial Crisis Belies Myth of US Independence

October 30, 2008
Countries make the mistake of assuming that they can pick their way through globalization – that they can block products from other countries yet sell in those markets, or set rules for others to follow while intending to ignore those same rules at home. No community or country, as economic units,...

Will Japan Emerge from its Shell? – Part II

February 5, 2010
Since the Democratic Party of Japan came to power in August of 2009, upsetting fifty years of conservative rule, US-Japan relations have been on rocky ground. It would seem that the DPJ is upending decades old policies, hewing its own path with the US, China, and the Asia Pacific region. As Asia-...

China’s Poison for the Planet

February 2, 2007
Researchers around the globe are monitoring weather patterns that push the billowing smoke from China’s factories around the globe. The factories that lack state-of-the-art environmental protections produce huge clouds of pollution that know no borders. “Just as trade is global these days, so too...

Democracy May be the Best Ally Against Pakistan's Extremists

March 20, 2009
Pakistan confronts many challenges, on governance, extremism and a war in neighboring Afghanistan that encroaches its own borders. An international focus on eliminating terrorism led to agreements with Pakistani presidents that often bypassed courts and parliament. And that may be an important...
More..