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Pakistan Democracy: Interview with Husain Haqqani

Husain Haqqani
October 15, 2008

New Configuration of Obama’s Asia – Part II

July 23, 2009
China and the US are planning their first combined Strategic and Economic Dialogue against the backdrop of a severe financial crisis and a growing concern over global warming. Such engagements thus provide ample opportunities for collaboration as well as the managing of conflict, according to Shen...

Kerry's Solution to Offshoring

March 27, 2004
Under the US tax system, companies that produce goods abroad wait until the capital reenters the country to pay taxes. According to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, this "tax holiday" structure has led to an increase in foreign investment at the expense of domestic business...

Political Clout in the Age of Outsourcing

April 21, 2006
Americans were once nonchalant about outsourcing – until reports emerged about hospitals sending radiology tests to doctors in India, who provided low-cost accurate readings. Commentators and politicians took notice and debated what such outsourcing would mean for health care. Economists from MIT...

Globalization’s Aftershocks

April 29, 2008
The new world order born out of the fall of the Soviet Union triggered fundamental changes in the global economy, many out of the reach of government regulation. Italian economist and author Loretta Napoleoni, in an interview with Newsweek, defines this trend of trade in unregulated markets as the...

How Bush’s Nuclear Deal Burned Canada

March 24, 2006
To achieve the deal that was the focal point of his recent visit to India, President Bush retracted an original US demand that all of India’s nuclear facilities be classified as civilian facilities and subjected to permanent IAEA monitoring. Under the current agreement – yet to be approved by...

Chinese President Xi Jinping Expresses Concern Over North Korea’s Rhetoric

April 10, 2013
Global consensus is that China holds the most leverage over the Kim regime. As tensions rise, the international community follows every word from top leaders, especially those in China. While not specifically mentioning North Korea, President Xi Jinping noted, “No one should be allowed to throw a...

Pope “Sorry” About Reaction to Islam Remark

September 18, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI issued a rare apology for comments that spurred angry reactions from Muslims around the world, but the Vatican reiterates its opposition to any violence in the name of religion. Extremists reacted to the comments with church bombings in the West Bank and Gaza and the murder of a...
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