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Workers’ Paradise?

January 17, 2008
The expansion of global trade eroded the status of national and local unions. Yet as many workers in the world’s wealthiest nations worry about the status of their jobs, politicians who want to win and stay in office increasingly respond to the anxiety by pandering to unions. “After decades of...

Free Trade and Environment (Q&A)

Carl Pope
April 19, 2002

The World Can't Wait for “Indy”? It Won't Have To

May 19, 2008
When it comes to the release of mega-hit films, the world is impatient. Films, like “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” are “released on the same day in cities around the world, in a mass moment of pop culture consumption,” writes William Booth for the Washington Post. Much has...

伊朗的参与使《核武器不扩散条约》的审议面临挑战

May 3, 2010
俗话说，扬言要制造、拥有或使用核武器，无助于赢得朋友或左右邻国，特别是在越来越多的国家都拥有核武器的时候。本月，180多个国家齐聚联合国，从今天开始，继续五年一度的常规审议和谈判，目的在于缩减核武器。防止核扩散专家伦纳德.S.斯佩克特（Leonard S. Spector）解释说，由于联合国《核武器不扩散条约》（Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty）审议会议做出的决议是各方一致同意的结果，因此，审议和谈判的进展也十分缓慢。各国均设法使自己成为例外，却试图孤立有意如此的其他国家。可以预计，当各国继续讨论在中东设立无核武器区、...

Iraq Panel Calls Conditions “Grave and Deteriorating”

December 6, 2006
Iraq is in a “dire” state, and immediate diplomacy is essential for preventing the national conflict from expanding into a regional one, spreading chaos throughout the Middle East. The Iraq Study Group released a long-awaited report today with 79 recommendations and few surprises. The report,...

Measuring Geopolitics Risks

Dario Caldara and Matteo Iacoviello

US and China Must Tame Imbalances Together

Michael Pettis
January 6, 2009

EU-US Summit: Hands Across the Ocean

April 27, 2007
Despite persistent fears in the West about emerging competition from developing economies, a more immediate concern for Americans and Europeans is their own trade relationship. While the people of the European Union and the US together make up barely 10 percent of the world's population,...
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