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Economic Times: India-Japan Strategic Partnership

November 8, 2018
Japan and India, under prime ministers Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe, continue to improve relations as a bulwark against more powerful China and develop balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region. “Both premiers have invested heavily in the bilateral relationship and made sustained efforts to push...

India Urged Again to Pursue Non-Alignment

March 26, 2012
“NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty-First Century” may not have been the most suitable title for a document that strives to offer guiding principles in line with India’s goal of becoming a global power, argues Sumit Ganguly, professor and foreign policy analyst...

Murders at Monarch Sanctuary: Common Dreams

February 5, 2020
The murder of two activists dedicated to protecting monarch butterflies has turned attention to illegal logging in Mexico. “El Rosario sanctuary provides a home for millions of migrating monarch butterflies each year and draws thousands of tourists annually,” reports Julia Conley for Common Dreams...

The New Geopolitics of Food

October 18, 2011
“Prices [of food] are climbing, but the impact is not at all being felt equally,” argues Lester Brown in Foreign Policy. Temperature increases, drying wells, mismanagement of soils, and ever-increasing population growth, with an additional 80 million of people to feed per year, are behind the price...

Preparing for a New Global Threat – Part II

January 28, 2005
Almost as quickly as scientists upgrade vaccinations, communicable viruses are adapting – by genetic mutation – to break through vaccine barriers and transmit faster. Thomas Abraham warns against a "biological tsunami" that is "brewing deep within the microbial world": avian...

Khaleej Times: UAE Tows Icebergs From Antarctica

July 16, 2018
The United Arab Emirates has launched a website to showcase a project that entails towing icebergs from Antarctica to the coasts of UAE. The hope is to use icebergs as new sources of water for the arid region and attract positive press coverage. Researchers aim to collaborate to conduct water...

CNBC: Technology and Globalization Are Eliminating the Middle Class

July 14, 2017
Advances in technology continue to reduce the need for many low-skilled positions in the United States, reported Federal Chair Janet Yellen to the House Financial Services Committee. She also targeted a limited form of globalization – outsourcing workplaces and jobs to other countries – for...

China’s Boomerang Diplomacy

November 16, 2012
China has long insisted its goal is a peaceful rise, but Asia’s largest economy has ruffled the feathers of close neighbors along the way. Hu Jintao, outgoing president, bears some responsibility, suggests Stein Tønnesson of the East Asian Peace program, University of Uppsala. Assertive language,...
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