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Burma in the US-China Great Game – Part I

December 5, 2011
The ice-breaking visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Naypyidaw ended 50 years of US-Burma estrangement. The Obama administration has signaled desire for US engagement with the pariah regime since 2009, and since March, Burma’s Thein Sein has strived to widen the military regime’s...

Exploited and Far from Home, Some Au Pairs Are Mistreated

August 15, 2003
Working and living abroad as an au pair should be an exciting and rewarding experience for young men and women. It gives them the opportunity to stay with a family while they experience an unfamiliar culture. But this very unfamiliarity – so exciting when the au pairs are warmly received – can...

Pakistan and the Afghanistan End Game – Part I

March 12, 2010
As the US and NATO forces prepare for their gradual withdrawal from Afghanistan, a struggle for influence by Afghanistan’s neighbors has been intensifying and its impact may be felt in an increased terrorist threat from Pakistan-backed groups. In the first of a two-part series on the Afghanistan...

Old Enemies Elect Aoun as Lebanon's President

October 31, 2016
A 29-month standoff ended after the Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president. He is a Maronite Christian with ties to Hezbollah. As part of the deal, Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri, will serve as prime minister – he is son of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri who...

The Atlantic: Trump Issues Scathing Rejection of “Globalism”

September 26, 2018
The US president’s speech before the UN General Assembly undercut the organization’s mission of global cooperation. Instead, he lashed out at what he called an unelectable bureaucracy, lacking accountability: “We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism.” Uri Friedman...

Exports No Longer Sole Path to Economic Rescue

October 24, 2013
The global economy is in flux. Emerging economies await signals of an improving US economy and for Federal Reserve plans to pull back from bond purchases on the order of $85 billion per month. Anticipating an end to those capital flows, investors began withdrawing capital from emerging markets,...

Globe and Mail: Saudi Arabia Breaks Ties With Canada

August 7, 2018
Canadian officials called for the release of civil-rights and women’s rights activists being held in Saudi Arabia and expressed concern about a crackdown on dissidents. “In response, Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador Sunday, recalled their ambassador and frozen new trade dealings with...

Who's Your Big Brother? NAFTA, the EU, and International Trade and Development

May 7, 2007
Economic integration schemes have a powerful impact on growth in developing nations, reports Gerald McDermott, Lazlo Bruszt and Vanesa Sanchez in a paper “International Integration Regimes as Development Programs: A Comparison of EU and NAFTA Accession Processes” for Knowledge@Wharton, an online...
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