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Asian Regional Order – US Allies to the Rescue

April 19, 2018
The United States led many Asian allies in working for the region’s rules-based order since World War II. Donald Trump’s “America First” policies and a brush-off for the US State Department fortified the commitment of US allies. The United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in early...

Developing Countries and Global Trade

March 1, 2013
With almost any product – electronics, processed food, even some services – designs and components are sourced from multiple countries. A new report from the UN Commission on Trade and Development suggests that global investment and trade have become “inextricably intertwined through international...

7 Reasons to Expect US Manufacturing Resurgence

August 7, 2012
The US may be a service economy, but it’s still the world’s largest manufacturer. There are many reasons to remain bullish on US manufacturing and the American worker, suggests Farok Contractor, professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School. US firms invest in high-tech...

Open Borders: Scapegoat in COVID-19 Response

April 9, 2020
As COVID-19 spread around the world, more than a hundred countries responded by tightening border controls. Open borders provide numerous beneficial exchanges including research, trade, talent, labor and more, and Samah Rafiq, Fox Fellow at Yale University, argues against closed borders as a norm...

China’s Challenge to a US-Led World Order

March 26, 2019
The United States and the Soviet Union, convinced that their ideologies were incompatible, engaged in a Cold War during the latter part of the 20th century. Some suggest similar hostility emerges between the United States and a fast-rising China. “Chinese leaders repeatedly stress that China...

Victor Hugo’s Chinese Adventures

October 22, 2019
Fiction has the power to deliver insights into complex social challenges, and in the words of China’s President Xi Jinping, “Great works have such a great power to move readers.” Xi is an avid reader, reports the People's Daily, and Victor Hugo is among his favorite authors. The French poet,...

Globalization Boosts Central America’s Film Industry

January 9, 2018
The young film industry in Honduras, a country of 9 million people, struggled to produce a film each year only a decade ago. But the industry boomed in 2017 with more than a dozen films produced. And for the first time, a Honduran film – Morazán - was considered for an Academy Award, joining the...

Clearing Clouds Over the Karakoram Pass

March 29, 2004
Over the latter half of the 20th century, relations between China and Pakistan were anchored in large part on both countries' strategic interest in balancing India as a regional power. The Karakoram Highway, which runs for 500 miles between the two nations, is representative of those...
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