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Archive for July, 2008
Louise Blouin MacBain: Security for Rich & Poor
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Free Trade, WTO | No Comments »
From the forthcoming Summer 2008 issue of World Policy Journal. Many of you are presently suffering from sharp increases in food prices. The main cause of this increase is here to ...Continue reading . . .
Vladimir Kvint: Russia Looks to 2020
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Russia | No Comments »
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union and its disappearance from the political map of the world, the Russian central planning system was abolished. It was an inevitable and positive ...Continue reading . . .
Belinda Cooper: Obama in Berlin
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Berlin, Europe, Germany, Obama | No Comments »
BERLIN, GERMANY—Barack Obama has come and gone, but excitement remains, along with sober analysis. Obama was again on the front of every newspaper the day after his appearance, and most ...Continue reading . . .
Shanker Singham: Free Trade Doesn’t Hurt Middle Class
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Free Trade, Middle Class | No Comments »
Whether you call this a war on the middle class, as Lou Dobbs has, or whether you accept the notion that the middle class are facing lower real wages (inflation ...Continue reading . . .
Shanker Singham: Busting a Free Trade Myth
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 Posted in Free Trade, Globalization | No Comments »
Critics of free trade generally complain that income disparity in the world has vastly increased—that globalization has led to vast and growing inequalities. The larger question is whether inequality is ...Continue reading . . .
Álvaro Baltodano: Nicaragua Surges On Free Trade
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in Free Trade, Nicaragua | No Comments »
Nicaragua has entered a period of economic liberalization and integration to global markets in order to stimulate and develop its national economy. Currently, we have signed free trade agreements with ...Continue reading . . .
Belinda Cooper: Letter from Berlin
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Berlin, Europe, Germany, Obama | No Comments »
Barack Obama will speak to an anticipated crowd of 100,000 people in Berlin tonight, and the city is brimming with anticipation. Pretty much every newspaper and magazine has featured him ...Continue reading . . .
Alon Ben-Meir: Mediating the Nuclear Impasse
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Iran, Israel, Turkey | No Comments »
Iran’s insistence on enriching uranium in defiance of three UN Security Council resolutions, combined with a bevy of antagonistic threats aimed at Israel’s existence has created an explosive recipe that ...Continue reading . . .
Mira Kamdar: The Most Corrupt Democracy
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Democracy, India | 1 Comment »
As India’s parliament debates whether or not to approve the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement today, more than the fate of the deal itself is at stake. The fate of ...Continue reading . . .
Michele Wucker: Citizenship and the Veil
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Citizenship, France, Trade | No Comments »
In the uproar over France's denial of Faiza Mabchour’s citizenship application over her wearing of the niqab, many commentators have found it easy to condemn France for being racist/religionist/whatever-ist you ...Continue reading . . .