The First Decade of the 21st Century: Five Remarkable Accomplishments
By: The Globalist | Monday, January 11, 2010
The first decade of the 21st century has been quite awful, both for what happened and also for all the opportunities lost — that is, what did not happen. Nevertheless, five achievements of the past decade stand out.
Annual Forecast 2010
By: Stratfor - Strategic Forecasting | Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The dominant theme of 2009 was the global recession. A series of financial developments in the United States damaged the U.S. banking system and spread from there to the rest of the global economy. The recovery in place is unsteady, but appears to have put down sufficient roots to hold.
‘Taiwan wants to become party to Clean Development Mechanism’
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, December 14, 2009
In an interview with European Business Review, Patrick Wang, information director of the Taiwan Representation to the EU in Brussels, made clear that Taiwan (Republic of China) seeks engagement in corporate carbon credit trade via the Clean Development Mechanism.
How Europe can be heard in Washington
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 18, 2009
As Europeans gossip and conspire over the new post-Lisbon appointments to represent the European Union's external face, they know only too well how global power is slipping away from them. European elites agonise over the spectre of irrelevance.
Nobel prize: Incentive or accomplishment?
By: Gianni Skaragas | Monday, November 16, 2009
If the goal of a pre-emptive strike is the attempt to gain a strategic advantage in an impending war, can diplomacy to gain the advantage of initiative and enhance peace in the world be transmuted into a pre-emptive prize?
The top 10 countries for 2010
By: EBR | Friday, November 13, 2009
Lonely Planet released the list of the ten hottest countries for next year. El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Portugal, Suriname and USA make the top ten. Here is why...
Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who trusted his eyes
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The fall of the Berlin Wall was not big news in Russia. Neither was it a surprise. It was a logical consequence of the process that began in Moscow in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power.
‘Obama is roughly asking the same things Bush asked for..’
By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, November 10, 2009
How could Obama choose this day? A question raised by many Polish people when President Obama announced the cancellation of plans to place missile interceptors in their country (and a radar station in the Czech Republic) on September 17, the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion in Poland.
Here's how we can live with a global population of 9bn
By: EBR | Monday, November 9, 2009
The weather and bad luck tend to get the blame for famine and poverty, but the real culprit is bad governance, argues Anna K. Tibaijuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
World trade: After the fall
By: EBR | Monday, November 9, 2009
World trade has been one of the worst casualties of the global economic slowdown and the source of some particularly startling figures. Towards the end of last year trade all but collapsed.
The Coming Order: Strategic and Geopolitical Impacts of the Economic Crisis
By: Thomas Renard, a research fellow at Egmont, Royal Institute for International Relations, a Brussels-based think tank. | Sunday, November 8, 2009
The current global financial crisis is unique in that, unlike most previous crises -- which started in the periphery of the world economy, and whose deep and long-lasting impacts were limited to isolated parts of the globe -- today's crisis is rooted in Wall Street.
Taiwan: the Asia-Pacific Peacemaker
By: Ma Ying-jeou, President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) | Monday, April 13, 2009
The Women’s Forum for Economy and Society
By: Julia Harrison | Monday, October 27, 2008
Glorious October: A New Start for Taiwan
By: Vanessa Shih, Minister of the Government Information Office, Taiwan | Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Europe loves Obama! What about the American voters?
By: N. Peter Kramer | Thursday, September 11, 2008
Hillary’s Seven Mistakes
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, June 16, 2008
New Taiwanese President wants peace with China
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, March 24, 2008
The new role of oil wealth in the world economy
By: EBR | Friday, March 21, 2008
Best Countries for Global Business
By: EBR | Friday, January 11, 2008
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Missile defence in Europe
By: EBR | Monday, December 10, 2007
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