Developing a Winning Strategy for the Middle East
By: The Globalist | Thursday, April 1, 2010
Vali Nasr, author of "Forces of Fortune," argues the only way Westerners will get less, rather than more, rejection and extremism is not with more sanctions and conflict — but with more business and interaction.
More Like Us: The Growth of the Global Middle Class
By: The Globalist | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The global economic downturn should not obscure the unprecedented material progress that globalization has brought to the world in recent years. As the CATO Institute's Daniel Griswold argues perhaps the most important accomplishment of globalization has been the creation of a global middle class.
Global Governance: Lessons from Europe
By: Pascal Lamy, Director - General of WTO | Friday, February 19, 2010
As the world emerges from one of the worst economic crises in recent history, there is need for an organization that can provide measures of global governance. But that is a difficult task, raising issues of distance, legitimacy and power-sharing.
The Top 10 Drivers of Change in 2010 and Beyond
By: Business Week | Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Among the insights from the CEB: Economic recovery will be uneven, the war for talent will heat up, and price won't be consumers' top motivator. In this era of uncertainty, many executives are wondering which changes will have the greatest impact on their business in the year ahead.
Rebuilding the global economy on a principled foundation
By: EBR | Monday, February 1, 2010
At the conclusion of the 40th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, participants pledged to rethink, rebuild and redesign the global economy based on sustainable principles. “The recovery is still very fragile in many developed economies.” Principled leadership is key to stabilization.
Taiwan’s aid donation for Haiti
By: N. Peter Kramer | Sunday, January 31, 2010
Taiwan (Republic of China) pledged a $5 million donation shortly after its Caribbean ally Haiti was struck by the deadly earthquake January 12. After meeting the Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, President MaYing-jeou announced that Taiwan will increase its aid donation to $10 million.
Obama pledges renewed focus on jobs
By: The New York Times | Thursday, January 28, 2010
President Obama vowed Wednesday night not to give up on his ambitious legislative agenda, using his first State of the Union address to chastise Republicans for working in lock-step against him and to warn Democrats to stiffen their political spines.
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
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