Archive for 'WORLD Digest'

- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the author of Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism [...]

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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 1997. He is the author of the [...]

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- Guy Sorman
Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist, is the author of Economics Does Not Lie.

PARIS – In democracies, justice is supposed to be independent. Some prosecutors and investigating [...]

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- Nina L. Khrushcheva
Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, teaches international affairs at The New School and is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York.

MOSCOW [...]

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- Masahiro Matsumura
Masahiro Matsumura is Professor of International Relations at Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku (St Andrew’s University), Osaka.

OSAKA – With the post-general election honeymoon over, the Japanese public has become increasingly [...]

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Avatar and Empire

- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.

NEW YORK – Do nations have psychological processes – even Freudian processes, such as collective egos that can be injured, and repressed guilt feelings that can well up from [...]

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- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Marie Curie Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is The [...]

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- Ian Bremmer and David Gordon
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.
David Gordon is Eurasia Group’s head of research.

NEW YORK – In 2009, Forbes magazine named US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao the “world’s most powerful [...]

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Inherited Malignancy

- Brigitte Schlegelberger and Tim Ripperger
Brigitte [...]

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Guilty Democrats

- Ma Jian
Ma Jian’s most recent novel is Beijing Coma.
LONDON – When former Czech President Václav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer Liu Xiaobo, I had an eerie sense of déjà vu. Thirty-three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, [...]

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Reconstructing Haiti

- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability [...]

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- Yuriko Koike
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s first female Minister of Defense and a former National Security Advisor, is currently an opposition member of the Diet.
TOKYO – 2010 marks the 50th anniversary [...]

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- Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of [...]

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- Václav Havel et al
Václav Havel is a former president of the Czech Republic; His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism; André Glucksmann is a philosopher; [...]

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Rescuing Yemen

- Mai Yamani
Mai Yamani’s most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
LONDON – Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security. Indeed, it is increasingly seen [...]

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- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, a former member of India’s National Security Council, is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and the author of Asian Juggernaut: [...]

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- Lakhdar Brahimi and Desmond Tutu
Lakhdar Brahimi is a former foreign minister of Algeria and United Nations special envoy. All three are members of the Elders www.theElders.org.
Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
ALGIERS – The future of Sudan hangs in the balance. National elections are due [...]

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Saturday, 15 September 2007 01:00
S.M. Ali
Arakan had firmly established its authority over Chittagong by the middle of the 16th century and retained its control for over a hundred years. The Portuguese actively cooperated with the Arakanese and the union of Portuguese navy and Arakanese army was a formidable combination. In this paper I wish to [...]

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