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By Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
CAMBRIDGE – You don’t have to break a sweat to be a […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
By Jorge G. Castañeda
Jorge G. Castañeda, former Foreign Minister of Mexico (2000-2003), is a Global Distinguished Professor of Politics and Latin American Studies at New York University.
MEXICO CITY – Not long after I took office as Mexico’s foreign minister in 2001, a novel problem came across my desk. An Argentine naval officer who had resettled […]
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By Thomas I. Palley
Thomas Palley was Chief Economist with the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and is the author of Post-Keynesian Economics.
WASHINGTON, DC – Central banks around the world have finally reacted to the global financial crisis by engineering a coordinated half-point interest-rate cut. That is welcome, but far more is needed – and […]
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By Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma’s most recent book is Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College.
EUROPE: Two far-right parties, the Austrian Freedom Party and the Movement for Austria’s Future, won 29% of the vote in the […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
By Václav Havel et al
Václav Havel is Former President of the Czech Republic, André Glucksmann is a French philosopher, Frederik Willem de Klerk is a former President of South Africa, Mike Moore is a former director general World Trade Organization, Yohei Sasakawa is a Japanese philanthropist, Karel Schwarzenberg is foreign minister of the Czech Republic, […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
By Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations.
NEW DELHI – The ratification by the United States Congress of the historic India-US Nuclear Agreement marks a remarkable new development in world affairs. Initially signed in July 2005, the agreement is a major milestone in the growing […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 10th, 2008 No Comments »
By DOUG MELLGREN and MATTI HUUHTANEN
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AP
OSLO, Norway (Oct. 10) - Finland’s ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East.
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 9th, 2008 No Comments »
By JOHN HEILPRIN
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AP
UNITED NATIONS -The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday approved a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice to provide a formal opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
Serbia, which proposed seeking the court opinion, considers Kosovo’s drive for independence illegal. It maintains that Kosovo is its religious and historic heartland […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 7th, 2008 No Comments »
AP
LONDON -Russia and Georgia could be suspended from Europe’s top human rights body unless the two countries uphold their obligations to prevent abuses in the aftermath of their short but fierce war, the group’s head said Monday.
Terry Davis, secretary-general of the Council of Europe, told The Associated Press that both countries breached their obligations when […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 6th, 2008 No Comments »
(CNN) — Two Frenchmen and a German won the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries of viruses that cause HIV and cervical cancer, the organization’s Web site said Monday.
Luc Montagnier will split the $1.4 million prize with two others.
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France were honored “for their discovery of human […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
By Harold James
Harold James is Professor of history and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and professor of history at the European University Institute, Florence.
PRINCETON – In the middle of September’s financial meltdown, a remarkable event occurred in London. While the City of London was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
By Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – Korea is a unique country. The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and is now remembered only as history to most people around the world. The Korean Peninsula, however, remains […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.
NEW YORK – It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the United States’ financial system […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
By Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, the author, most recently, of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and the forthcoming Give me Liberty: How to Become an American Revolutionary, is co-founder of the American Freedom Campaign, a US democracy movement.
New York – The selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By EDITH M. LEDERER
AP
UNITED NATIONS -Russia called Saturday for a revival of the global anti-terrorism coalition that formed after Sept. 11, 2001 but started to unravel with what it called the subsequent domination by a single power — a veiled reference to the United States.
“The solidarity of the international community fostered on the wave of […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
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 – In recent years, the United States has been more a source of global instability than a source of global problem-solving. Examples include the […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
NEW YORK – We all recognize today’s perils. A global financial crisis. A global energy crisis. A global food crisis. Trade talks have collapsed, yet again.
There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems […]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By Richard Feachem
Sir Richard Feachem is Professor of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO – Last fall, Bill and Melinda Gates sent shock waves through the global health community when they announced the audacious goal of eradicating human malaria from the face of the planet. Nothing less, they urged, would be enough.
Heated […]