Will President Obama go down in history for having set a new course on foreign policy, or for having shown unexpected continuity with his predecessor? As one of his first acts after taking office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year. “This is me,”…
THE ASIAN WAY: Special Feature by Stephen Roach What a contrast! This was my first trip back to Asia after having spent three years living in the region. I returned to the United States a couple of months ago with enormous respect for how Asia had pulled itself together after its own devastating crisis in…
What the downfall of Moscow’s colorful mayor really says about the Kremlin
U.S. and many other nations at the U.N. General Assembly walk out in protest at Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s conspiracy theories over September 11 attacks
Victims of something much larger than ourselves,
Pakistani villagers say landowners breached levees to save their own property Several canal walls were breached during last month’s floods, and accusations are mounting that the ruptures were deliberate. But an irrigation chief says the surging Indus alone is to blame. Ghulam Qadir was getting ready for sleep one night early last month when a…
The role of Latinos in American society is growing inexorably, with big political implications for the future
Saudi Arabia plans to purchase $60bn worth of US-made fighter jets in the largest US arms deal ever U.S> government is charging ahead with a plan to sell $60bn worth of advanced aircraft and other sophisticated weapons systems to Saudi Arabia, in what is thought to be the largest US arms deal ever. The Wall…
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be —…