Month: March 2014

By Jagdish Bhagwati | 05 June 2010 India’s central bank governor issued in late April a critique of the alleged Chinese undervaluation of the yuan/renminbi, siding therefore with the U.S. politicians and...

By Dr. Kurtulus Gemici | 01 June 2010 Alchemy thrived in seeking how to turn ordinary, worthless metals into gold. To the dismay of countless alchemists, that goal has been rather elusive...

By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 01 June 2010 On 15 September 2008, the supposedly safe and perpetually prosperous world of post-industrial global economic order blew itself up when Lehman Brothers filed for...

By Gregory Borne | 15 April 2010   Abstract   (SD) within the United Nations (UN) represents a paradigm shift from first/industrial modernity to a reflexive modernity. Reflexive modernity is defined by...

By Dr. Kurtulus Gemici | 01 April 2010   As Aldous Huxley put it, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” The truth is that the world...

By Prof. Bulent Gokay | 01 April 2010 The economic downturn and recession, which spread across the globe following the US sub-prime mortgage crisis in September 2008, has become the dominant news...

Robert Pee On June 8 1982, Ronald Reagan gave a speech to the British Parliament calling for a global crusade for democracy. The practical outcome of this was the creation, in...

Louise Arbour   Fourteen years after its brutal war ended, Bosnia is today in political, if not literal, turmoil. Half of the country is deadlocked in a feud with the...

Selah Hennessy    Senior negotiators at a U.N. conference in Barcelona say a legally binding environment treaty will be delayed. In the final day of a weeklong conference, world leaders...

The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27–29 October meeting to pandemic...

The plight of the hungry in developing countries is needlessly aggravated by farmers losing up to half of their crops after gathering the harvest, the United Nations agricultural agency said...

Real wages appear to be stagnating worldwide for the second consecutive year, underlining the fragility of any potential recovery from the global economic crisis, the United Nations International Labour Organization...

Prof. Ziya Onis   Turkey has experienced consecutive financial crises in 2000 and 2001. The crisis of 2001 was particularly far-reaching in terms of its impact, resulting in a major...

Robert Fisk   In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for...

Prof. Francis Fukuyama   There is a pervasive sense of unreality in Washington about the nature and scale of the economic crisis facing the United States and the world. The...