Protectionist Myths
By Jagdish Bhagwati | 07 July 2010 At a debate in New York last year entitled “Buy American/Hire American Policies Will Backfire,” with hundreds of people in attendance, my team of three...
India’s Mistaken Call for Renminbi Appreciation
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...
Taming Rating Agencies
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...
From Lehman Brothers’ Collapse to the Greek Debacle – Exposing Shifts in the World Economic Order
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...
Sustainable Development: Representing a Reflexive Modernity Inside the United Nations
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...
Global Imbalances And The Great Recession
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...
Listening to The Language of Change
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...
Political Warfare old and new: The State and Private Groups in the Formation of the National Endowment for Democracy
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...
Bosnia’s Continuing Chaos
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...
Global Climate Change Treaty Delayed
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...
Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies
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...
Huge amounts of avoidable post-harvest losses worsens hunger for poor – UN
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 under pressure as global economic crisis continues to bite, UN report finds
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...
Beyond the 2001 financial crisis: The political economy of the new phase of neo-liberal restructuring in Turkey
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...
The demise of the dollar
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...