Recently added articles from The World Today:
The G Force
Mar 01, 2009; ... The international economic crisis has catapulted a new group of nations to public awareness. Gone are the fireside chats of G8 countries, welcome to the G20. The agenda for its London summit is demanding, the expectations daunting; but at least it is more representative. tHE SECOND G20 ...
My Recession is Deeper...
Mar 01, 2009; ... As Britain prepares to host the G20 summit in April, it seems to be part of a most unusual bragging contest: the competition for the economy with the deepest recession. Even government ministers have encouraged speculation about how hard-hit the country will be. But there are other serious ...
Trust the People
Mar 01, 2009; ... Why have so many African countries been bedevilled by instability? And what is needed for them to build stable governments? As in other such states around the world, accountability, balance and trust are critical. wHY DO SOME COUNTRIES EMERGE AS STABLE DEMOCRACIES and others do not? And ...
Staying Power
Mar 01, 2009; ... One night in mid-February, gunfire erupted at the gates of the presidential palace in Equatorial Guinea at 3am. The motives were unclear but there was speculation about another coup attempt. Not the news the president wanted as he prepared to celebrate thirty years in power. yOU HAVE TO ...
JOB SECURITY FOR AFRICAN LEADERS
Mar 01, 2009; ... The December military coup in the other Guinea, Conakry, following the death of President Lansana Conté, should be watched closely by long-serving African Presidents. Conté had been president for 24 years after himself staging a coup to seize power, winning disputed elections and changing the ...
Tiger Cull
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Tamil Tigers are finished as a conventional fighting force; though they have already reverted to the suicide bombing tactics they pioneered with such deadly success. But can the Sri Lanka government now win the peace by dealing with the real issues the Tigers exploited? cIVILIANS ARE ...
Globe in a State
Mar 01, 2009; ... The first meeting of the G20 in Washington last November produced so little, concrete action to stave-off the global financial and economic crisis, that the media promptly dubbed it the 'summit of good intentions'. This description was less than just, for the Washington summit did quietly bury a ...
Will Plant Fuels Fly?
Mar 01, 2009; ... Even though commercial aviation contributes a small percentage of total man-made global carbon dioxide emissions, the industry continues to be a target for environmental campaigners and politicians. Cutting carbon emissions is an important priority if the industry is to grow sustainably in the ...
Drive for Sustainability
Mar 01, 2009; ... The need to switch to more sustainable transport systems has never been greater. While world leaders struggle to resuscitate floundering economies, the road to economic recovery must not be littered with the same mistakes as the past. New policies are required to address the many pressing ...
Against the Odds
Mar 01, 2009; ... On April 22, South Africans will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections for the fourth time since the end of apartheid, and a fourth president will take power through constitutional means. It is worth remembering this amazing achievement. The apartheid legacy of racism, repression and ...
New Liberation
Mar 01, 2009; ... At least a generation after southern African countries won their independence, the ageing freedom fighters are being challenged. There are early signs of what may be a youthful political renewal with new dreams of freedom. cOULD THERE BE PEOPLE AROUND the globe who do not yearn for a ...
Global Health
Feb 01, 2009; ... The conflict in Gaza has drawn fresh attention to links between foreign policy and health, the focus of new research at Chatham House in its Centre on Global Health and Foreign Policy. On these pages two senior Lancet editors call for an initiative by the medical profession and policy people to ...
Becoming Human
Feb 01, 2009; ... Recent events in Gaza have shown beyond doubt that the world must do better in protecting the lives and health of civilians during violent conflicts. Despite the United Nations system, including the Security Council, the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the World ...
Cause & Effect
Feb 01, 2009; ... In the wake of the Gaza conflict, President Barack Obama cannot avoid setting out terms of engagement with the Middle East. The most obvious priority is to provide a template for renewed peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians, backed by the reconstruction of Gaza's damaged ...
Beyond Gaza
Feb 01, 2009; ... Israeli and Palestinian leaders are either incapable or unwilling to think strategically about ways they can resolve, or at least effectively manage, the many issues that have divided their people for more than sixty years. sHORT OF COMPLETE ANNIHILATION OF HAMAS and thousands of ...
Indispensable World Power
Feb 01, 2009; ... During the presidential election campaign, both Barack Obama and his Republican opponent John McCain expressed the view that the United States was and ought to remain the guarantor of international stability and the indispensable stabilising power. Against the backdrop of the present financial ...
Final Warning
Feb 01, 2009; ... Twice in the past five months, the inevitable has provoked surprise. When Russia's Gazprom halted its daily delivery of ninety million cubic meters of gas to Ukraine on January 1,Europe's political leaders were marginally less astounded than they were by the outbreak of conflict in Georgia in ...
Changing Rules
Feb 01, 2009; ... Twenty years after the end of the Cold War,Russia seems intent on re-writing the rules onmedia freedom, democracy and security on which a new, more cooperative relationship with the west was to be built. Moscow's crackdown on freedom of expression may make conflict more likely. tHIS YEAR ...
Honey Pot
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Balkans is so far missing from urgent reports of areas hard-hit by the international financial crisis. Once famous for pyramid selling - now familiar as Ponzi schemes - Albania is predicted some eight per cent growth by the World Bank. But behind this apparent stability is a much darker ...
Dire Disease
Feb 01, 2009; ... Global health is in a dire state. Annually, almost tenmillion children die before the age of five. The top four child killers are diarrhoeal disease, malaria, malnutrition, and upper respiratory infection. In the next 24 hours diarrhoea, caused by unclean water and poor sanitation, will claim ...