Recently added articles from World Policy Journal:
Bush's stealth United Nations policy.(George W. Bush)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Schlesinger, Stephen ... A litany of failures and shattered goals has been a hallmark of George W. Bush's foreign policy in such strategic states as Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia. Yet in the midst of this bleak landscape, there has been one success for Bush. Looking back on the almost ...
Editors' note: Doha lives.(FOCUS: TRADE)(international trade)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trade is not dead. On the night this special edition of World Policy Journal went to press, the Doha Round of trade talks foundered amidst a welter of recriminations among rich and poor nations on the shores of Geneva's Lac Leman. Still, trade will ...
Trade pacts run amok.(FOCUS: TRADE)
Jun 22, 2008; Blustein, Paul ... Free trade agreements are supposed to be great ways to deepen friendships with U.S. allies. Alas, the theory doesn't seem to be working very well in the case of Colombia. Therein lies a larger lesson about the pitfalls of trade deals between individual countries. A battle royale ...
'Round and 'round we go ...(FOCUS: TRADE)(international trade)
Jun 22, 2008; Christy, David S., Jr. ... The prospects of successfully concluding the Doha Round negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2008 are minuscule. Even a basic agreement on major issues leaving details to be filled in later is highly unlikely. The best we realistically can hope for is an agreement this ...
The run on rice.(FOCUS: TRADE)
Jun 22, 2008; Brahmbhatt, Milan ... This year has brought vivid television images of food riots in poor countries and unpleasant surprises at the supermarket checkout counter in rich ones. Is the era of cheap food really over? By mid 2008, U.S. dollar prices for food grains had more than doubled compared with just ...
Doha's good deeds.(FOCUS: TRADE)(Qatar)
Jun 22, 2008; MacBain, Louise Blouin ... Many of you are presently suffering from sharp increases in food prices. The main cause of this increase is here to stay since it results from structural changes in the demand for farm products. Reducing farm subsidies and tariffs should help create more room for your own farmers to export ...
And prosperity for all: a view from the OECD.(FOCUS: TRADE)(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Jun 22, 2008; Gurria, Angel ... Trade has always been a driver for development. In today's era of globalization, the power of trade to bring increased prosperity has expanded exponentially. Emerging economies such as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Russia have raised living standards and made headway in reducing ...
Sustainable trade begins at home.(FOCUS: TRADE)
Jun 22, 2008; Alcock, Frank ... Nearly nine years have passed since the infamous 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Session, better known as "The Battle in Seattle." One of the lasting images from the massive street protests that occurred there is of environmental activists in sea turtle costumes. The sea ...
How trade became geopolitics.(FOCUS: TRADE)
Jun 22, 2008; Laidi, Zaki ... Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was first created in 1995, trade issues have ceased to be technical. Instead, they have become highly political, not only because trade issues have changed but also because the geopolitical context in which these exchanges take place has been ...
Congo: between hope and despair.(REPORTAGE)(Essay)
Jun 22, 2008; Deibert, Michael ... RUTSHURU, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO--In the middle of a schoolyard in this war-torn corner of eastern Congo, a village of fragile tarpaulin has sprung up amid the weed-choked gravel. Surrounded by children in ragged clothing, Bonaparte Kananzo, a farmer, steps forward to explain ...
Forward Nigeria.
Jun 22, 2008; Power, Jonathan ... Nigeria contains one quarter of the black people of the world. So it is not surprising that a) Nigerians are Obama crazy, and b) they also think the world begins and ends with Nigeria. The inward focus has much to commend it. In the eight years of the administration of Olusegun ...
Europe reborn.(RECONSIDERATIONS)
Jun 22, 2008; Dilday, K.A. ... "We have created Europe, now we must create Europeans." --The late Polish Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek We have arrived in a time where, in the old European states of the European Union, national identities are being fiercely debated. For those citizens who ...
Living in interesting times.(CODA)(Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; Andelman, David A. ... With this, my first, Coda, I take up the stewardship of World Policy Journal--the fourth editor in its nearly quarter-century history--with as much humility as I am capable and with considerable respect for the responsibilities it carries. I step gingerly into the capacious shoes of a ...