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EU Seeks Sanctions Against US

January 15, 2004
Just days after US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick called on other countries to renew global trade negotiations, the US is under fire for failing to comply with the trade rules it helped establish. Last year, the World Trade Organization (WTO) declared that the 'Byrd Amendment' put...

Playing Make-Believe With Greece

July 4, 2011
Operating under the assumption that their economy is “too big to fail,” Greeks anticipate an infusion of new loans and are in no hurry to embrace austerity. Despite their role in failing to regulate the excessive lending, central bankers resist accountability for the crisis in Greece. Floyd Norris...

United Way to a New Political Europe

June 30, 2005
Debate over Europe's identity crisis, ignited by the rejection of the EU Constitution, was further stoked this week when British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke before the EU Parliament. Blair enters his term as EU President armed with a plan to modernize Europe and redirect funds from...

How China Is Eating Mexico's Lunch

Daniel H. Rosen

Was Spy Murdered in Russian Power Fight?

November 27, 2006
Alexander Litvinenko’s death by radioactive polonium 210 was unusual enough. But the long and agonizing death also gave the former KGB spy time to issue a public accusation against Russian President Vladmir Putin for murder. Litvinenko had been investigating the death of a journalist long critical...

Iraq’s Refugee Crisis

May 7, 2007
The US and its coalition partners invaded Iraq, but have failed to provide for the 2 million Iraqis displaced since the start of the war. Nearly 15 percent of Iraq’s 26.8 million people have been displaced, with most moving to other parts of their war-torn nation or neighboring Jordan and Syria,...

To Arm or Not to Arm? That Is Obama’s Question

May 7, 2013
Weapons last longer than alliances, and the Obama administration is highly cautious about arming even a small segment of Syria’s rebels. It’s happened time and time again that weapons quickly change hands and are used against the original providers. The chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army is...

The Palestinian National Reconciliation: Regional and International Implications

June 26, 2014
After seven years, fragmented Palestine has come together to form a unity government that has implications for the entire Middle East. Unrest and conflict throughout the Middle East prompted compromise, suggests Fadi Elhusseini in the Middle East Monitor. “Developments in Syria and its...
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