Remittances, states and development
By Laura Tedesco (14/11/2008)
In recent times, remittances - the private funds that immigrants periodically send to their home countries - have increased significantly. In general, such funds are sent to underdeveloped countries that are still struggling to achieve sustainable development.
Great challenges for President-elect Obama
By Robert Matthews (06/11/2008)
The same nation that voted for and then reelected George W. Bush has just convincingly repudiated those elections.
The US embarks on an era of change
By Robert Matthews (05/11/2008)
It is likely that the 2008 campaign has offered the US electorate the clearest option between Republican and Democrat candidates and their agendas since the 1972 battle between George McGovern and Richard Nixon.
The next U.S. president and the Israel-Palestine conflict
By Henry Siegman (30/10/2008)
A U.S. initiative that goes beyond the failed “facilitation” of previous administrations to vigorous and determined diplomacy can still produce a two-state solution, but only a president whose political and moral horizon extends beyond the next Congressional elections can hope to bring this multi-generational tragedy to an end.
The years of the dragon's teeth
By Pierre Schori (27/10/2008)
With a degree of force that is sorely lacking in the diplomatic sphere, Pierre Schori analyses in depth the hostile attitude of the US towards the UN during the Iraq crisis from the priviledged position that he had as Swedish ambassador to the organisation throughout that turbulent period.
