Publication: Ushio

Dealing with a nuclear Iran

01.06.06 Publication:

Ever since 1945, when the first nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has lived with an extraordinary contradiction. This is the fact...

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The power of globalisation

01.05.06 Publication:

Sometimes, we become so preoccupied by what is happening today, that we forget what happened only yesterday. This matters because where we have come from also...

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Insulting cartoons and the limits of free speech

01.03.06 Publication:

Editors of newspapers and magazines like to think of themselves as quite influential people. But usually they are not. Politicians do pay court to them, but...

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The case for American leadership

01.02.06 Publication:

During recent years, it has become harder and harder to find anyone outside the United States who will agree that American leadership is good for the world....

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The future power of Chindia

01.01.06 Publication:

People who follow the course of world politics and economics often disagree on many things. But these days there is one thing most do seem to agree upon: that...

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Memories, museums and war

01.12.05 Publication:

Anyone who studied my schedule during the past year could be forgiven for concluding that I am obsessed with museums and with war. Nothing could be further...

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Optimism about Japan

01.11.05 Publication:

People often think economics is all about money and statistics and strange mathematical equations. But that is wrong: in my view, economics is really just a...

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Dealing with natural disasters

01.10.05 Publication:

Few can disagree—unless perhaps they are President George Bush himself—that the American federal government´s handling of the natural disaster that...

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Reflections on the atom bombs

01.09.05 Publication:

Every year, when it comes to celebrating my birthday, two things strike me, leaving aside the extra pleasure I get on that day from my family. One is that it...

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Making poverty history

01.07.05 Publication:

In western Europe this year, we seem to be experiencing a strange mixture: a cult of the celebrity and a cult of Africa all rolled into one. This is occurring...

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Asia’s historic rivalry

01.06.05 Publication:

As a writer who has long been fascinated by Japan and (like everyone else) has recently become fascinated by China, I am inevitably also fascinated by the...

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