Publication: Ushio
Dealing with a nuclear Iran
01.06.06 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreThe power of globalisation
01.05.06 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreInsulting cartoons and the limits of free speech
01.03.06 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreThe case for American leadership
01.02.06 Publication: Ushio
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....
Read moreThe future power of Chindia
01.01.06 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreMemories, museums and war
01.12.05 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreOptimism about Japan
01.11.05 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreDealing with natural disasters
01.10.05 Publication: Ushio
Few can disagree—unless perhaps they are President George Bush himself—that the American federal government´s handling of the natural disaster that...
Read moreReflections on the atom bombs
01.09.05 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreMaking poverty history
01.07.05 Publication: Ushio
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...
Read moreAsia’s historic rivalry
01.06.05 Publication: Ushio
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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