tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277283912024-02-28T10:21:37.317-08:00strategic research instituteA Non-governmental organization that conducts papers and researches both in Geopolitics and Islamology (islamic sociology) Interested people can email queroph@gmail.com for commentsyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-34294761070939834032009-06-26T09:10:00.000-07:002009-06-26T09:11:16.527-07:00Whats Global Recession? What is a global recession? <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> <!-- E IIMA --> Many individual countries are now in recession, and the world economy is flagging badly. Leading economic organisations and business leaders are talking about "a global recession".yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-62037348289081410962009-06-01T23:26:00.001-07:002009-06-01T23:28:00.144-07:00Deffects in the Afghan-Pak Strategy of the US....Holes in the US Afghan-Pakistan strategyShahzad Chaudhry Lahore, Pakistan - The affable US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton needs to pay close attention to the serious gaping hole in US President Barack Obama's "AfPak" (Afghan-Pakistan) strategy: the absence of a cooperative geo-political security regime in the larger Afghanistan-Pakistan-India region.The United States is in a unique and yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-26428916424210398412009-05-24T02:17:00.000-07:002009-05-24T02:18:14.815-07:00Massage Economics: Is China declaring its actual economic growth? PART of the recent optimism in world markets rests on the belief that China’s fiscal-stimulus package is boosting its economy and that GDP growth could come close to the government’s target of 8% this year. Some economists, however, suspect that the figures overstate the economy’s true growth rate and that Beijing would report 8% regardless of the truth. Is China cheating? Economists have long yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-91385143857707873382009-05-19T22:07:00.000-07:002009-05-19T22:08:35.626-07:00Same Problems with the New Guard? New leaders face old problems in Mid-East <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> The two leaders have differing views on the Palestinian territories <!-- E IIMA --> <!-- S IBYL -->yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-79459973056265855552009-05-07T13:10:00.000-07:002009-05-07T13:12:29.284-07:00Strong StatesmanshipThere is no alternative May 7th 2009From The Economist print editionThe permanence of Thatcherism and the politics of unpopularity Illustration by Steve O'Brien POLITICS has turned funereal. New Labour was buried by ululating commentators after last month’s flawed budget. Now the -ism that spawned Tony Blair’s hybrid creed is apparently following it into oblivion. The 30th anniversary of the Ironyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-43336598862469902272009-05-02T02:35:00.000-07:002009-05-02T02:37:24.647-07:00On the prowlChina's sovereign-wealth fund is back on the acquisition trail Having kept a relatively low profile after big paper losses on its early overseas investments, China's fledgling sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC), is hunting for acquisition targets once more. Such a move, combined with the more aggressive expansion plans of other Chinese companies, will reinforce speculationyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-13031180952801872942009-05-01T21:46:00.000-07:002009-05-01T21:48:50.414-07:00Is There a real war between Pakistan and the Taliban?As the Pakistani army launches a new assault on the Taliban, America hopes it is now more serious about defeating the militants AFP WHEN Barack Obama unveiled his new policy on Pakistan and Afghanistan in March, he gave a warning that al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other jihadist gangs were “killing Pakistan from within”. The generals who guard Pakistan’s national security had shown only “mixed yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-49488541426863511012009-04-30T01:58:00.000-07:002009-04-30T01:59:38.191-07:00Battle of IdeasChinese companies are enforcing patents against foreign firms FOR over a decade Schneider Electric of France has bombarded a Chinese firm, Chint Group, with lawsuits accusing it of copying its technology. But the tables turned on April 15th when the two companies settled an infringement case—with the French firm forking over $23m to Chint. The rich settlement against a foreign firm is a landmarkyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-76730235607945035042009-04-29T04:04:00.000-07:002009-04-29T04:07:16.704-07:00Is Israel heading for a clash with the US?It is Israel's Independence Day - traditionally time for leading Israeli politicians to give big interviews about their country's past and future. Israel's new Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has remained conspicuously tight-lipped. Israeli voters went to the polls in February. Mr Netanyahu knows their number one priority is personal and national security. This would have been yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-1063801223853023902009-04-23T20:32:00.000-07:002009-04-23T20:33:59.383-07:00Economic slump continuing Data 'to show slump continuing' <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> Unemployment has risen sharply in recent months <!-- E IIMA --> <!-- S SF -->The UK economy shrank in the first three months of 2009 at about the same pace as it did in the final quarter of 2008,yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-71073464911687946762009-04-07T22:30:00.000-07:002009-04-07T22:31:26.611-07:00Are Islam and Aristotle compatible?Are Islam and Aristotle compatible?Eric Heinze London - This semester I am teaching a course about Aristotle, democracy and law on a University of London campus which has large numbers of Muslim students. Over the past few weeks, two of them approached me – independently, and at different times. They both asked, a bit nervously, whether Aristotle's philosophy is compatible with Islam.They yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-44724413731469097682009-03-18T22:30:00.000-07:002009-03-18T22:31:07.360-07:00Stepping AsideReformists will struggle in the presidential race in Iran AFP AS IRAN heads towards presidential polls in June, the contest is shaping into something of a referendum on the nature of the Islamic Republic. Thirty years after the fall of the shah, pride in the revolution is tempered by a widely shared sense that it has gone astray. Yet views differ radically over what ails Iran’s hybrid yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-14277176347031228042009-03-03T02:02:00.000-08:002009-03-03T02:03:50.312-08:00FAQ's on Stimulus Plan proposed by Barack Obama Q&A: Obama stimulus plan <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> Mr Obama has made the stimulus plan his priority <!-- E IIMA --> US President Barack Obama has signed into law a slimmed-down economic stimulus plan worth about $787bn (£548bn) aimed at boosting the yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-5990558195763556092009-02-09T04:01:00.000-08:002009-02-09T04:05:32.749-08:00open letter to US President Barack Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security:Washington, DC - The following is an open letter to US President Barack Obama from Conflict Analysis Professionals for Enduring Security:Dear President Obama,Congratulations on your election. We look forward to working with you to heal our country in every way we can.We are interdisciplinary conflict analysis professionals – psychologists and other social scientists – devoted to the study and yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-62555084437331004102009-01-04T18:53:00.000-08:002009-01-04T18:54:19.644-08:00Hero, Statesman... or National Traitor?The traitor of the Filipino People The following blogpost is the result of a conversation with a close friend of mine.Opinions expressed here are not purely of the author's, but is a result of the inputs given by his friend..... I met and had a conversation with a friend recently, he was talking about Nationalism and the love of country. He struck a chord with a new argument that I have heard yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-10170233624944153142008-12-20T00:26:00.000-08:002008-12-20T00:28:17.434-08:00Pakistan
United against the wrong enemyPakistan has made a modest start against the likely culprits of the Mumbai killings. But fulminating against India is more fun AFP IF PAKISTAN’S leaders had ever united against Islamist militancy as they have against India over the past three weeks, their country would not be the violent mess that it is. Ever since India alleged, with subsequent corroboration from America and Britain, that yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-28033480801483809942008-12-19T01:50:00.000-08:002008-12-19T01:52:10.963-08:00Somalia's IslamistsThe rise of the Shabab Dec 18th 2008 | KIUNGAFrom The Economist print editionIslamist fighters are taking over swathes of Africa’s most utterly failed state FOR all its paradisal waters, golden dunes and swanky “eco-lodges”, life in Kenya’s coastal district of Kiunga, just a few miles from the border with Somalia, is hard. The place is remote, hungry and thirsty. The harvest and the wells have yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-79241609880301740432008-12-14T20:09:00.000-08:002008-12-14T20:11:00.271-08:00The left's resignation note Dec 11th 2008From The Economist print editionWhy the left in Europe is not benefiting from the economic crisis Illustration by Peter Schrank SOCIALISM in Britain died in 1983. Its demise can be dated to that year’s Labour Party election manifesto, branded “the longest suicide note in history”. This document combined ideological purity (highlights included the creation yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-89730590828534933762008-12-10T00:47:00.000-08:002008-12-10T00:49:49.431-08:00Anger over Azhar Mufti meeting Shimon Perez Anger as Egypt sheikh meets Peres <!-- E IBYL --> <!-- S IIMA --> Sheikh Tantawi insists he did not recognise Shimon Peres <!-- E IIMA --> <!-- S SF --> Egypt's top Muslim cleric is under pressure to resign from politicians and newspapers for shaking the hand of Israeli President Shimon Peres. Criticism has been steadilyyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-40478592878960554642008-12-05T23:10:00.000-08:002008-12-05T23:12:33.317-08:00Plumbing the depthsOPEC has its work cut out to stop the oil price from sinking further ENERGY analysts spent the first half of the year debating how expensive oil could get. Now they are asking the opposite question. On December 2nd the price of a barrel slipped below $47, the lowest level since May 2005 and less than a third of the peak reached in July. The main reason for the slump is the darkening outlook yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-35835701027429403402008-11-20T03:32:00.000-08:002008-11-20T03:33:19.108-08:00A Spent ForceThe American economy A spent force Ominous signs that the crisis will have a big impact on spending IT WAS, admitted Hank Paulson as he threw a $250 billion lifeline to American banks, objectionable to most Americans, himself included, to see the government owning stakes in private companies. He had no real alternative. But it would have been less objectionable had he been able to promise that yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-48947629210827093922008-09-18T03:14:00.000-07:002008-09-18T03:20:05.033-07:00Is It the Dawn of the Reregulation Era?Regulation has been a dirty word in business—and in Washington—for decades. But government oversight is looking a lot better lately The 30-year era of deregulation came to a sudden and surprising end on Sept. 16. Late that evening the Federal Reserve extended $85 billion to take an unprecedented 80% stake in American International Group (AIG) in order to save the floundering insurance giant. Lessyosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-69185643689268066022008-09-15T03:40:00.000-07:002008-09-15T03:42:24.298-07:00Climate change and the poor Adapt or die Sep 11th 2008From The Economist print editionEnvironmentalists have long said the world should concentrate on preventing climate change, not adapting to it. That is changing Panos “I USED to think adaptation subtracted from our efforts on prevention. But I’ve changed my mind,” says Al Gore, a former American vice-president and Nobel prize-winner. “Poor yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-70627927609511107002008-09-13T00:30:00.000-07:002008-09-13T00:34:06.672-07:00In India, the paradox of 'choice' in a globalized culture A worker removing English signage in Mumbai on Aug. 26. (Rajanish Kakade/The Associated Press) <!-- /landscape photo --> <!-- kicker & headline --> LETTER FROM INDIA <!-- ISI_LISTEN_START --> In India, the paradox of 'choice' in a globalized cultureBy Anand Giridharadas <!-- /kicker & headline --> <!-- yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728391.post-72074778437325436642008-09-09T23:28:00.000-07:002008-09-09T23:32:28.077-07:00What’s with all the hurricanes?What’s with all the hurricanes?By Eoin O'Carroll | 09.04.08(Christian Science Monitor)Look at a satellite map, and you’ll see them lined up like Rockettes, stretching from Texas to the Canary Islands: Former Hurricane Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna, Hurricane Ike, Tropical Storm Josephine. What gives?Four simultaneous named storms is unusual, but it’s not unprecedented. As the AP’s Seth Borenstein yosifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15785918997057123308noreply@blogger.com0