Three days after a strike involving more than 15,000 workers broke out in a factory in southern Vietnam, U.S. sportswear maker Nike announced April 3 that the dispute had been resolved. [more]
As businesses turn their attention to emerging markets in Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions, rapid growth rates threaten to outstrip fragile or underdeveloped energy grids. Marla Dial and Davis Cherry investigate. [more]
The United States has now spent four years fighting in Iraq. Those who planned the conflict never expected this outcome. Indeed, it could be argued that this outcome represents not only miscalculation but also a strategic defeat for the United States. The best that can be said about the war at the moment is that it is a strategic stalemate, which is an undesired outcome for the Americans. The worst that can be said is that the United States has failed to meet its strategic objectives and that failure represents defeat. [more]
A spate of attacks have occurred recently that we attribute to al Qaeda. In addition to the two rounds of attacks in London this month and the bombings at Sharm el Sheikh, we have seen ongoing suicide bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq that targeted government officials, the bombing of a Sufi shrine in Islamabad, the abduction and murder of an Iranian security official and other killings in the Muslim world. [more]
