GB examines Asiaâs business psyche and the state of business talent the world over with McKinsey global head Dominic Barton
GB:...
Tags: Agus Martowardojo, American business, Asia, Bharti Airtel, Brazil, business, business innovation, business leaders, China, Chinese market, Dominic Barton, Global Brief, investments, Japan, JPMorgan Chase, McKinsey & Company, mergers and acquisitions, Nigeria, POSCO, private equity, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Tata, United States
Proposition: The Arab Spring is, on balance, a major strategic problem for Israel
Saeed Rahnema (against): Whether or not...
Tags: Arab Spring, Assad's regime, David Tal, Egypt, geostrategic impact of the Arab Spring, Global Brief, Iran, Israël, Israel's response to the Arab Spring, Israel's security, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political unrest, pro-democracy movements in the Middle East, religious fundamentalists, Saeed Rahnema, Saudi Arabia, self-determination, Six-Day War, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
The future of rights in Western Asia, as in other theatres, will require an abiding rights âcultureâ that is not so much...
Tags: Arab Spring, China, culture of rights, Ecuador, Egypt, European Court of Human Rights, Global Brief, growth of democracy, Human Rights Act, Human rights culture, judicial review, Lawrence Friedman, Middle East, modernity, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Stanford Law School, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam
GB sits down with Stanfordâs Abbas Milani to discuss Iran: from Tehran and Bushehr to the Diaspora
GB Where do you see...
Tags: Abbas Milani, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Arab Spring, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, Bushehr, East Germany, Global Brief, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hoover Institution, Iran's domestic politics, Iran's nuclear programme, Iran-US relations, Iranian democracy, Iranian diaspora, Israël, Khamenei, Khomeini, Pahlavi, Saudi Arabia, Shah, Sharia, Social Contract, Stanford University, Syria, Turkish democracy
The future of democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is with the unstructured, civic action networks that started...
Tags: Arab civil society, Arab democracy, Arab Spring, Arab world, Arab-Persian relations, Bahrain, civil society, Egypt, EU, European Union, Facebook, Global Brief, Green Movement, Green Revolution, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Middle East, NATO, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sunni-Shia relations, Sven Spengemann, Syria, Tunisia, Twitter, UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Yemen
Religion, artificially divorced from the public sphere, makes for an impoverished politics at best, and a benighted political...
Tags: Andrew P.W. Bennett, clash of civilizations, faith and politics, Khmer Rouge, Nazi Holocaust, neo-atheists, religious state, Samuel Huntington, Saudi Arabia, secular state, secular West, Stalin, theocracy, Tony Blair, Turkey
