We have much to learn from late Asian tigerWORLD VIEW: Region understands how important it is to downsize an overblown financial sectorSat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00
Where now for Europe and its people?WORLD VIEW: LIVING THROUGH the euro zone crisis, it helps to put the rush of events in political and historical perspective …Sat Oct 22 2011 - 01:00
Criticism of capitalism itself neededWORLD VIEW: THE ECONOMIC problems we face are structural not cyclical, global rather than regional and on a par with previous…Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
Maastricht's political strand back in vogueWORLD VIEW: THE LAST time I was in Maastricht was for the European summit in December 1991 which negotiated the eponymous treaty…Sat Sept 17 2011 - 01:00
Irish links with US shaped policy on atrocitiesANALYSIS: CONSISTENCY SHINES out as a prominent standard in assessing how Ireland’s foreign policy responded to the 9/11 atrocities…Thu Sept 08 2011 - 01:00
Parallels in problems of US and euro zoneWORLD VIEW: THE TOPSY-turvy world of international markets and finance – and the associated media coverage – focuses at the …Sat Aug 06 2011 - 01:00
Rise of Middle Kingdom begs new strategy‘WE NEED a new model for sustainable economic growth which goes beyond conventional thinking, and China will have to be at the…Sat Jul 09 2011 - 01:00
West's period of mastery may be on the waneWORLD VIEW: Decisions made in next 40 years will be the most important in history of the worldSat Jun 11 2011 - 01:00
Euro crisis solution lies in political arenaWORLD VIEW: The alternative visions of economists must focus better on what is possible internationallySat May 14 2011 - 01:00
EU must act constructively over Arab crisisWORLD VIEW: Upheaval in Middle East may have same implications for EU as fall of the Berlin WallSat Apr 30 2011 - 01:00
Balance on restructuring debt necessaryWORLD VIEW : Escaping the passive mentality of being ‘peripheral’ means having confidence to reshape the euro regimeSat Apr 16 2011 - 01:00
EU divisions can work to our advantageWORLD VIEW: A grand bargain on economic governance seems unlikely, giving scope for negotiationSat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00
Irish insight valuable to EU policy debateWORLD VIEW: ‘Irish politicians should not be shy about urging a better deal for Europe’Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
Change poses identity crisis for Middle EastWORLD VIEW: New technology has made contradiction between stability and reform more obviousSat Feb 05 2011 - 00:00
Arab world ponders future after TunisiaWORLD VIEW: Social media’s role central to discussion about democratisation of authoritarian statesSat Jan 22 2011 - 00:00
Real world calculus of moral hazardWORLD VIEW : The banking crisis is an unsustainable socialisation of private loss at public expenseSat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Seeds of crisis, and necessary solutions, lie in euro zone interdependenceWORLD VIEW: We have seen the weaknesses of pooled economic sovereignty – but strengthening it is in Ireland’s interestSat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00
Germany must save euro zone or scrap it, says HabermasGERMANY’S LEADERS face a crucial choice between saving and developing the euro zone to protect their economic interests in the…Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
Merkel has depleted her capital of trust within EUJürgen Habermas, who receives the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin next week, is Germany’s foremost philosopher …Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
Hamas must be part of Middle East settlementWORLD VIEW: Israel and Palestinians have much to learn from the solution to conflict in NorthSat May 29 2010 - 01:00
Reform of EU can prevent its declineWORLD VIEW: The union must move from an elitist approach to face up to systemic challengesSat May 15 2010 - 01:00
Rail network may be just the ticket for ChinaWORLD VIEW: China’s transcontinental rail plan would be the biggest infrastructure project in historySat May 01 2010 - 01:00
Polarisation penetrating US cultureWORLD VIEW: Sharp divisions are emerging within the Republican and Democratic partiesSat Nov 28 2009 - 00:00
Engaging with citizens can aid EU integrationWORLD VIEW: Voters must have clearer choices between policies, leaders and partiesSat Oct 10 2009 - 01:00
Public can play crucial role in legitimising EUIRELAND IS a cockpit for contending European political currents in the closing stages of the second Lisbon referendumSat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00
No vote would be an irrational act of self-injuryWORLD VIEW: In punching a hole in EU identity, our rejection of Lisbon would also align us with a Eurosceptical UKSat Sept 12 2009 - 01:00
Stirrings of Asian unity to shake up worldWORLD VIEW: ‘THINK ASIA!” That’s what the organisers of the sixth international conference of Asian scholars urged those attending…Sat Aug 15 2009 - 01:00
We cannot let belief in news values sufferWORLD VIEW: ACCORDING TO the German philosopher Hegel, writing in 1806, “the morning reading of the newspaper is a kind of realistic…Sat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00
Making sense of the global confusionWORLD VIEW: CHINA’S PRIME minister, Wen Jiabao, always carries a copy of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) when…Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00
Irish voters can influence EU decisionsWORLD VIEW: WHAT DIFFERENCE does the European Council’s decision last December that all EU member states will retain the right…Sat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
Iran rebellion a critical test for Obama policyWORLD VIEW: IF IRAN was at the centre of George Bush’s axis of evil it is also pivotal for Barack Obama’s policy-making in the…Sat Jun 20 2009 - 01:00
Why Chimerica alone may not ring quite trueWORLD VIEW: A “PAX-CHIMERICANA” would invite international hostility, be impossible for China to sustain politically, undermine…Sat Jun 06 2009 - 01:00
European elections should focus on policies, not personalitiesWORLDVIEW: ‘EUROPEAN POLITICIANS and parties are not doing their job – that is engaging average citizens in the European public…Sat May 23 2009 - 01:00
History holds key to mutual understandingWORLD VIEW: PROFESSIONAL HISTORY and public memory are separate but related aspects of cultureSat May 16 2009 - 01:00
Great debate over inflation goes globalWORLD VIEW: 'IF CENTRAL banks cannot mop up the huge liquidity when economic recovery comes through, asset bubbles and inflation…Sat May 09 2009 - 01:00
Parallels of accession states and IrelandWORLD VIEW: ‘IT HAPPENED here in IrelandSat May 02 2009 - 01:00
Global nature of recession more apparentWORLD VIEW: SCATTERED THROUGH the international policy websites, economic blogs and media discussion of the economic crisis …Sat Apr 18 2009 - 01:00
Simplification of civilisations is dangerousWORLD VIEW: THE PHRASE “Islam and the West” sounds innocuous to many European earsSat Apr 11 2009 - 01:00
Obama and the new patterns of geopoliticsWORLD VIEW: WORLD POWER and wealth distributions are shifting geographically and politically towards new centres of influence…Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00
Obama needs courage for opening to IranWORLD VIEW: ‘YOU CHANGE and we shall change as well... Changes must be real..Sat Mar 28 2009 - 00:00
Making a virtue out of a moral impasseWORLD VIEW: ABOUT 500 people packed out a UCD lecture hall yesterday week to hear a lecture by Alasdair MacIntyre entitled “…Sat Mar 14 2009 - 00:00
Globalisation in reverse is better than a retreat to protectionismWORLD VIEW: CONTRACTION IS the new buzzword to describe what is happening in world and national economiesSat Mar 07 2009 - 00:00
Applying press ethics to truth and war in the Middle EastWORLD VIEW: ‘PRESS FREEDOM is a responsibility exercised by journalists on behalf of the publicSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Applying press ethics to truth and war in the Middle EastWORLD VIEW: ‘PRESS FREEDOM is a responsibility exercised by journalists on behalf of the publicSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
EU structures leave it at one remove from growing crisisWORLD VIEW : There is no effective way for voters to effect major EU policy change on the economic crisisSat Feb 07 2009 - 00:00
Gaza conflict a template for US policy on IranWORLD VIEW: EVERYONE WANTS to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to TehranSat Jan 10 2009 - 00:00
A gamble that may yet cost us the EarthWORLD VIEW: IN THE middle of this economic whirlwind people are reaching out for ways to explain the events and put them in …Sat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00
Peeling back layers beneath 'terrorism' labelWORLD VIEW: OF TERRORISM it can truly be said, in the words of the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, that those who know do not speak…Sat Nov 29 2008 - 00:00
G20 nations emerging as broader forumWORLD VIEW: YESTERDAY EU leaders in Brussels, today and tomorrow G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Sao Paulo…Sat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
