Word: interconnectedness
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With the revelation two months ago that Harvard still holds stock—albeit indirectly—in companies from which it had allegedly divested because of their involvement in Sudan, the student divestment movement has been launched anew. Apparently, the Corporation’s April 2005 decision to divest...
To be sure, in today’s interconnected, global marketplace, it would be virtually impossible to avoid all contacts with major firms like the two in question. By playing “six degrees of PetroChina,” one could no doubt find Harvard-backed companies that invested...
The answer: not much-at least not immediately. In theory, the global Internet is highly resistant to catastrophic failure because it's a mesh of interconnected smaller networks, all providing alternative data pathways should any single link fail. Indeed, Asia's abundant data capacity and plentiful circuits-a legacy of...
Elsewhere, Israelis and Palestinians have descended into one of the most intractable cycles of conflict in their long struggle. In Lebanon, the national unity agreement that ended almost two decades of civil war in 1990 appears to be unraveling, as sectarian factions are again edging toward another bloodbath. Meanwhile, Arab...
For his part, Alyami still believes in the administration’s democratic program for the Middle East, but says Bush has his hands full with Iraq and Afghanistan: “America is an international power with an interconnected economy, when the administration adds up all the Saudi influence...