Word: pacificism
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Is China's clampdown a sign that Beijing has tired of running interference for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and will back U.S. efforts to force Pyongyang into giving up its nuclear weapons? Unlikely, says Alexandre Mansourov, a North Korea expert at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies...
Toys "R" Us. Dunkin' Donuts. Univision. Hertz. Those are names of well-known American companies. Bain. Carlyle. Texas Pacific. KKR. Those are names of the lesser-known outfits that bought them in the past year and a half. If you thought the New York Stock Exchange was the place to...
At 70 years old, McCain might have thought his days of living in the shadow of family military men were behind him. His grandfather, Admiral John S. McCain Sr., served in the Pacific in World War II and was present at the Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. His father...
What went wrong? Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committee, says the response to the Java tsunami actually represented a success for the interim warning system?and in a sense, he's right. Just 17 minutes after the earthquake struck off the coast of Java, scientists at...
Too often, however, politics have trumped practicalities. Initially the Indian Ocean warning system was supposed to be truly regional, with a single center processing and sending out alerts to endangered countries. But that plan collapsed as various nations balked at sharing data and responsibility; instead they competed to host the...