The Globalist

At the 2002 G-8 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, South Africa's Thabo Mbeki will launch the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad). Part of the plan is to set up a peer review, whereby African governments can be criticized in order to strengthen the continents leadership. New Globalist contributor Nicholas Thompson examines Ghana's African leadership -- past and present.

On March 7, 1957, the day after Ghana became the first Sub-Saharan nation to win its independence, founding president Kwame… more

In recent months, leading analysts in the United States have begun making comparisons between the United States and the Roman empire. On the right, conservatives like Max Boot of the Wall Street Journal editorial page have openly called for "benign" American imperialism.

Meanwhile, on the center-left, some "humanitarian hawks" are as eager as many conservatives to use U.S. military force in wars to pre-empt threats and topple hostile regimes.

In the past, parallels between Imperial Rome and… more

In retrospect, George W. Bush's Middle East policy appears to have been based on two goals supported by the President -- if not by every member of his administration. The first goal was informal U.S. control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. This goal was to be realized by means of alliance with friendly Arab tyrannies (Saudi Arabia and a post-Saddam dictatorship in Iraq).

Giving the Israelis free reign

The second goal was to give Israel's right wing… more