The Globalist

On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday, we ask why Mahatma Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

For a long time, Mandela’s name was merely worth a whisper. Yet what he stood for now reverberates across the world, loud and clear.

The European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize doen’t ensure peace in the future.

Shouldn’t international financial aid be given first to countries that spend more on their people than on their militaries?

What are the differences between the last two U.S. Presidents to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

According to Liberia’s president, what kind of leadership does her continent need?

How does the legacy of the late Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai live on?

How is the global economic crisis generating a political backlash — even in the prosperous core of the eurozone?

How did the world’s major events in 2010 look to the headline writers?

In the absence of democracy, how do Chinese citizens convey their frustrations to the government?