It is entirely possible that when Russian President Vladimir Putin gazes up at the stars at night and imagines the world of his dreams, he smiles at the...
The United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum has shaken equity and financial markets around the world.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday he does not yet have a foreign policy team, and three former U.S. military and...
An interesting article appeared on the website of the National Interest this week, written by Nawaf Obaid, a visiting fellow at the Belfer Center of Harvard...
When it comes to sovereign debt, the term “default” is often misunderstood. It almost never entails the complete and permanent repudiation of the entire stock...
Inviting Iran to the recent round of talks on the Syria crisis in Vienna, Austria, had far-reaching implications.
Opinion polls are one thing, but Nielsen numbers speak more loudly to television executives: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s ability to...
Does putting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death make him a martyr for the cause?
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden calls the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates to clarify that he did not mean to imply in his remarks last week that the...
In September 2018, we argued that China’s economic and foreign policies were defying the “laws” of economics and geopolitics, and warned that the situation...
Algeria’s recent victory in the Africa Cup of Nations - the continent’s biennial men’s football championship - was not just the triumphant culmination of a...
Seldom does a dense report from a statistical agency take your breath away, but the latest publication on the United States’ national income accounts from the...
A recurrent topic in the financial press for much of 2018 has been the rising risks in the emerging market asset class. Emerging economies are, of course, a...
For an all-too-brief period between the late ’80s and the late 2000s, the world was characterized by convergence, both ideological and economic.
Over the past 15 years, China has fueled one of the most dramatic and geographically far-reaching surges in official peacetime lending in history.
From Argentina to Turkey and from South Africa to Indonesia, emerging markets are once again being roiled by financial turbulence.
The challenges posed by an aging population are manifold, and they are neither new nor unique.
Negotiations on geoengineering technologies ended in deadlock at the recent United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, when a Swiss-backed...