Joseph Stiglitz recently dismissed the relevance of secular stagnation to the American economy, and in the process attacked (without naming me) my work in the...
Wars are expensive, as the Russian people are now learning. The Kremlin is pursuing military adventures in Eastern Ukraine and Syria, and though these...
As Venezuela’s great experiment with “Bolivarian” socialism implodes, it is creating a humanitarian and refugee crisis comparable to Europe in 2015.
European security currently rests essentially on the NATO alliance and the principle of mutual defense, and on cooperation between national intelligence...
For 70 years, since the creation of Israel, the U.S. has involved itself in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, often putting the Jewish state’s interests above...
It has grown impossible not to recognize that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have reached the final stretch in their bid to wipe out the Palestinian...
For several years now, scholars have argued that the world is experiencing a “democratic recession.”
The public conversation this past week was dominated by a book about a man who is obsessed with winning, President Donald Trump.
So far this year, the world has marked the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring (and its suppression), the centennial of the end of World War I, and the...
Assad’s future is looking brighter these days.
Back in 1965, Vaery Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s finance minister, famously called the benefits the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the...
“The Iran sanctions have officially been cast,” tweeted U.S. President Donald Trump three months after he signed an executive order in May announcing his...
No policy is as self-defeating during recessionary times as the pursuit of a budget surplus for the purpose of containing public debt – austerity, for short.
In 2000, the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri invited me to introduce environmental dimensions into his parliamentary elections platform, while the economic...
Sept. 1 is a major cornerstone in Lebanon’s history: It marks the inception of The State of Greater Lebanon.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Aug. 24 abruptly canceled Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s planned trip to North Korea.
Officials in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration have repeatedly described the ongoing conflict in Yemen as a proxy war between Iran and Saudi...
On Aug. 31, the United States announced that it would provide no additional funding to UNRWA. I express deep regret and disappointment at the nature of the...
The British government has now launched its plan to turn the United Kingdom into an “exporting superpower.” It is an ambitious, if not entirely fanciful, goal.
President Conald Trump’s bigoted hatred of Latino immigrants has been clear from the beginning. Now his administration is aggressively persecuting Latino...
This month, the Global Climate Action Summit – one of the largest international gatherings on climate change the world has seen – will be held in San Francisco.
Despite the tensions generated by Brexit, the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have stood together in disputes between the European Union and...
Digital technologies are a double-edged sword for the world’s women.
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, some economists argued that the United States, and perhaps the global economy, was suffering from “secular...
What explains Australia’s bizarre leadership churn? No prime minister has served a full term since 2007, with five different faces becoming prime minister in...
One of the great geopolitical issues in 19th-century Europe was the so-called Eastern Question. The Ottoman Empire, then known as the “sick man of Europe,”...
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the European Parliament in May, he boasted that his company pays tens of thousands of moderators to...
It is becoming increasingly clear globalization progresses not steadily, but through ups and downs.
Asia’s future is inextricably tied to the Himalayas, the world’s tallest mountain range and the source of the water-stressed continent’s major river systems.