BRUSSELS – Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order remain in the making. But…

CAMBRIDGE – Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher brought about a revolution in thinking and policy in both economics and for…

WASHINGTON, DC – The world economy has just been through a severe recession marked by financial turmoil, large-scale destruction of wealth, …

CAMBRIDGE – Who will suffer the longest and the most from the implosion in 2008-2009 of Wall Street and the ensuing world recession? Not the…

NEW YORK – We are at a moment when the range of uncertainties facing the global economy is unusually wide. We have just passed through the w…

NEW HAVEN – Volatility in the housing market has long been known, but until now it has never been visible in so many places around the world…

NEW YORK – The best that can be said for 2009 is that it could have been worse, that we pulled back from the precipice on which we seemed to…

WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly one year ago, the global economic situation looked grim: a severe global recession, sizeable wealth destruction, an…

NEW YORK – The basic outlines of Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy became clear in 2009. His administration believes that the United…

LONDON – The Middle East continues to have the highest concentration of dictatorships in the world. But 2009 was the year that democracy app…

PRINCETON – President Barack Obama’s administration spent much of 2009 preoccupied domestically with the political fight over extending heal…

FLORENCE – Major economic crises are inevitably also structural milestones. There is no simple return to a pre-crisis normalcy. Something ch…

MOSCOW – “Image is everything” might be a viable credo if you are the house of Gucci or a catwalk model, but it is definitely not appropriat…

So you thought this year was bad! 2009 began with the flattening of Gaza. Unemployment is surging in many countries, even though we can dete…