WASHINGTON, DC/ISTANBUL – Almost a year has passed since revolution in Tunisia and protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square toppled ossified author…

LONDON – At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing…

NEW YORK – Someone recently quipped that the best thing about 2011 was that it was likely better than 2012. By the same token, while there h…

BEIJING – With economic globalization and the advent of a multi-polar world, China and other emerging countries are clearly set to play much…

WASHINGTON, DC – “The golden age of finance,” the economist Barry Eichengreen has said, “has now ended.” If that is true – and let us hope t…

NEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic…

NEW YORK – India’s Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Corazon Aquino …

WASHINGTON, DC – For the third time in five years, the world’s poorest countries are at risk of being hit by a crisis not of their making – …

NEW YORK – Too much of the talk nowadays about how social media has affected politics focuses on awareness: People adopt social media, disco…

MADRID – For more than six decades, Europe’s integration process has been steadily evolving. Each step, from the European Coal and Steel Com…

PRINCETON – The world may see Barack Obama as a leader weakened by the intractability of American domestic politics, but, as the 2012 presid…

MOSCOW – When a tsar is treated with mockery, rather than regarded with awe, it is time for him to consider retirement, or to prepare for a …

BERKELEY – As 2011 draws to a close, there are growing signs that Asia is becoming caught up in the global slowdown, dashing hopes that the …

LONDON – Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, I was at a meeting in the United States where a senior White House economic adviser …