North Korea's decision to expel UN atomic energy inspectors is but another reason to view Roh Moo Hyun's election as South Korea's president…

Why does Africa continue to perform poorly, despite two decades of structural reform? Most African governments have liberalized their trade …

President Bush seems poised to wreck America's budget for years to come. When Bush came into office, the outlook was for budget surpluses as…

Corporate accounting scandals - indeed, the economic history of the last decade - demonstrate that global financial markets need politically…

Why is it so difficult to implement the deregulation needed to make an economy more competitive? Why do so many governments try to achieve t…

President Bush has fired and replaced his Treasury Secretary and chief economic advisor. Will those changes make any difference? Economic hi…

Everyone nowadays seems obsessed about the question as to whether or not Islam can be reconciled with modernization. In discussing this issu…

Since the dawn of human consciousness, we have contemplated our own mortality and dreamed of ways of overcoming it. Until recently, achievin…

" Those who desire to treat politics and morals separately will never understand anything of either." So wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and …

In Charles Dicken's great novel "A Christmas Carol," the soulless businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge is tormented by a visit from the Spirit of C…

Long quiescent, Ecuador's Indians--like native groups in much of Latin America--are finding their political voice and making their presence …

EU Economics Commissioner Pedro Solbes warns that Europe's shrinking population will soon hit the Continent's economies hard. Reforms to def…

Three cheers for the new Nobel laureates in economics: Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University, and Vernon Smith of George Mason University …

Contrary to popular wisdom, Chinese efforts to control the Internet and other new media are not doomed to fail. China's government has lost …

On December 10th, women from around the world will gather at the European Parliament to fight against Female Genital Mutilation. According t…

On his recent visit to Brussels, Russian President Vladimir Putin stunned European leaders and journalists alike with his comments about the…

"I have an important political mission," Eduardo Amadeo said on being appointed Argentina's ambassador to Washington. "I must explain our tr…

In the film "Groundhog Day," Bill Murray plays a hapless TV weatherman who seems condemned to endlessly relive the same day over and over ag…

The UN weapons inspectors are now at work in Iraq, trying to determine how many weapons of mass destruction have been developed in the last …

After pensions and healthcare, higher education is the third great public service in serious trouble in many countries, notably in Europe. P…

The European Union summit that just ended in Copenhagen has more or less settled the EU's future frontiers. Ten new members, from Central Eu…

This week the EU's 15 Heads of state and government from the current Member States and the leaders of the 13 candidate countries meet in Cop…

Following centuries of bold explorations in science, navigation and engineering, Continental Europe in the 20 th century launched major soc…

Corruption is one of Africa's endemic problems. Indeed, it is a key issue in Nigeria's approaching presidential election, given President Ob…

Deciphering the human genome has provided insights into the nature of humanity, our relationship to the world, and our future. We now have t…