The world economy is increasingly threatened by volatile market reactions to global imbalances at a time when the IMF has largely lost its o…

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first Muslim woman to lead a Muslim country, is a serious blow to Pakistan’s prospects for democrac…

PARIS – Once, as I picked up the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen at his hotel, the receptionist asked me if I was his driver. After hes…

The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has brought Pakistan’s state of turmoil to new heights. As head of the nation’s mo…

A full-scale financial crisis is triggered by a sharp fall in the prices of a large set of assets that banks and other financial institution…

The next few weeks will see the resolution, one way or another, of the last territorial issues remaining in the Balkans, where the wars of t…

Kosovo’s march toward independence is gathering pace, with the leaders of Kosovo’s Albanians – Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku – threatening to d…

Things aren’t going well in Afghanistan. Sometime at the turn of 2001/2002, the Bush administration concluded that the stabilization and rec…

For eight years, George W. Bush has managed to incarnate and reinforce all the prejudices and negative stereotypes the world has of the US. …

A global killer is ripping through the world’s poorer countries largely unchecked. Within 25 years, it will cause 10 million deaths a year w…

The world has taken an important step toward controlling climate change by agreeing to the Bali Action Plan at the global negotiations in In…

Forget MIT. Hello, Tsing Hua University. For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda’s top software company, dreams of Beijing, …

LOS ANGELES -- Nuclear facilities as military targets? The drumbeat appears to be growing louder. Western leaders repeatedly declare…

Among the many surprises during the Republican Party presidential candidates’ debates a couple of weeks ago was the rekindled importance of …

NEW YORK – The violence in Congo is unspeakable. But, if the horror of Congo’s recent wars – which have killed more people than any war sinc…

In recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe. This is easy to show: in the United…

BERLIN – The recent comprehensive assessment by America’s spy agencies about Iran’s nuclear program and ambitions – the so-called “National …

BRUSSELS – Friend or foe, or something uneasily in-between? That’s the question Europe is asking about Russia, and Russia about a newly aggr…

As an Australian citizen, I voted in the recent federal election there. So did about 95% of registered Australian voters. That figure contra…

Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage: “Be careful about what you wish for.” In the best of all wor…

The European Central Bank remains seriously out of step with other key central banks in the industrial world despite recently announced coor…

COPENHAGEN -- Since time immemorial, people have worried about the earth’s future. We once believed that the sky would fall. More re…

The United States needs to rediscover how to be a “smart power.” That was the conclusion of a bipartisan commission that I recently co-chair…

PRINCETON – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anointment of Alexander Medvedev to succeed him in what is supposed to be a democratic presid…

PALO ALTO -- Last fall, the United Kingdom issued a major government report on global climate change directed by Sir Nicholas Stern,…