Despite China's extraordinary recovery, the debate over its economic prospects has intensified as new questions have emerged about China's exit strategy and its relationship with the United States.
Over the next half century, the economies of developing countries are predicted to surge ahead of their advanced counterparts. Washington’s senior G20 diplomats gathered to discuss whether the world’s leaders are prepared.
The proposed U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement could potentially have adverse effects on Colombia’s economy and stability, and particularly on small farmers, who have already been disproportionately affected by Colombia’s internal conflict.
The large protest in Kaliningrad marks an increase in popular anti-Putin and anti-Kremlin sentiment and an opportunity for the opposition to work with the dissatisfied population and toward a more democratic Russia.
Haider Mullick, a fellow at the Joint Special Operations University and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, examined Pakistan's counterinsurgency strategy as well as U.S.-Pakistan relations.
In a shift that will affect all major dimensions of the global economy, including trade flows, capital flows, the size of the middle class, and carbon emissions, today’s developing countries are likely to become the world’s dominant economies by 2050.
The Iraqi parliamentary elections on March 7 will be a critical test for the young democracy. Ad Melkert, the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Iraq, assessed the latest situation on the ground in the run up to the elections and what the election means for the country's political future.
As market confidence in the Greek government debt teeters on collapse, and confidence in Portugal, Spain, and Ireland continues to erode, an urgent question has emerged: will the Euro area implode?
Since 2004, Egypt has experienced more than 1600 labor protests, which have dwarfed political protests in scale and consequence. What are the political ramifications of increased labor unrest? Are the labor movements a harbinger for a more active and mobilized Egyptian society?
The administration of President Barack Obama sees the repair of the U.S. relationship with Russia as a major foreign policy objective, and has spent its first year ambitiously attempting to reset relations and place them on a more positive footing.