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US Foreign Policy: Turmoil in the Middle East

Martin S. Indyk and Tamara Cofman Wittes | Brookings
The US president is leaving a difficult political legacy behind him in the Middle East. The civil war in Iraq is still smoldering, there are threats of complete destabilization in Lebanon and the Gaza strip, and Iran’s plans for weapons of mass ...More

Bush Bashers are Wrong About Asia

Victor D. Cha | Foreign Affairs
The subject of Asia has become a common source of criticism in US politics. Many Republicans want to see an end to cooperation with Peking because of China’s alleged attempt to displace the US in Asia, its defense budget, missile buildup, growing submarine ...More

Climate Change Threatens International Security

John Podesta and Peter Ogden | Washington Quarterly
The geopolitical consequences of climate change are determined as much by political, social and economic factors as by the climatic shift itself. As a rule wealthier countries will be better prepared to cope with the effects of climate change whilst ...More

The Globalization of Health Care

David E. Bloom | Finance and Development
Health threats have become increasingly global in modern times. That’s not to say that epidemics have respected national borders in the past, The plague in the Middle Ages and Spanish flu at the beginning of the 20th century are strong evidence of this. However, ...More

Integrating a Rising China into a Declining Western Order

G. John Ikenberry
With China’s economy predicted to double over the next decade — and surpass the United States’ economic leadership by 2020 — there is no question that China is on the rise. The question is not if or how China’s ...More

The Multinationals New Competition

The Boston Consulting Group
The desire for growth essentially drives the globalization of these companies. Having realized that a strong presence on their home market is not sufficient to secure their long term sustainability, they move abroad, in search of continued growth and the ability to ...More

Enterprise in the Arab World: Held Back by Politics

Tarek Osman
A Missed Opportunity The economic backwardness of the Arab World is striking. Its poor record is second only to Sub-Saharan Africa. In a region of 250 million people, more than 50% of whom are under 35, more than 40% of whom are under the ...More

The Awakening of Central Asia

Johannes Linn
The international interest in the development of Central Asia increased sharply during the last two decades. Johannes Linn identifies in his article “Central Asia: A New Hub of Global Integration” the main reasons for this renewed attention: the geopolitical ...More

A Lack of Real Innovation in India and China

The Economist
Alarmists, especially in the US, fear that China’s and India’s combination of raw brainpower and raw ambition will threaten America’s technological leadership, while skeptics dwell on the countries’ shortage of national champions ...More

Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal and Its Islamic Extremists

Peter Wonacott
Drawing on the US Personnel Reliability Program, officials now check applicants and personnel for characteristics that might make them more likely to betray their nation’s secrets. Religious fervor is among the ones most thoroughly searched for. …More