Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
By Oliver P. Richmond Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding.
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...
Global Energy Dilemmas: Revisited
By Michael Bradshaw
When it comes to global energy consumption, business as usual is no longer an option. Here Michael Bradshaw reflects on the energy...
Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense
Interview with James Zhan
Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this is...
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
Lessons from the Microsoft Antitrust Cases
By Andrew I Gavil and Harry First
For three decades Microsoft has been engaged with the global system for enforcing competition policy. In an excerpt...
World Investment Forum 2014: Investing in Sustainable Development
By Henrietta Morris
In the early 1960s, developing countries began to raise concerns regarding their place in international trade, calling for a conference whose specific...
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred....
Can Capitalism Save the Environment?
By Tabitha M. Benney
Developing economies can provide an invaluable contribution to the effort to prevent further climate change. Below Tabitha M. Benney illustrates how...
Leverage For Good: The New World of Social-Purpose Finance
By Lester M. Salamon
A revolution is underway on the frontiers of philanthropy. New charitable models hold the promise of leveraging for social and environmental...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
