Lonely Ideas
By Loren Graham
Russian technology has had a historically uneven trajectory. In recent times Russia has fallen back on natural resources for economic strength, but...
Sovereignty, Rule of Law and Global Civil Society
By Winston Nagan
Global society is increasingly expressing itself through globally identifiable institutions of civil society. In this article, Winston Nagan explores the inter-relationship of...
Can Think Tanks Influence Public Opinion and Improve Policy?
By Andrew Selee
Think tanks have sprung up throughout the world, trying to generate ideas and analysis that can be useful in public debate and...
Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance in Putin’s Russia
By Alena Ledeneva
In her new monograph Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, Alena Ledeneva seeks to decode and reveal how informal...
The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring
By Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor
The recent uprisings in the Arab World carry a broader lesson, highlighting the importance of sustaining an economy...
Fiscal Child Abuse American Style
By Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns
President Kennedy said, “Our problems are man-made. Therefore, they may be solved by man.” Looking at America’s current horrendous...
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...
Immigration Policy and Executive Power at Loose Ends: The Case of the US1
By Philip Kretsedemas
The discretionary powers of the US Presidency have steadily expanded over the course of the 20th century. These powers are especially pertinent...
Welcome to the Post-American World: Barack Obama, US Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
By Robert Singh
Obama set himself the task of managing America’s decline while retaining primacy in the international order. Yet his substantive achievements have been...
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
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...
