Globalization

Embarrassment of Riches

Natural resources would seem to promise easy money. Welcome to the dark side.

BY PETER PASSELL | FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The Little Economy That Could

If you're looking for an unlikely economic success story, you can hardly do better than Mauritius.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The Slow Death of 'Asian Values'

Why the latest news from Malaysia helps to undermine authoritarianism throughout the region.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 18, 2012

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

16 Global Cities to Watch

From Singapore to Christchurch, the urban centers that are shaping the next century.

BY EDWARD GLAESER, SASKIA SASSEN | DECEMBER 2011

The Mall of the World

What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.

BY GORDON MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat

A visual history of the West's misguided attempts to send its hand-me-downs to the developing world.

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Doctors Without Borders

Letting medical professionals and other skilled workers from the developing world emigrate is a good deal for everyone.

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 11, 2011

America Really Was That Great

… But that doesn't mean we are now.

BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL MANDELBAUM | NOVEMBER 2011

Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt

The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world.

BY CHARLES KENNY | NOVEMBER 2011

The Geopolitics of Energy in the 21st Century

The second installment of an interview with Daniel Yergin.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 5, 2011

The Buck Stays Here

Why the dollar isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Red Dawn

Why the United States should embrace, not fear, China's economic rise.

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Crisis Convergence

Why the global economic crash, the rise of the Tea Party, the Arab Spring, and China’s coming fall are all connected.

BY GEORGE MAGNUS | AUGUST 31, 2011

The Cowboy Abroad

We know plenty about what Rick Perry, the GOP's newest presidential front-runner, thinks of America. But what about the rest of the world?

BY ERICA GRIEDER | AUGUST 24, 2011

Little Is the New Big

From Angry Birds to crowd-sourced science, the "micromultinational" corporation is here.

BY SOPHIA JONES | AUGUST 19, 2011

Come Together

Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?

BY DAVID BOSCO | AUGUST 18, 2011

The Fault Lines of Failed States

Can social science determine what makes one state fail and another succeed?

BY JEFFREY HERBST, GREG MILLS | AUGUST 15, 2011

A Murderer's Manifesto and Me

Anders Behring Breivik, Norway's mass murderer, was a fan of my writing. Here's what I found within his perverse 1,518-page manuscript.

BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | AUGUST 1, 2011

Famine Is a Crime

Civilization has defeated mass starvation. So why are so many Somalis dying of hunger?

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 25, 2011

Rise of the Radical Right

Anders Behring Breivik is not alone. In fact, Europe has many more dangerous extremists than anyone thinks.

BY JAMIE BARTLETT, JONATHAN BIRDWELL | JULY 25, 2011

Breivik's Swamp

Was the Oslo killer radicalized by what he read online?

BY TOBY ARCHER | JULY 25, 2011

On the Economy, Be Careful What You Wish For

A major shift in global economic power is approaching. Can the U.S. cope?

BY IAN BREMMER | JULY/AUGUST 2011

The Missionary Position

Mormonism will affect the foreign policies of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman -- just not in the way you might expect.

BY MOLLY WORTHEN | JUNE 13, 2011

Emerging Hangover

It will take more than BRICS to build the post-American economy.

BY KATI SUOMINEN | APRIL 19, 2011

The Future of Trade

The Deep Dive briefing on the World Trade Organization and why it matters.

BY JOSHUA MELTZER | APRIL 18, 2011

Nothing Free About It

The supposedly free trade deals miss the real barriers to global exchange.

BY CLYDE V. PRESTOWITZ | APRIL 18, 2011

The People's Prescription

Why Congress must re-authorize measures to help globalization's jobless get back to work.

BY HOWARD ROSEN | APRIL 18, 2011

Get Lost

A new book explores the roots of deep travel -- as necessary for Manhattan homebodies as for madcap foreign correspondents.

BY PAUL SALOPEK | MARCH 28, 2011

Corps Concerns

In an age of globe-trotting American college kids, ubiquitous Internet access, and cell phone networks that reach even sub-Saharan cattle herders, does the world still need the Peace Corps?

BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 22, 2011