World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- Despite the Doubters, It’s Still Top Dollar Desmond Lachman 06/27/2009
- There’s much chatter that the Chinese renminbi will eventually replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s preeminent international reserve currency, but this supposed inevitability is highly questionable.
- Offsets Chipping Away at the Cap Ted Gayer 06/23/2009
- The House of Representatives recently received a painful lesson in the pitfalls of carbon offsets. Despite this, it has decided to ignore this important lesson in its cap-and-trade bill.
- Emissions Control, Myths, and Realities Drew Thornley 06/19/2009
- The United States is having better luck at controlling its emissions than most other countries, without the multi-billion-dollar mandates of Kyoto.
- Twitter Takes Tehran Michael M. Rosen 06/18/2009
- As the mullahs have increasingly restricted the freedom of Western and Iranian journalists—essentially forbidding them from covering the demonstrations—amateurs and professionals alike have turned to Web 2.0 tools to get their message out.
- Obama’s Guantanamo Problem—And Ours James Glassman 05/22/2009
- Gitmo requires deep thought, not glib pronouncements. It also requires a dose of reality.
- The World Economy’s Europe Problem Desmond Lachman 05/07/2009
- As ‘green shoots’ of recovery sprout in the United States, potential crises in a number of European economies pose the main risk to any early global economic recovery.
- Who Should ‘Go First’ on Greenhouse Gas Control? Kenneth P. Green 04/17/2009
- The argument that the developed world should be the first to cut greenhouse gas emissions is illogical when viewing climate change as the long-term challenge it is purported to be.
- The Turkish Bridgehead Robert Ellis 04/16/2009
- Turkey is often mentioned as the West’s bridgehead to the Middle East—but Turkey could just as well be the Islamic world’s bridgehead in Europe.
- Nursing India’s Drug Market Back to Health Roger Bate 04/16/2009
- Regional and local officials are taking the initiative to stop the deadly and odious trade of counterfeit and substandard drugs in India.
- Keynes at the Border? Alan Viard 04/15/2009
- A common fallacy holds that imposing taxes on imports and rebating taxes on exports would stimulate the economy.