World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- India, the United States, and High-Tech Trade Neena Shenai 03/14/2010
- The U.S.-India trade relationship requires more attention, from both sides.
- Two Cheers for American Exceptionalism Joseph Loconte 03/05/2010
- President Obama rejects American exceptionalism in a manner never before seen in an American commander in chief.
- Will the President Confront His Base On Trade? Philip I. Levy 03/04/2010
- While a desire to strengthen the economy and to engage with other major nations of the world may dictate a more open trade policy, the administration is constrained by strong opposition within its base.
- Due North: Canada’s Marvelous Mortgage and Banking System Mark J. Perry 02/26/2010
- What about the Canadian banking system allowed it to survive the recent worldwide slowdown without a single bank failure? What can the United States learn from Canada about sound banking?
- Maybe Milton Was Right About the Euro Desmond Lachman 02/23/2010
- At the time of the euro’s launch in 1999, Milton Friedman famously observed that the euro would not survive the first major European economic recession. In the end, Friedman will prove to have been right.
- Where Is America in Asia’s Future? Claude Barfield 02/03/2010
- Recent events and trends within Asia may well portend a stepped up pace for Asian regionalism—and heightened danger that the United States will find itself on the outside looking in.
- Germany Puts Up Its Dukes? Gary Schmitt and Philipp Tomio 02/01/2010
- The German government has slowly begun to accept the reality that, to save Afghanistan from the return of Taliban rule, some real fighting will have to take place.
- I Spy? Not Anymore Michael Mazza 01/29/2010
- The National Security Council has ordered that the intelligence community downgrade China from a first to a second priority. It’s another victory for an American adversary.
- Haiti’s Disasters: Natural and Man-Made Roger Noriega 01/14/2010
- Before the natural disasters of the last decade, a man-made disaster hit Haiti. As the Obama administration responds to this crisis, it should learn from past experience.
- What Afghanistan Can Learn from Colombia Robert Haddick 01/08/2010
- Ten years ago, Colombia faced a security crisis in many ways worse than the one currently facing Afghanistan.