Europe, Canada, and the democracies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America now bear the burden of keeping the old American ideal of the free world alive. While the ideal was always a noble lie, it enabled ...

Véronique Chabourine proposes “net interdependence assessments” as a way to cultivate EU partnerships that benefit both parties.

CAMBRIDGE—This week, US President Donald Trump will host his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the White House, and other world leaders will gather for the 81st sess ...

Marcin Piatkowski, a former lead economist at the World Bank for private-sector development in China and India, is Professor ...

Marcin Piatkowski points to the region’s success as evidence that convergence remains Europe’s most effective growth strategy.

Far from bolstering US dominance, Donald Trump’s embrace of coercive militarism has eroded it. When the distinction between war and peace dissolves into a ceasefire that is neither, and months of ...

Philipp Schönrock encourages the new leader to make difficult choices about which reforms to pursue and which activities to ...

Nicholas Stern considers the implications of a new UN report warning that humanity has been too slow to cut emissions.

Jayati Ghosh & Owen Gaffney warn that decarbonization is bound to fail unless it makes ordinary people better off.

Donald Trump’s refusal to respect international borders has already led Argentina and Morocco to revive territorial disputes ...

Guillermo Ortiz suggests that improved poverty figures are being offset by a broader deterioration in socioeconomic ...

The devastating floods in Nepal demonstrate what happens when reckless development puts climate-vulnerable communities in ...