RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William J. Antholis, February 06, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Which are the seven most important states in India? And who are their leaders? Population, economic output, and productivity all matter. So do the politicians themselves. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Kagan, February 03, 2012, NPR Morning Edition
Robert Kagan discusses America's evolving role in a globalized world and his book, The World America Made, on NPR's Morning Edition. Kagan argues that the United States remains strong despite economic difficulties, and a decline in international power is far from inevitable. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Kagan, February 02, 2012, The Washington Post
Robert Kagan writes that a decrease in America's military power could have major global implications. Kagan argues that if the United States lost its ability to contain other countries' conflicting ambitions, adjustments to create a new global balance could result in war Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Diana Villiers Negroponte, January 31, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Diana Villiers Negroponte discusses the complex relationship between the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on trade and global economics. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
William J. Antholis, January 24, 2012, The Brookings Institution
In India, the shifting of power to the states is the opposite of the American experience. William Antholis describes how India’s founding fathers wanted a unitary government with federal features, which only started to decentralize after a half century. In the United States, the opposite happened, as strong states slowly gave way to a powerful (but still limited) federal government. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Kagan, January 17, 2012, The New Republic
Influenced by Robert Kagan’s work, President Barack Obama argued that, "Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about." Kagan expands upon the myth of American decline in this article and in his new book, The World America Made. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Charles K. Ebinger, January 17, 2012, The National Journal
Charles Ebinger identifies the costs and benefits of U.S. export of natural gas. According to Ebinger, many of the arguments against exporting natural gas via Shale Gas Harvesting are based on limited information, and the full range of factors needs to be considered before the United States decides to increase or decrease Shale Gas Exports. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone and Emily Alinikoff, January 09, 2012, The Brookings Institution
Ted Piccone and Emily Alinikoff offer an in-depth assessment of international democracy and human rights policy approaches of five rising global powers: Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Cesare Merlini, December 02, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Cesare Merlini examines interrelations and connections between two popular areas of study in political science—the power shift taking place at the world level due to the rise of Asia and the decline of the West and the growing role of religion in a globalized world. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jonathan Pollack, November 09, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Jonathan Pollack writes on President Obama's upcoming trip across the Pacific, with stops at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, the U.S.-ASEAN Summit, the East Asia Summit, and in Australia. While the president will focus on America’s enduring commitment to regional diplomacy, economics and security, Pollack argues that the immobilized political process in Washington, D.C. could diminish the seriousness of this strategic purpose. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone, July 08, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Ted Piccone reports on his June trip to Lithuania for the Community of Democracies’ Sixth Ministerial Meeting. In Vilnius, Piccone writes, hundreds of diplomats, parliamentarians, civil society activists and business leaders gathered to move the vision of an international coalition of democracies—committed to support democratic transition and consolidation worldwide—a step closer to reality. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz, July 05, 2011, YaleGlobal
By combining the recent country survey data of household consumption with latest figures on private consumption growth, Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz generated poverty estimates to the present day. Through their research, they conclude that the UN millennium goal to halve poverty may have been achieved, noting that the world – even stubborn sub-Saharan Africa – is in the midst of rapid poverty reduction due to economic growth and widespread development. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David Shambaugh, June 22, 2011, The Washington Quarterly
In 2009 and 2010, China exhibited increasingly tough and truculent behavior toward the United States, the European Union and many of its neighbors in Asia. David Shambaugh explores whether this change was a temporary trend or represents a longer-term shift, and proposes ways for other nations to respond. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Jones, June 14, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Bruce Jones writes that, while President Obama has made significant progress in constructing deeper relationships across the globe, the administration must focus on updating international institutions to address multiplying global power centers and transnational threats. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Tomas Williams , June 02, 2011, The Brookings Institution
Eduardo Levy-Yeyati and Tomas Williams evaluate patterns of financial globalization in developing countries in the last three decades, providing evidence on the still incipient nature of financial portfolio diversification in these economies. Levy-Yeyati and Williams also discuss the costs and benefits of financial globalization in the context of the latest global financial crisis, reviewing methodological choices in the empirical literature on the subject, and finding that previous analyses have overstated both the depth of this diversification and the benefits associated with it. Read More