Global Governance & Politics

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address at Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, February 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ruvan Boshoff/Pool - RC1A38ED7AB0

A new dawn for South Africa?

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A delegate walks outside International Monetary Fund headquarters after closing of the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - S1BEUGANWIAA

Time to reform the multilateral development bank system

Amar Bhattacharya and Homi Kharas

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A shanty town is seen in front of the skyline of Manila's financial district of Makati City March 5, 2008. A third of the entire Philippine population were considered poor at the end of 2006, up from 30 percent in 2003 and back to 2000 level, the government's latest official poverty statistics showed.

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Globalization, technology, and inequality: It’s the policies, stupid

Friday, February 16, 2018

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma looks down as he speaks at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC11C8881F30

Africa in the news: Leadership changes, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wins Ibrahim prize, and Kenya’s credit rating is downgraded

Friday, February 16, 2018

Turkey and Transatlantic Relations

Edited by Sasha Toperich and Aylin Ünver Noi

2018

U.S. Senators' Susan Collins (R-ME) addresses reporters with fellow Senators' Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) after lawmakers struck a deal to reopen the federal government.

Congress: take a timeout from playing the political blame game

Alice M. Rivlin

Monday, February 12, 2018

A delegate and the Great Hall of the People, the venue of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, are reflected in a window of a bus, on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, November 14, 2012.

The Chinese Communist Party’s experiment with transparency

Jamie P. Horsley

Thursday, February 8, 2018

A NASA Earth Observatory handout released December 5, 2012 of a composite image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night, assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite's "day-night band" of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. REUTERS/NASA Earth Observatory/Handout (SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - GF2E8C51UIA01

Watch: Experts discuss an era of new geopolitics

Ryan Hass, Bruce Jones, Robert Kagan, Suzanne Maloney, Jung H. Pak, Alina Polyakova, and Thomas Wright

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Foresight Africa viewpoint – The G-20 Compact with Africa: African-driven programs

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Zhu Rongji on the Record

By Rongji Zhu

2018