World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- Enabling Zimbabwe’s Dictator Roger Bate 06/24/2008
- Robert Mugabe’s apologists—including the former Mozambican president—are helping to keep alive his odious regime.
- A Simple Case of Supply and Demand? Robert Bryce 06/03/2008
- The oil market has insufficient spare production capacity and too many buyers. That’s helping drive prices higher.
- Will Oil Really Hit $200 a Barrel? Desmond Lachman 05/30/2008
- Oil prices cannot keep rising forever, despite what many of today’s market participants seem to think.
- Weak Trade Week Philip I. Levy 05/28/2008
- The number of U.S. politicians willing to speak clearly and forthrightly about free trade is depressingly small.
- Map Quest Victor Davis Hanson 05/22/2008
- A scramble is underway to redraw boundaries, from the Balkans to the Arctic. What does it all mean?
- The Sovereigns Are Coming! Daniel Drezner 05/15/2008
- Foreign governments are investing large sums of money in American companies. Should we be scared?
- Botswana and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Countries Marian L. Tupy 05/14/2008
- Since gaining independence, one has become a success while the other has become a dismal failure. What explains that?
- Playing for Keeps: A Symposium THE AMERICAN 05/09/2008
- Will the Beijing Olympics ultimately help or hurt the cause of freedom in China? THE AMERICAN asked eight experts.
- The Fast-Track Trade War Claude Barfield 05/07/2008
- No matter how our allies react to the Colombia spat, the politics of FTA passage may have been permanently changed.
- India vs. the WTO Roger Bate 05/01/2008
- New Delhi has a dodgy record on safeguarding intellectual property rights. Here’s how it could improve.