World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- Searching for Free Markets in Latin America José Enrique Idler 12/13/2006
- Leaders may ignore reality, but open trade is both desirable and necessary for the region.
- Charting the Story of a Great Sea Battle Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky 12/06/2006
- America's last great victory at sea could have been very different.
- Why the German Left Is Better for Free Markets than the Right Jurgen Reinhoudt 12/06/2006
- Germany leads the crowd when it comes to political inversions. The nominal German left has shown that it can be a remarkable force for free-market reforms, having led such reforms with verve between 1998 and 2005. The German right, by contrast, far from embarking on more free-market reforms since it entered a "Grand Coalition" government with the left in November 2005, has recently voted to turn back some of the far-reaching free-market reforms initiated by the left between 1998 and 2005 and shows no signs of re-considering course.
- In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship Reed Hundt 12/05/2006
- Looking East Toward the Dawn
- Hungary's Nostalgia for a Revolution Matt Perlman 12/04/2006
- Recent riots in the country owe more to a national sense of history than to economic circumstances.
- The Road to Hell? Glenn Goldsmith 12/04/2006
- The World Bank and IMF, for all their faults, are not that bad.
- The Puzzle of Parisian Partisanship Jurgen Reinhoudt 11/30/2006
- Of all large European nations, France is the country where political leaders are most vocally opposed to capitalism and globalization--at least in theory.
- Political Vertigo in the United Kingdom Jurgen Reinhoudt 11/24/2006
- What do "Left" and "Right" still mean in British politics?
- China's New Scramble for Africa Jennifer Brea 11/22/2006
- The Chinese are looking at Africa as a business opportunity, not a charity case. America should pay attention.
- Rwanda Redux Mauro De Lorenzo 11/21/2006
- A decade after the genocide, Rwanda, with help from two Chicago financiers, has been spreading the idea that it’s a good place to do business, not just a place for do-gooders to come help. Now, it’s the most improved country in Africa.