The Globalist

Why is positive political change in China less likely to come from outside pressure than from continued economic growth?

Why are Europe’s export industries happy about rising prices and domestic demand in China?

Why is the U.S.-EU relationship by far the most important bilateral partnership in the world?

Why will Western economies have to wage an increasingly intense competition with the rest of the world for resources and capital?

What does Singapore’s finance minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, think about the future of the global economy?

How are the realities of globalization forcing the United States to adopt a new foreign policy?

Is Gordon Brown a credible candidate to lead the IMF in the future?

Does the embrace of American exceptionalism nix the prospect of new economic thinking emerging from the United States?

Why is Chinese artist Ai Weiwei an outspoken critic of China’s government?

Why are oil prices going to stay high — and climb higher?