What Remains: On the European Union
This essay is adapted from Mark Mazower’s Governing the World: The History of an Idea, coming this month from the Penguin Press. Read Here – The Nation
Author: lookingbeyondborders
Moving in the Wrong Direction: The United States and the Global Competitiveness Report
The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report is the closest thing that exists to a Michelin Guide for national economies. And in a world where businesses looking to establish or expand are perfectly free to choose, say Germany over Canada or Vietnam over China, the report is a helpful cheat sheet. Read Here – http://www.cfr.org Read […]
Mitt Romney Doesn’t Scare Billionaires in China: Bloomberg’s William Pesek
China tends to like Republicans in the White House because it’s clear what they want: free trade, low taxes and strong national security. Democrats are more capricious and delve into messy issues like human rights and the environment. In the case of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, though, you would be forgiven for thinking officials in Beijing […]
The Myanmar Economy: Tough Choices
In its first 63 years as an independent nation, Myanmar (Burma) went from being Southeast Asia’s brightest hope (in 1948) to its biggest embarrassment, through three distinct periods of uninspired or misguided governance, says Lex Reiffel. Read Here – Brookings
Obama’s Clinical, Calculated Appeal
What Obama needed to deliver at this convention was not soaring rhetoric, but a plausible case for why Americans should grant him another term—and how, if they do so, the next four years would differ from the last four, write Joshua Green in Businessweek. Read Here – Businessweek
U.S. Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s Swing Through Asia Has Been Marked By A Revelation In Beijing: The Source Of All China’s Problems With Its Neighbors Is The United States.
A Xinhuaeditorial paints the United States as a “sneaky trouble maker sitting behind some nations in the region and pulling strings.” In the Global Times, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences scholar Ni Feng states that the U.S. pivot is “stirring up tensions between China and its neighbors”; while Renmin University scholar Jin Canrong argues that Washington aims to “dominate the region’s […]
Countries Across Asia Are Building Welfare States—With A Chance To Learn From The West’s Mistakes
ASIA’S economies have long wowed the world with their dynamism. Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history. But as they become more affluent, the region’s citizens want more from their governments. Across the continent pressure is growing for […]
Eighty Percent of U.S. Asia Policy Is Just Showing Up
With China throwing its weight around the South China Sea, and snapping at Japan for its plans to buy disputed islands, the waters of the Pacific are looking a little choppy these days. Time for a little high-level diplomacy, you might think — something that not only eases tensions but also refocuses the nations of the Asia-Pacific […]
Russia, Faced With A Debt Crisis In Its Top Trading Partner, Is Pivoting East For The Trade And Investment President Vladimir Putin Needs To Meet The Economic Targets He Set For His Third Term, Says Bloomberg
The world’s largest energy exporter plans to construct an oil refinery on the Pacific coast and may send grain eastward asToyota Motor Corp. (7203) and Mazda Motor Corp. (7261) consider building Russian plants. The government has spent more than $20 billion to showcase Vladivostok, 4,000 miles east of Moscow, as leaders gather for this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation […]
Foreign Policy Tells Us “Why 2012 Is A Great Year To Be In The Arms Business”
In what seems an odd juxtaposition, global military spending is slowing down while the global trade in weapons is on the rise. The data are clear about these trends. For the first time in 14 years, global military spending did not increase last year, part of an overall slowdown in global military spending that began in […]
