The Internal Logic of China’s Political Development
China, as we all know, has gone through an extraordinary economic transformation over the last 30 years. This transformation has remade the face of coastal China. It’s now spilling over into the...
View ArticlePascal Lamy: Whither Globalization?
Where is globalization headed? This is probably the central question of our time. As globalization transforms the world — creating new wealth, new innovations, new opportunities, new dreams — it is...
View ArticleThe Global Governance Deficit: The Theater of the Absurd
The most famous play by Luigi Pirandello, the late 19th/early 20th century Italian surrealist author and 1934 Nobel Prize Laureate, is entitled “Six Characters in Search of an Author.” I read it many...
View ArticleBon Voyage, World Bank!
The global rise in prosperity and personal freedoms over the past 65 years has been an immense human achievement despite a string of horrible regional conflicts and pockets of terrible suffering. Three...
View ArticleWill Europe Rise to the Occasion?
Jeffrey Brown, PBS correspondent: Stephan, how important do you think the German vote was, and why? Stephan Richter, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Globalist: I think it was very important. It...
View ArticleShorting Greece — Or the World?
Giorgos Papandreou, Greece’s prime minister since October 2009, is the youngest member of a political dynasty that has so far produced three prime ministers in as many generations. “George” was born in...
View ArticleBridging the 21st Century’s North-South Divide
The fact we have entered a new year of the 21st century with a distinct lack of euphoria is hardly surprising. The global mood has not really recovered since the 2008 global recession, 2011 was a quite...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to African Power
Infant mortality in oil rich Nigeria is three times as great as in one of the world’s very poorest countries, Bangladesh. Indeed, social indicators in many of the sub-Sahara African countries endowed...
View ArticleThe Transatlantic Battle Against Tax Evasion
Atlanticists have been looking far and wide for ways to resuscitate the transatlantic relationship and give it a much-needed energy boost. They have looked at ganging up against China or at coalescing...
View ArticleGlobal Cooperation Buckling Under Past Successes
The 2008-2009 financial crisis was arguably the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. Why, then, has regulatory reform in key countries and at the global level been so piecemeal?...
View ArticleDilma Rousseff on Governing Brazil
By Mark S. LangevinWhat is the new President of Brazil's vision for her country?Given your past, what is it like becoming a public figure, almost a celebrity? “It took a while to understand exactly how...
View ArticleGetting Asia on the Global Stage
By Simon S. C. TayWhy must Asians demand that global institutions be more open to their participation, ideas and leadership?In the face of the global crisis, Asians have continued to focus on efforts...
View ArticleEurope’s Debt Crisis: The Most Difficult Decisions Are Ahead
By Dan SteinbockWhy is the euro area's debt crisis only beginning — and how can it be overcome?Chancellor Angela Merkel and I will never let the euro down, never,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the...
View ArticleFrom “Made in the USA” to “Made in China”
By Joseph QuinlanWhy will Western economies have to wage an increasingly intense competition with the rest of the world for resources and capital?Middle-class consumers in the developing nations —...
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Nigeria: An Incentive for South Africa
By Ellis MnyanduBigger GDPs for other countries in Africa are not a zero-sum game.That Nigeria is now Africa’s largest economy is the best news that South Africa could have hoped for. This milestone...
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The Global Trade Impasse: The Chinese Leadership Conundrum
By Jean-Pierre LehmannChina’s time to lead the WTO has come.Following the fiasco of the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle in 1999 then Director General Mike Moore expressed the anxiety that the WTO...
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BRICS: Toward a Rio Consensus
By Kevin P. GallagherThe BRICS countries set out to overcome Western domination and the legacy of the “Washington Consensus.”Conveniently scheduled at the end of the World Cup, leaders of the BRICS...
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South Africa: Cry, the Beloved Country
By Ellis MnyanduWhat took South Africa from 1994 to 2014 will not take it to 2034.When renowned author Alan Paton penned the words – “Cry, the Beloved Country” – he probably did not imagine that in...
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The Hard Facts of Global Corruption
By Frank VoglAction rarely follows rhetoric when it comes to global corruption. It takes two to tango to rob national treasuries and undermine global commerce: the government officials and politicians...
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The Globalist’s Top 10 Features on India
By The GlobalistWhat are India's biggest challenges?[ 1 ] Visiting India? Battling a Kafkaesque Bureaucracy By Stephan Richter | Reflections on the amazing difficulties of obtaining a visa to India....
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