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A made-in-China plan for world domination

Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower

The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back

The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor

The UN’s grim future 

Going rogue, decay or Trumpification

Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more

Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia

Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance

For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour

Ukraine has been trying to bring the war to Russia. More Russians are beginning to feel it

Mali-Related Sanctions

Mali-Related SanctionsTiffany.Hyatt@… Fri, 02/28/2020 - 09:50 Sign up for Mali-Related Sanctions e-mail updates. Frequen...

Global Economic Prospects: Fall 2016

Senior Fellow David J. Stockton presented the US and global economic outlook at the Peterson Institute’s semiannual Glob...

Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate

Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) discussed “Rethinking Trade and Reframing the Trade Debate” on September 27, 2016, at the...

Economic Situation in Brazil and Latin America

Arminio Fraga of Gávea Investments and Robert Zoellick, chairman of Goldman Sachs’ International Advisors, spoke at the ...

Swiss-EU Pragmatism on Immigration Will Have Limited Bearing on Brexit Negotiations

The emerging notion among Brexit optimists that the United Kingdom could use Switzerland as a template for negotiating n...

Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign

Yesterday, Marc Noland presented his research on the presidential candidates' trade policies that he co-authored with Sh...

Launch of Assessing Trade Agendas in the US Presidential Campaign

The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) presented a new PIIE Briefing, Assessing Trade Agendas in the ...

Vulnerability to Sanctions I: Park and Walsh

As the discussion shifts ineluctably towards sanctions in the wake of the fifth test, attention also naturally shifts to...

Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition II

Yesterday, I reviewed some of the most important developments surrounding the peninsula, starting with the North Korean ...

Brazil’s Post-Impeachment Economics

Financial markets’ renewed fondness for Brazil—the country’s stock market has rallied 60 percent this year—is hard to sq...

Slave to the Blog: August Catch-Up Edition I

No sooner do we go on vacation then the world goes to hell in a handbasket. More seriously, developments on the Korean p...

Gloomy Autumn in Store for Europe

Europe is about to experience a hectic start of the political season, with more problems on its hands than at any time i...

China's New Economic Frontier: Overcoming Obstacles to Continued Growth

China's economy is at a pivotal moment, as it faces both imminent and long-term challenges that may significantly hamper...

Brazil’s Economic Malaise Rekindled as Olympic Flame Goes Out

Monica de Bolle outlines the tough economic challenges facing Brazilian acting President Michel Temer now that the Olymp...

Evaluating the IMF’s Performance on Financial-Sector Aspects of the Euro Area Crisis

The Peterson Institute has posted The IMF’s Role in the Euro Area Crisis: Financial Sector Aspects on its website, and a...

B.R. Myers: North Korea’s Juche Myth I

I have never put much weight on ideological explanations of North Korea’s domestic or foreign behavior. To be sure, the ...

Defection, Labor Exports and Border Control

Revised August 2 3PM. An earlier version of this post reported that the UN staff from the Office of the High Commissione...

The Democratic Party Platform: the Asia Dimension

Last week, I looked at the Republican Party platform document, significant not for its substantive effect if Mr. Trump p...

The Republican Bankruptcy Illusion

There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not en...

Misunderstanding North Korea’s Celebrity Culture

For nearly a year I have been carrying around with me an essay by David Zeglen titled “It’s the Thought That Counts: Nor...

China’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path

A key component of China’s SOE reform strategy—mergers of the largest firms in the same industry—seems very unlikely to ...

The Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom

This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than ...

Slave to the Blog: The Will Rogers Edition

The American humorist famously observed, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Some folks internalize this adv...

US Exit From WTO Would Unravel Global Trade

In his latest attack on US trade policy, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has threatened to exit the 16...

The US Filed a WTO Dispute to Save Jobs—by Increasing Imports from China: Here’s Why

In the latest salvo against free trade, Donald Trump argued that the World Trade Organization is a disaster and fails to...

Summer Reading: Diamond, Plattner and Walker, Authoritarianism Goes Global

Last year, I wrote about the problem of “democracy promotion in reverse” and spotlighted a website managed by the Intern...

Economic and Political Freedoms Diverge in Eastern Europe

Political analysts often assume that economic and political freedoms go together. Increase property rights and the oppor...

The North Korean Economy Contracted Last Year. Maybe.

The Bank of Korea has released its annual North Korean GDP estimates, and the BOK has concluded that the North Korean ec...

Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate a...

Release of Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership for the World Trading System

The Peterson Institute for International Economics released the Policy Brief Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnersh...

A Slow Negotiation Might Help Achieve a Better Brexit Solution

What happens now to the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, after the Brexit referendum? It ...

Once Again, Sanctions Enforcement

In an earlier post, I talked about the qualitative evidence that North Korea is starting to experience distress, and not...

Brexit: What a Difference a Week Makes

Britain’s decision to part ways with the European Union in a referendum last week was a classic example of what former U...

US and Global Trade: Economic Fact and Political Fiction

Proponents of more open trade may have oversold its benefits during the 1990s heyday of commercial liberalization. Now t...