Recent YaleGlobal Articles

Many in the world point to the need for mechanisms to monitor and control globalization, particularly after a decade when debt crises in one country spread quickly around the globe. Yet as economic interdependence continues to build, governance is not keeping pace. Ernesto Zedillo is director of...

Many critics point to globalization, its swirling influences over worldwide connections through trade, technology and communications, as a culprit behind growing inequality. Yet Pranab Bardhan, economist with the University of California, Berkeley, points out that the connections deliver both...

China has installed a new leadership team, but no one should hold his breath waiting for dramatic reforms, suggests China scholar David Shambaugh. China’s leaders understand the challenges of corruption, slowing growth, ethnic discontent, strained relations with neighbor states and trade partners,...

China has long insisted its goal is a peaceful rise, but Asia’s largest economy has ruffled the feathers of close neighbors along the way. Hu Jintao, outgoing president, bears some responsibility, suggests Stein Tønnesson of the East Asian Peace program, University of Uppsala. Assertive language,...

President Barack Obama will be the first US president to visit Burma, nestled between India and China, since renamed by its government as Myanmar, as well as Cambodia. The tour includes his attendance at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with also a stop in Thailand. The trip emphasizes...

President Barack Obama has won the hard fought battle for a second term. But he has no time to rest or celebrate. The president and US politicians must hurry to put finances in order, warns economist David Dapice. Congress failing to agree on raising taxes or cut spending invoked a deus ex machina...

Scotland, Catalonia, Flanders and other regions in Europe mull breaking away from their respective nation-states, but that doesn’t necessarily signal an insular outlook. Instead, Scotland is opening offices in Washington and Brussels, nurturing ties and exploring dissociating from British...

Every decade, China’s Communist Party undergoes a leadership transition. The Brookings Institution estimates that about 70 percent of the members of three leading institutions - the Politburo Standing Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission – will be replaced, marking the...

China aims to be more than an assembly line. The government is actively rebalancing its economy to exit industries dependent on raw materials and labor, and that provides great opportunity for China’s neighbors in two ways, explains Deepak Gopinath, global markets director for Trusted Sources, an...