China is on track to become the world’s largest economy, and the Chinese welcome the milestone, anticipating greater influence over world affairs. But economic size does not automatically translate into greater or less power and influence, warns Richard Bush, China expert with the Brookings...
US workers and politicians rail about jobs lost to Asia. But Asian-US interactions in education, immigration, investment, tourism and trade produce US jobs and income, explains Satu Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington. He created Asia Matters for America, an online map that...
The global economy is expected to triple in size by the year 2050, and much of the growth will come from emerging economies, which were viewed not long ago as impoverished and backward. This YaleGlobal series examines the consequences of the changing global economic order. While developing nations...
Rapid growth of the emerging economies is expected to introduce adjustments in global governance. But global power shifts ever so slowly even as the combined GDP of the top seven emerging economies is slated to overtake the top seven developed economies in the near future. Cooperation over global...
Poorer nations drive the world’s population growth while developed nations with aging populations are in need of young labor. Strategic policies on immigration can fill the gaps, but social, economic and diplomatic challenges emerge when the immigrants are treated as less than equal partners. With...
Waves of desperate migrants cross the Mediterranean, fleeing the repression, poverty and war gripping North Africa. Immense inequalities in living standards between the two zones draw migrants to Europe: Global media display stark contrasts between wealthy and poor, and internet sites lay out...
Turks head to the polls on June 12th, and are expected to approve a third consecutive single-party government led by popular Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But consolidation of power and his party’s overconfidence could hamper democratization and reforms. The government has failed to display...
土耳其民众正翘首以盼6月12日的大选。据预计，选民将会支持他们广为拥戴的总理雷杰普•塔伊普•埃尔多安（Recep Tayyip Erdoğan）领导的一党执政政府在此次议会选举中赢得第三次连任。然而，权力的高度集中和执政党的过分自信可能会妨碍民主化和各项改革的进程。欧洲改革中心（Centre for European Reform） 的卡亭卡•巴利斯奇 （Katinka Barysch）称，现任政府对土耳其边境面临的种种压力一味地置之不理，未能发挥地区领头羊的作用，有损于土耳其与其邻国的关系。作为一个生机勃发的民主国家，土耳其拥有自由选举制度，该国妇女被赋予了更多的权利，...
Street protests, along with a nod from the US, quickly led to the fall of Egypt's long-time ruler. Syrian streets have been the stage for protests and violent clashes since late January, too, but desire for stability from both friends and foes could ensure that Assad stays in power, warns...
Pakistan's conflicting policy of fighting Al Qaeda while supporting Islamist militants against India has boomeranged spectacularly. Former intelligence official Bruce Riedel, now senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Brookings Institution, discounts the notion that...
No nation can successfully block out the physical or intangible cross-border challenges imposed by others. Immigrants, disease, radiation, trade in natural resources or radical ideas like democracy leap and bound across borders. With global interconnectedness in so many areas, governance at the...
