Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Free-trade negotiations are crashing, one after another, but at the same time, free trade itself is booming. Efforts to liberalize trade through multilateral negotiations have stalled. In many countries, free-trade agreements are now politically radioactive.
Governments are funding and controlling nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), often stealthily. They have become the tool of choice for undemocratic governments to manage their domestic politics while appearing democratic.
Intellectual property theft has a serious impact on America's place in the global economy. Moisés Naím testified before the House Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance to discuss strategies for intellectual property rights enforcement.
The United States government is suffering from a curious learning disability when it comes to Iraq. As it begins the painful process of disengaging from Iraq, the U.S. is at risk of repeating the mistakes it made going into the war.
A country's borders should not be confused with those familiar dotted lines drawn on some musty old map of nation-states. In an era of mass migration, globalization and instant communication, a map reflecting the world's true boundaries would be a crosscutting, high-tech and multidimensional affair.
Behind the ornate institutional façade of Argentina's government lies a weak state that cannot adequately perform tasks that are indispensable to ensuring economic stability, let alone success. Its economic institutions were woefully inadequate. Ignoring this reality proved to be one of the many fatal mistakes that led to the crisis.
