
Europe can pursue a more interests-based and assertive engagement with both China and India that finds the right mix of realism and self-confidence to make the most of its comparative advantages.

Washington needs to protect its position of impartiality in the South China Sea and avoid singling out Chinese behavior for criticism.

Uzbek officials have deep and valuable insights into Afghanistan. Washington would do well to pay attention.

The U.S. election, whatever the outcome, will not eliminate the need for both parties to compromise in order to make meaningful headway on the tough economic challenges facing the country.

Real reform in Morocco remains more hope than reality. The king is firmly in control, and the only group capable of pressuring the monarchy is uninterested in politics.

If the United States wants to keep the promise it made in 2009 to help build a stable, accountable, and democratic Pakistan, it must significantly alter its current approach.

The dramatic economic progress Indonesia has made in recent decades is threatened by the risk of renewed protectionism.

China's economy is slowing, but this is a good sign. As China's growth model becomes more consumer spending-driven, growth will be more sustainable. Structural reforms will also be somewhat easier to implement.

Traditional urban community life still has a profound effect on the Muslim experience in India.

Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, progress on promoting environmentally responsible economic growth remains disappointingly limited.

As the situation in Syria reaches a head, all actors in the conflict, including Russia, are deeply wound up in the crisis. And with time, challenges will only increase.

Differences between the U.S. and eurozone monetary unions go a long way towards accounting for how well or badly each has adjusted in the aftermath of large housing bubbles and severe financial crisis.

While the Trans-Pacific Partnership should be recognized and applauded for what it will be, it is problematic that the partnership does not include China, the world’s second-largest economy and largest exporter and manufacturer.

As India comes to play a more vocal role in South and East Asia, China must adapt and account for the diplomatic interests of this new regional player.

Deteriorating economic conditions and high public expectations are leading Arab governments to prioritize economic issues. This shift in focus provides the international community with an opportunity to partner with the Arab world.

Japan's experience at the forefront of demographic change can provide lessons to other advanced industrialized economies in search of the appropriate policy response to aging societies.

A political transition, rather than regime change, may be the only chance for international cooperation on Syria.

Libya's parliamentary election process has been a remarkable achievement in a country devoid of participatory politics for nearly half a century, despite the worrying presence of armed militias throughout the country.

Services and commodities have fueled Indonesia's recent growth, but only manufacturing can create high quality jobs and help the country escape the middle-income trap.

The fact that Morsi’s victory was allowed to stand marks a major change in Egypt, but it is only one step in a process of transformation that will take time, be punctuated by many acrimonious battles, and in the end may not lead to democracy