• Op-Ed

What Can They Buy? A Good Bit of Us.

• Moisés Naím
• April 27, 2008
• Washington Post

These days, Europeans are taking advantage of the cheap U.S. dollar to buy more than consumer electronics or real estate in the United States. They are also gobbling up all kinds of U.S. corporations -- a trend that will be far more permanent, consequential and politically charged than Europeans' widely noticed shopping sprees for gadgets or apartments.

• Op-Ed

Rearming the World

• Josh Kurlantzick
• April 27, 2008
• Boston Globe

Last summer, as Americans focused on the surge in Iraq, most ignored a military exercise with a potentially more far-reaching impact. In a remote location in the Ural Mountains, Russia, China, and several Central Asian nations gathered for a massive war game, ironically dubbed "Peace Mission 2007."

• Op-Ed

The End of the End of History

• Robert Kagan
• April 23, 2008
• The New Republic

A global competition is underway between democratic governments and autocratic governments. The great powers are increasingly choosing sides and identifying themselves with one camp or the other. This competition will become a dominant feature of the twenty-first-century world, with broad implications for the international system.

• Op-Ed

The Next McGovern?

• John Judis
• April 23, 2008
• The New Republic

• Event

The Global Challenge of Energy and Climate Change

• William Chandler
• April 22, 2008
• Washington, D.C.

Director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, William Chandler, shares his thoughts on some of the most pressing environmental issues facing the international community.

• Event

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny

• Misha Glenny, Ron Suskind, Mark Medish
• April 17, 2008
• Washington, D.C.

On April 17, 2008, the Carnegie Endowment hosted a discussion with authors Misha Glenny and Ron Suskind on the publication of Glenny’s new book McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld.

• Op-Ed

The Misperception Trap

• Rose Gottemoeller
• April 16, 2008
• International Herald Tribune

On my way out of Moscow on the day when George Bush and Vladimir Putin met for the last time in Sochi, Russian blogs were alight with complaints about how Putin had lost big at the NATO summit meeting in Bucharest the day before. As I flew across the ocean a few hours later, I sat next to a well-placed Washington operative on his way back from Bucharest. "Bush lost big at the summit," he said."

• Op-Ed

Woe is He

• John Judis
• April 15, 2008
• The New Republic

To win in November, a Democratic presidential candidate has to carry most of the industrial heartland states that stretch from Pennsylvania to Missouri. That becomes even more imperative if a Democrat can't carry Florida--and because of his relative weakness in South Florida, Obama is unlikely to do so against McCain. Ruy Teixeira and I have calculated that in the heartland states, a Democratic presidential candidate has to win from 45 to 48 percent of the white working class vote. In some states, like West Virginia and Kentucky, the percentage is well over a majority.

• Op-Ed

What Power Looks Like

• David Rothkopf
• April 14, 2008
• Newsweek

The aftermath of recent financial crises, such as the U.S. housing slump and near-collapse of Bear Sterns, underscores the concentration of power among a select, insular group of global elites, unchecked by any international mechanism. An often unregulated “superclass” of 6,000 individuals governs not only business and finance, but politics, the arts, the non-profit world, and other sectors.

• Op-Ed

25 Ways to Take the Heat Off

• William Chandler
• April 11, 2008
• The Chicago Tribune

Polls show that most Americans are concerned about climate change. Effectively stemming climate change means persuading individuals to take responsibility for cutting their emissions.