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Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia signed a treaty on the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) on May 29. While Russia mainly hopes to increase its political clout, all three presidents realize how many difficulties they will have to overcome.
Former President B.J. Habibie led Indonesia’s democratization process beginning in 1998, making bold reforms toward political openness and decentralization. Thanks in part to his efforts, Indonesia is emerging as one of Asia’s foremost democracies and rising powers.
The United States and the EU are negotiating a transatlantic trade deal that could be difficult to multilateralize. Third countries should engage now to avoid that danger later.
A number of complex questions remain unresolved as negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program enter their final stage. The main question is whether the cooperation between Russia and the West would continue at the previous levels in the midst of the crisis in Ukraine.
President Obama’s recent visit to Asia underscored the importance of the U.S.-China relationship and the challenge of managing it in the context of increasing interdependence, but also tension and mistrust.
In many countries, wealth grows more as a result of thievery and malfeasance than as a consequence of the returns on capital invested by elites.
The secretive nature of the gas agreement between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp may show that the contract contains something the Russian negotiators could not be proud of in the limelight of Russian public opinion.
Rapid expansion of Chinese companies into international markets raises questions about the long-term effects of Chinese investment on domestic industries in Europe and the United States.
China’s growth rate continues to slide. Many observers see its surging debt and housing indicators as signaling an imminent financial crisis and the inevitability of a hard landing. How likely is this to occur, and can the new leadership engineer a more sustainable growth path?
India’s recent election was the longest and most expensive general election in the history of the country.
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