Expert Sitings

Ángel Cabrera is dean of Madrid's Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe's leading business schools (www.ie.edu).  

joi.ito.com

Technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist Joichi Ito writes one of the world’s most popular Web logs, or "blogs." Ito’s blog helps me track emerging trends and ideas in global affairs by linking to news stories, articles, and other blogs around the world on subjects ranging from culture to technology.

creativecommons.org

Founded in 2001, Creative Commons advocates reasonable, flexible copyright laws. The organization hopes to unlock the creative capacity of the Internet by working with writers, musicians, photographers, and professors to make some of their original work free for public use, while still protecting it from exploitation.

ocw.mit.edu

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) OpenCourseWare initiative surprised the world by making 500 MIT courses freely available on the Web last September. Many in the higher education business thought of e-learning as just a new-age, revenue-generating manna. But it might also create a universal collection of knowledge that could benefit humanity.

www.iie.org

The Institute of International Education (IIE) is, among other things, the administrator of the Fulbright Scholarship program, and its Web site is the best resource available on the latest trends and news in global education.

www.socialedge.org

Jeff Skoll, the first president of eBay, created Social Edge. It is an Internet forum where people involved in social entrepreneurship can exchange information and learn how individuals with ideas and energy are changing the world.

More from Foreign Policy

Vladimir Putin speaks during the Preliminary Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at The Konstantin Palace on July 25, 2015 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Vladimir Putin speaks during the Preliminary Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia at The Konstantin Palace on July 25, 2015 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

What Putin Got Right

The Russian president got many things wrong about invading Ukraine—but not everything.

Dmitry Medvedev (center in the group of officials), an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is now deputy chairman of the country's security council, visits the Omsktransmash (Omsk transport machine factory) in the southern Siberian city of Omsk.
Dmitry Medvedev (center in the group of officials), an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is now deputy chairman of the country's security council, visits the Omsktransmash (Omsk transport machine factory) in the southern Siberian city of Omsk.

Russia Has Already Lost in the Long Run

Even if Moscow holds onto territory, the war has wrecked its future.

Sri Lankan construction workers along a road in Colombo.
Sri Lankan construction workers along a road in Colombo.

China’s Belt and Road to Nowhere

Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy is a “shadow of its former self.”

Dalton speaks while sitting at a table alongside other U.S. officials.
Dalton speaks while sitting at a table alongside other U.S. officials.

The U.S. Overreacted to the Chinese Spy Balloon. That Scares Me.

So unused to being challenged, the United States has become so filled with anxiety over China that sober responses are becoming nearly impossible.