Russians Are Unraveling Before Our Eyes
A wave of fresh humiliations has the Kremlin struggling to control the narrative.
Bola Tinubu turned Lagos into a great city. Can he transform all of Nigeria?
The U.S. is betting billions on its semiconductor push, but it needs more people for the factory floors.
The balance of power in Europe is changing—just as it always has.
The world’s second-largest economy has a historically unique economic status.
Despite a strong foothold during the Cold War, Washington has since fumbled on the continent.
India’s government wants to turn the war-torn region into a renewed tourist hot spot.
Blanket bans on gas finance stifle development, hurt climate goals, and reek of hypocrisy.
Greater ethnic diversity, debt burdens, and democratized politics have complicated Africa’s path to development.
Westerners should ask instead what kind of partnerships their own countries offer to the continent.
The world’s economic dynamism is shifting to the global south.
Poverty alleviation in the economically weakest parts of the world will require giving the poor a real seat at the table—which the World Bank has never done.
The development bank doesn’t have enough money to achieve its goals—unless it gets more creative with its balance sheet.
Taipei’s last diplomatic stand may well be in the Americas.
The organization’s next president will have to tackle a growing range of issues with a shrinking capital base.
Governments are almost endlessly prone to throwing good money after bad.
The scandal may rattle India’s elite just enough to jump-start long-neglected reforms.
The country’s hope lies in the example of a rapidly reforming China at the turn of the 1980s.
China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both.
Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy is a “shadow of its former self.”