Soon, travelers worldwide will have a chance to contribute to the global fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis whenever they purchase airline tickets.

The "green revolution" dramatically boosted crop yields throughout the world, but it also bred overconfidence and complacency.

A series of looming demographic trends will greatly affect international security in the twenty-first century.

Efforts to provide the world's women with economic and political power are more than just a worthy moral crusade: they represent perhaps the best strategy for pursuing development and stability across the globe.

Turkey hopes to be a global power, but it has not yet become even the regional player that the ruling AKP declares it to be.

Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story.

Religion and modernity were never expected to go hand in hand, and for centuries they coexisted uncomfortably.

Hysteria over bloodshed in Mexico clouds the real challenge: the rising violence is a product of democratization -- and the only real solution is to continue strengthening Mexican democracy.

Hunger remains one of world's gravest humanitarian problems, but the United States has failed to prioritize food aid and agricultural development.

The United States' unique ability to capitalize on connectivity will make the twenty-first century an American century.

Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.

The golden age of globalization is over due to slower, costlier, and less certain transportation. In retrospect, Americans may lament too little globalization, not too much.

The key to a successful foreign policy in Latin America will be focusing on four critical issues -- Cuba, immigration, trade, and the "two lefts."

Critics refute Muller's assumptions about ethnic conflict; Muller responds.

Failure to plan for predictable problems has turned China's coming-out party into an embarrassment.

Why ethnic nationalism will drive global politics for generations.

The former chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly argues that despite Hugo Chavez's pledge to fight poverty, the Venezuelan president's economic policies have hurt the poor most of all.

How the Danish model of social democracy offers important lessons for governments confronting the dilemmas of globalization.

The United States should recognize that religious freedom is vital not only to liberty and stability abroad but also to U.S. national security.

The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region's birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe's elderly are exceptionally healthy. That means they could be more productive for longer than their predecessors were. If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region's next great economic asset.