Sebastian Mallaby considers how economic forecasters should adapt their methods to reflect today's high levels of policy uncertainty.

Charles A. Kupchan argues that the twenty-first century will witness a global power transition as China, India, Brazil, and other rising states challenge Western dominance.

Last winter, a wave of mass demonstrations suddenly broke the surface calm of Russian politics.

With its commandments and parables, its kings and its prophets, the Hebrew Bible has served as a reference point for Western politics for centuries. Almost every kind of political movement, it seems, has drawn its own message from the text.

Unlike Germany, France under the leadership of François Hollande has failed to articulate a long-term vision for Europe, says the Peterson Institute's Jacob Funk Kirkegaard.

This report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.

Nancy Brinker, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Susan G. Komen for the Cure interviews Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Janos Martonyi on the state of the European Union today.

This CFR Issue Tracker looks at the United States' relationship with Russia and presidential candidates' stances on the issue.

An intensifying anti-Assad stance has disrupted Turkey's pragmatic regional policy and aroused concerns at home that it is on a war footing, says expert Steven Heydemann.

According to a secret legal opinion for European Union finance ministers, a plan to create a single eurozone banking supervisor is illegal.

The EU's Nobel Peace Prize selection comes as the bloc struggles to resolve its debt crisis. Nevertheless, the EU represents one of the great peacemaking accomplishments of the modern era.

Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, whose party won last week's parliamentary elections in Georgia, will forge a foreign policy based on pragmatism, not ideology, says RFE/RL's Elizabeth Fuller.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is facing the question of finding a middle ground between confrontation and capitulation with Russia.

As the center of the eurozone debt crisis shifts to Spain, it could signify a potentially decisive phase in the EU's management of the crisis, says economist Megan Greene.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti discusses the looming challenges of the economic crisis in Europe and the future of the eurozone.

Italian prime minister Mario Monti discusses his tenure in office and his country's participation in the eurozone.

The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics is presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Italian prime minister Mario Monti discusses his tenure in office and his country's participation in the eurozone.

The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics is presented by the Corporate Program and the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has asserted that Russia is America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe;" a claim that has been heavily criticized, but may still be true.

CFR's James M. Lindsay reflects on the signing of the Munich Agreement on September 30, 1938 and how the United States can apply the lesson learned to potential threats in the world today.

Reuters details the negotiations that led from ECB President Mario Draghi's late-July speech to his recent announcement that the ECB stood ready to buy "unlimited" amounts of bonds by the most troubled euro members.