61 Results for:
Filters

January 3, 2020

Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: The Killing of Qasem Soleimani

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: the U.S. drone strike that killed an Iranian general, the wisdom of Joe Biden’s Iraq vote, and for…

Demonstrators hold a picture of Qassim Suleimani as they protest his assassination by the United States in Tehran, Iran, on January 3. Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency via Reuters.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 7, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
African Economies: Growing Quickly But Transforming Slowly

This is a guest post by Diptesh Soni. Diptesh is a master’s degree candidate at the Columbia University School of International Public Affairs (SIPA) studying economic and political development. You …

Niger Mine
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 17, 2017

China
Have the Economic Constraints on China’s Geostrategic Ambitions Diminished?

The Council on Foreign Relations’ Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies has just put out a new discussion paper by Willian Norris on an important topic: how China’s economic position shapes its fo…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

September 30, 2008

Financial Markets
A new reason to be bullish on America: It is (almost) Sweden

A Merrill Lynch strategist seems to have come up with a new reason to buy stocks: The US isn’t far from adopting the “Swedish” approach to managing a financial crisis – and that didn’t turn out to …

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

March 7, 2006

Capital Flows
It doesn’t really matter (if the oil exporters started to stash their petrodollars in Asia)

It doesn't really matter (if the oil exporters suddenly dump their savings in Asia)I suspect Kevin Drum is right: Dubai Ports World will not, in the end, take over the US operations of P&O.    Dubai …

chart
Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money