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June 14, 2006

Financial Markets
The shifting balance of oil power

The Wall Street Journal has noticed that the state is no longer in retreat from the commanding heights of the global economy.  The basic pattern of capital flows is now set by central banks, not priv…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

June 26, 2012

International Organizations
How Transnational Crime Hinders Development—and What to Do About It

Today, the Internationalist is writing from the floor of the United Nations in New York, where Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedot…

A worker carries charcoal through a slashed and burned area in eastern Sierra Leone
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

June 24, 2011

International Organizations
Half-Baked: The UN’s Annual Global Drug Report

Drug addicts in Managua, Nicaragua (Oswaldo Rivas/ Courtesy Reuters). On Thursday, the United Nations launched its annual World Drug Report. This year’s report comes four decades after President Ric…

Half-Baked: The UN’s Annual Global Drug Report
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

August 15, 2011

Defense and Security
U.S. National Security Strategy: Rhetoric and Reality

The seal of the President of the United States is seen on the wall of one of the rooms of the newly renovated White House Situation Room complex during a tour given to news photographers in Washingto…

U.S. National Security Strategy: Rhetoric and Reality
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

October 18, 2011

International Organizations
U.S. Sovereignty at Bay? Separating Fact and Fiction

People sign a huge copy of U.S. Constitution at an "Occupation of Washington" march camp in Washington, October 10, 2011. (Courtesy Reuters/Yuri Gripas) In a July 4 post, The Internationalist predic…

U.S. Sovereignty at Bay? Separating Fact and Fiction
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist