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April 23, 2012

Conflict Prevention
Understanding Illicit Networks

We all know that, in recent decades, businesses have internationalized their operations like never before, but a less well-known result of globalization is that transnational criminal enterprises hav…

Police officers look on as a road roller is used to destroy confiscated pornographic DVDs and pirated publications in Xi'an
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

December 31, 2019

Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2019

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

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Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 8, 2015

Economics
Measuring Opportunities for Digital Payments: The Global Findex 2014

Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is by Leora Klapper, lead economist …

Dhaka-ATM
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

August 20, 2013

Decision Time for the Global Economy

Milan – In the dog days of summer, Milan is quieter than many European cities. The locals are away, and, unlike Paris or Rome, tourists do not take their place. Here and elsewhere, people, businesses…

A construction worker looks at the Pudong financial district in Shanghai (Carlos Barria/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

May 17, 2016

Asia
New Results From Bangladesh on How to Delay Child Marriage

Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is authored by Sajeda Amin, wh…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

July 3, 2013

Trade
The U.S.-EU Spying Fiasco: Why Commercial Espionage is a Bad Idea for the United States

When I was a young reporter in 1993 covering the final days of the Uruguay Round world trade negotiations in Geneva, I got a strange phone call in my hotel room from one of the lobbyists for a big U…

Security cameras near the main entrance of the European Union Council building in Brussels (Francois Lenoir/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America