What can a speech on economic statecraft accomplish?
At 8:30 this morning U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will give "a major address on the role of economics in our foreign policy." This speech is the culmination of a series of Clinton...
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Does the Wall Street Journal provide an accurate portrayal of Occupy Wall...
Centrist pollster Douglas Schoen has an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal that reports on some polling his firm did of the Occupy Wall Street protestors: The protesters have a distinct ideology and...
View ArticleThe fifth dimension of global political economy
[NOTE: the following reads much better if you read it using the voice of Rod Serling!--ed.] There's a subtle art to reading broadsheet American journalism. Reporters strain for objectivity, and in...
View ArticleThe hard constraint on taking Occupy Wall Street seriously
You humble blogger has been skeptical but not dismissive of the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon. My general assessment was that it did reflect ongoing frustrations about trendlines in the American and...
View ArticleDamn Bill Keller and the trenchant column he rode in on!
Bill Keller has moved on from the esteemed position of New York Times executive editor to the very vulnerable position of New York Times Op-ed Columnist Ripe for Mockery. Alas, it's hard to mock...
View ArticleNothing to see here... just the collapse of the euro... and maybe the entire...
Hey, remember my last bloggingheads, when I went to the 1930s analogy to describe the current problems in the global political economy? Well, that was a few days ago, and my, how things have changed...
View ArticleMy super-helpful, likely-painfully obvious-travel tips blog!!
Your humble blogger has been on an airplane twice in the past week on separate trips -- which, over the past year, was a depressingly common occurrence. Indeed, since December 2010, I've been to...
View ArticleMy last travel-themed post of the year. Really. Honest.
After a year of nearly-nonstop travel, I've flown airlines ranging from American to SATA, to airports as large as Shanghai's Pudong International Airport and as small as Ithaca's Tompkins Regional...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2011 Albies!!
With 2011 down to a few hours, it's now safe to announce the 2011 Albies -- named in honor of noted political economist Albert O. Hirschman. The Albies are awarded to the best writing in global...
View ArticleThe trouble with authoritarian joint energy ventures....
I've been reading a raft of books recently arguing that authoritarian capitalism is a more sustainable model than us in the West appreciate. According to this meme, entities like sovereign wealth...
View ArticleYour Rorschach test for global economic governance
Annie Lowrey ably summarizes the outcomes of spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank for the New York Times. Here are her first two paragraphs: Meetings of finance ministers and central bankers here...
View ArticleWhy Sino-American interdependence will give me a splitting headache for the...
I should be really pleased with Thomas Friedman's column today. Entitled "In MItt's World," Friedman pens a substantive column criticizing Romney's foreign policy rhetoric to date and wishing that...
View ArticleDrezner gets results from the Defense Department!!
Hey, remember when I said that China's debt holdings did not pose a serious threat to the United States? And remember when I banged my head against the desk because VerySerious People continue to...
View ArticleMarc Ambinder beats me to the punch
I was trying to cogitate a post on the attacks in Cairo and Benghhazi yesterday inspired by this 13-minute piece of tripe that was consistent with what I've said before about stupid speech acts and the...
View ArticleSome perspecive sauce for the United States
Your humble blogger was watching CNN late last night after the House of Representatives passed the fiscal cliff compromise, and was struck by the anchor's complete and total disdain for what had just...
View ArticleThe irony of a transatlantic free trade deal
Walter Russell Mead shares my enthusiasm for the prospect of a transatlantic trade deal, though I fear he goes a bit overboard in his post: The mobilization towards an agreement reflects the changing...
View Article"Good enough" global governance, Pirates 0
To follow up with another data point suggesting that we're living in a world of "good enough" global governance, let's take a look at piracy on the high seas , shall we? You might recall that in 2009...
View ArticleWhoops there goes another China myth....
One of this blog's annoying tics persistent themes has been its insistence that the 2008 financial crisis did not, in fact, doom the United States to a future of inevitable decline. Indeed, there are...
View Article(Mild) sympathy for the Davos elites
It's that time of the year again, when the Great and Good and Rich converge to Davos, Switzerland for the realpolitik starfuckingWorld Economic Forum. The coverage of this event gyrates wildly...
View Article'Good enough' global governance and international finance
The Washington Post's Howard Schneider and Danielle Douglas have a story detailing the ways in which post-crisis global financial reform has allegedly ground to a halt: Five years after the collapse...
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