Venezuelans may have to wait to sift through the rubble of the Chavez regime before they get a clear explanation for Mr. Chavez's recent reckless decisions. In the meantime, regardless of whether Mr. Chavez knows he is dying sooner or hopes he is dying later, it is apparent that he doesn't give a damn about the harm he is doing to the Venezuelan people or the mess he will leave behind.

In 2008 Barack Obama was propelled into office largely by a financial crisis. The main difference between then and now will be that this crisis did not originate in the US, but in Europe. And it will be one over which President Obama has no control.

In October 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to assume the helm of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He will do so at a time when the IMF is no longer a major lender to emerging market economies and when the IMF seems to have little to say about today’s large...

John R. Bolton responds to questions about Iran, Israel, the UN, and Barack Obama's foreign policy.

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This book provides a strategy for liberalizing the aviation services industry.

The inability to reach consensus has been a central obstacle to a Doha agreement in the World Trade Organization, so it is worthwhile to consider alternative paths to advance without complete agreement from all 153 members of the WTO.