This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not guaranteed.

In "Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II," Pulitzer Prize finalist Arthur Herman describes how the U.S. won history’s greatest conflict by harnessing free market principles and private-sector creativity and innovation to increase war production.

The real question hanging over all this is whether there was a quid pro quo for Mr. Chen’s release.

Perhaps we will be forced by then to go back to basics and demand a new Magna Carta.

Nowhere is the prospect of a decent Iraq more menacing than next door in oil-rich Saudi Arabia.

Resident Fellow Thomas Donnelly The approval by the Iraqi parliament of a strategic framework agreement, which includes a status of forces agreement defining the role of U.S. military in Iraq whose current United Nations (UN) mandate expires at...

Some people fear that the war against terrorism will mean an unacceptable loss in American freedoms, but, so far, ithasn't happened.

The past two weeks of turmoil and drama in Sino-American affairs may well be the new normal, not an exception to an otherwise placid bilateral relationship. While Friday brought news of a possible deal allowing dissident Chen Guangcheng to leave China to study in America, that deal is no more certain than the earlier, failed deal, announced just days before