China's new leadership is threatening to stay content with slower economic growth, and the country's manufacturing, housing, and export sectors are experiencing problems. Nonetheless, China has an opportunity to influence economic growth in 2012 through stimulus measures to its own economy.

No other organization has had a bigger impact on the economic policy of developing nations than the World Bank, yet its policies have been the subject of intense criticism. A recent book, The World's Banker (Penguin Press, September 2004), by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby chronicles and...

Disproportionately more international terrorists hail from Pakistan than from any other place on earth.Why has radical Islam become so entrenched in this supposedly secular Muslim state?

South Africa finally shifts to deal with Zimbabwe PresidentRobert Mugabe as inflation skyrockets.

There will always be anti-Americanism in Europe. On gun control, the death penalty, genetically modified foods, the size of the state and the role of religion, the two continents are at loggerheads. But there is no point in exacerbating the split with my-way-or-the-highway rhetoric.

For the removal of Saddam Hussein be a meaningful exercise for the future of the Arab world, clarity of purpose and a willingness to commit diplomatic, political and military capital is imperative.

Calls for transformative change in American schooling have too often accepted the orthodoxies of the nineteenth-century schoolhouse. This Outlook offers a more promising vision for twenty-first-century, choice-centered reform.

Though China appears to have halted its proliferation activities, those activities suggest a more casual attitude towards nuclear weapons than one of abhorrence. Indeed, actions speak louder than words. That Beijing proliferated nuclear technology, materials, and know-how-and to relatively unstable regimes that may be less cautious about using nuclear weapons-is worrying.