Barack Obama’s presidency has had profoundly negative consequences for our national security. From debilitating cuts in defense budgets, to gutting national missile defense efforts, to his unwillingness to acknowledge a continuing war against terrorism, to his inability to stem the nuclear proliferation threats posed by North Korea and Iran....the picture is bleak.

Why all countries will come together more and more to hold the World Bank accountable for its questionable practices.

Progress has been made in reforming the International Monetary Fund, specifically in adopting recommendations of the Meltzer Commission. However,greater reform is desirable.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

If the world economy continues to stumble over the next year or two, much of South America may be afflicted with financial and business crises that produce another "lost decade," such as that which gripped the region in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s.

Price controls that keep the price of pharmaceuticals below market levels impede access to drugs, discourage drug development, and allow other countries to free-ride on American R&D.

Can the current post-Bretton Woods international monetary system prevent a return to the beggar-thy-neighbor policies and competitive devaluations that so harmed international prosperity in the 1930s? What are the system's flaws? Can they be corrected, and if so, how? An expert panel will address these and related issues.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.