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April 7, 2014

Turkey
Turkey: Orientalists’ Delight

There has been a lot of commentary and speculation about what is likely to happen in Turkey now that the country is past the March 30 municipal elections.  The Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) r…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 20, 2013

The Blurry Frontiers of Economic Policy

Milan -- Around the world, policies, technologies, and extended learning processes have combined to erode barriers to economic interaction among countries. Pick any indicator: trade relative to globa…

A man walks past displays of the Japanese yen's exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and the euro in Tokyo on May 2, 2012 (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

March 18, 2014

Politics-Proof Economies?

This post was co-authored with David Brady, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. MILAN--Governments’ inability to ac…

Federal workers demonstrate for an end to the U.S. government shutdown on the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 13, 2013 (Jonathan Ernst/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

July 18, 2012

Trade
Tradable Prosperity

MILAN – The global economy is experiencing a major growth challenge. Many advanced countries are attempting to revive sustainable growth in the face of a decelerating global economy. But the challeng…

A truck is driven at a yard where cars are parked before being exported at a port in Incheon, Korea (Choi Dae-woong/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America

January 16, 2013

Education
Technology and the Employment Challenge

MILAN – New technologies of various kinds, together with globalization, are powerfully affecting the range of employment options for individuals in advanced and developing countries alike – and at va…

A worker checks vehicles at a Ford car plant in Craiova, Romania (Bogdan Cristel/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by A. Michael Spence Renewing America