The tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world....

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century....

Vulnerable to external pressure and confronting internal demands for change, the future of the North Korean state remains very much a live issue. In June 2003 the ratings agency Standard and Poor?...

Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation?and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the \"Washington consensus.\" But disappointing results in LatinAmerica and transitional economies?plus the Asian financial crisis?...

After a decade of sub-par performance, the Japanese economy remains in the doldrums. Now, after a decade of extraordinarily strong performance, the United States economy is slowing. The ability of the world\'s two largest economies to reestablish strong growth is of critical importance to themselves and to the world as a whole....