Is India’s Shine Gone? (Part One)

Attempts by India’s governing party, the BJP, to play up the country’s recent economic success and take credit for it backfired spectacularly. India’s rural poor, it emerged, did not buy the success – much less give anyone credit. So the BJP is out and the Congress...

China’s Crony Crisis

The hype on the Chinese market has reached deafening levels. “If you want to be the world leader in your industry, you must be the leader in China,” said G.E.’s Jack Welch. But a rising chorus of dissenters argue the country’s economy is headed for crisis. So which is...

The Long Shadow of Iraq’s Future

Experts frequently point to Iraq’s past – colonial history, Saddam’s brutality, ethnic rivalries – to explain the current violence. But evidence from similar regimes indicates the causes may lie not in the echoes of the past, but in the long shadow cast by Iraq’s...

Turkey Looks West, and Up

“For the Turk, freedom is life,” declared Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founding father, in 1920. But he clearly had something in mind quite different from the democratic and market freedoms frequently praised by US President George W. Bush. For Ataturk, in the name...