In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I...

For the next few weeks, I am planning to be writing on the Egyptian Constitution. Today, I begin with the starting words of the Preamble....

Several weeks ago, I wrote of the resurgence of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe. I focused on the process by which he plans and hopes...

It seems absurd to claim that any country in a region as unstable as the Middle East/North Africa could be stagnant – but if any of them...

In Myanmar, change seems to be the new norm. Now officially known as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian nation...

Last week I missed an important reason why Spain is in a state of absolute disarray. This of course is the growing strength of...

It was a little over five years ago that Shinzo Abe, Japan’s 90th Prime Minister, unceremoniously resigned his post amidst government...

There are cultural moments when I switch into impartial observer, not the usual crazy-eyed denizen, of the blogosphere left. Say,...

In reading the New York Times yesterday, it struck me that following the news about Syria is becoming almost unbearably frustrating. More...

There is a famous Spanish saying, éramos muchos y parió la abuela –we were too many, and then grandma had a baby. In military jargon this...

As a columnist who writes exclusively on MENA (Middle East/North Africa), I’m just going to state the obvious: I don’t usually end up...

Earlier this week, President Obama officially recognized the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the...

Fears of ‘Grexit’ has yet to wane, but the press is talking about another country’s possible retreat from the EU—Britain. The Economist...

New euro Bills are set to enter circulation in May 2013. Instead of the now familiar imaginary architecture, these bills will feature “a...

The ceasefire established Wednesday between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas (which controls the Gaza Strip) ended a week of rocket...

I was hoping to stop writing on austerity and switch to nationalism and the extreme right in Europe. However, France’s recognition of the...

If Tuesday’s elections represented the triumph of liberalism in the US, no similar trend is to be found in Europe. Far from capitalizing...

When we think about the so-called “Arab Spring,” which countries come to mind? Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen are the first: the ones...

The Economist recently posted an interesting article on fiscal transfers between the sixteen German states, with the subtitle “Germans...

In my last eurocrisis rant I argued three changes were necessary for the EU to begin crawling its way out of the hole it has dug itself...