1. Oil fields in Iraqi Kurdistan

    Exxon Moves on Kurdistan Deal Despite Baghdad Threat

    The geostrategic consultancy Wikistrat analyzes the impact of the American oil major’s presence in northern Iraq.

  1. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France gives a television interview at the Élysée Palace in Paris, January 29, 2012

    Sarkozy Wants French to Be More Like Germans

    “If it worked for them,” the embattled French president wondered in a television interview, “why wouldn’t it work for us?”

  1. German chancellor Angela Merkel in Laatzen, Lower Saxony, March 4, 2008 (Sebastian Gerhard)

    Europe “Essentially Makes Keynesianism Illegal”

    Britain stands on the sidelines as the rest of Europe moves toward closer economic and fiscal integration.

  1. Traffic in New Delhi, India, February 13, 2010 (Kalpana Chatterjee)

    India’s Licence Raj Refuses to Die

    India cannot afford a Hindu rate of growth in the twenty-first century but necessary reforms are not forthcoming.

  1. German chancellor Angela Merkel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2012 (Remy Steinegger)

    Merkel Raises Questions About Bigger Bailout Fund

    In Davos, the German leader said she doesn’t want to promise something that she can’t back up.