International Selection

Finland and Sweden no longer view NATO membership as merely a strategic choice: Since February 24, it has become an existential imperative. A column by Carl Bildt.

The International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook is sobering, and the IMF does not expect its significant downward revision for 2022 to be offset in 2023. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

If Xi Jinping allows Russia, China’s «no limits» strategic partner, to divide the world with its war on Ukraine, it is China that will pay the heaviest price. A column by Minxin Pei.

Two reasons speak against this assumption. So far, the war has not led to large-scale interruptions in the supply. And most of the price increase happened before the invasion. A column by Daniel Gros.

Many academic studies estimate a smaller-than-expected quantitative impact from a US-China economic rupture. That is the theory, at least. It would be much better not to test it. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

A smarter labor policy would create opportunities for those in America who want to work, while combating inflation. By Todd G. Buchholz and Michael Mindlin.

Especially if the inflation trend of the past 30 years is reversed, the turmoil we have seen in bond markets so far this year could be just a prelude. A column by Jim O’Neill.

While the fortunes of Ukraine remain to be seen, the outcome for Russia is all too obvious: a future as dark as its darkest past. A column by Nina L. Khrushcheva.

Although the human costs of Putin’s war are incalculable, the economic toll is not. Whatever the total comes to, the Kremlin must foot the bill. A column by Anders Åslund.

Germany’s pledge to abandon coal and nuclear, the very energy sources that would have given it a degree of self-sufficiency and autonomy, has thus placed the country in great danger. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

If the EU stopped importing oil and gas from Russia, the harm to Russia’s economy would be rapid and severe. The problem is that an energy boycott would entail extreme hardship for Europe as well. Anne O. Krueger.

By bolstering the case for more nuclear weapons in Asia, Putin’s attack on Ukraine could decimate what little is left of the region’s strategic stability. A column by Minxin Pei.