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Despite China’s recent economic struggles, many economists and analysts argue that the country remains on course to overtake the United States and become the world’s leading economic power someday soon. Indeed, this has become a mainstream view - if not quite a consensus belief - on both sides of the Pacific. But proponents of this position often neglect to take into account an important truth.

Despite all the grim predictions, the European Union is not on the verge of collapse. Quite the contrary: If European leaders act with resolve and persistence, the union could experience a rebirth.

Almost as soon as the financial crisis struck in late 2007, policy-makers began working to prevent another one. The roots of the crisis, they contended, lay in reckless lending and excess debt. Banks had made massive loans to “subprime” borrowers, who had little ability to repay them, and the banks funded these investments with borrowed money. When the US housing bubble burst, millions of Americans defaulted on their mortgages, and the overleveraged banks collapsed.

How to understand the economic impact of migration.

As Algeria and Sudan take their first tentative steps toward democracy, they can draw on lessons from Egypt's 2011 revolution to help keep their own transitions on track.

Hamas is becoming increasingly unpopular in Gaza. And the group itself is divided, with its moderate Politburo increasingly overshadowed by a hard-line military wing.

Banking is an inherently risky business, and the United States will, sooner or later, face another major financial crisis. Yet the tools policymakers have to respond are even weaker than they were before the last crash. Politicians should restore more discretion to financial firefighters, not as a substitute for strong safeguards, but as a complement to them.

To strengthen its economic power and extend its strategic influence during uncertain times, Washington must lead on global trade. If it doesn't, it will be left on the sidelines.

When Barack Obama joined other global leaders at the G-20 summit in Turkey, the United States was in the final stages of a multiyear effort to secure the approval of a set of important reforms to the International Monetary Fund. The reforms were designed to double the organization’s core financial resources to combat financial crises and to modernize its governance by increasing the voting shares of emerging-market economies while maintaining a decisive US voice.

Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel, talks to Foreign Affairs about succeeding in the mobile sector, innovating in the developing world, and the future of governance in Africa.

Socialism and declining oil prices are often blamed for Venezuela’s catastrophe, but in reality, it was decades of destructive leadership under Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, that transformed Venezuela into a poor country and criminalized state beholden to a foreign power. 

As Trump and Congressional Republicans learn to work together, Congress will play a larger role in governance than it has in recent years. And Trump should remember that, in the last resort, Congress’ powers exceed his own.

The United States has been waging digital warfare for over a quarter century but, in the future, it must use its cyberpower cautiously as if such a war spun out of control, the United States would have the most to lose.

North Korea no longer poses a nonproliferation problem; it poses a nuclear deterrence problem. The United States should repeat the basic strategy that worked against the Soviet Union: practice careful deterrence until the regime in Pyongyang collapses under its own weight.

Recent satellite images show that the Spratly islands, a series of features in the South China Sea, are growing at a staggering pace. Tons of sand, rocks, coral cuttings, and concrete are transforming miniscule Chinese-occupied outcroppings into sizeable islands with harbors, large multi-story buildings, airstrips, and other government facilities. The parties behind the construction and defense of these islands remain a thinly veiled secret.

A well developed Salafist scene helps explain the disproportionately high levels of radicalization in Catalonia.

Fuel cells and the future of energy.

To make lone wolf attacks less likely and prepare for those that do occur, governments should keep them isolated, build strong relationships between Muslim communities and law enforcement, monitor social media, and discredit the ideology that lone wolves embrace.

Even if neither the United States nor China want a nuclear war, a future conventional conflict between the two countries could slide into a nuclear crisis more easily than we think. Policymakers on both sides must be aware of this eventuality as tensions rise. 

The Trump administration’s bureaucratic problems do not come from an insidious, undemocratic “deep state” but simply from the state—the large, complex hive of people and procedures that constitute the U.S. federal government.