How we fare in turning the children of the world into productive and engaged citizens of an ever-smaller, more integrated planet will teach the world a lesson on the vitality of the American promise.

In their responses to the current economic crisis, governments paid lip service to global coordination but propelled separate stimulus programs meant to rev up national markets.

How should Japan maintain its political and economic independence and protect its national interest when caught between the U.S., which is fighting to retain its position as the world's dominant power, and China, which is seeking ways to become dominant?

International parental child abduction is not a new phenomenon but its increasing frequency appears to be a by-product of globalization.

Rock may have smashed the iron curtain, but it was just the moonwalk that did it for India.

The financial and economic crisis is hitting the poor the worst.