Hopes were high. Promises were made. There were even small clamors of joy found in the most dilapidated of homes. From the moment Morgan Tsvangirai was inaugurated as Zimbabwean prime minister, February 11, 2009, Zimbabwe has witnessed nothing but controversy and corruption, power struggle instead of power shared. President Robert Mugabe maintained the post he had [...]

Emerging stocks rose on Thursday towards new year highs set earlier in the week fuelled mainly by Asian optimism, but Central and Eastern European currencies once again underperformed. Political unrest in Moldova had little effect on markets, but investors watched for wider impact. Moldova’s Communist president, Vladimir Voronin, today accused neighboring Romania yesterday of trying to overthrow [...]

In order to cope with the challenges of a growing international economic crisis, Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming stated Monday that China is willing to increase cooperation with their largest African trading partner, Angola. Of course this is not a bad trend. Since November of 2006, China has not only forgiven Angola’s matured debts [...]

Today I read with great interest this piece in the New York Times Magazine, which explores some of the central corporate foreign policy issues we see crop up for a variety of technology companies, such as Skype and Yahoo!’s recent experiences with the Chinese government seeking the identity of dissidents.  To what extent are these [...]