Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming ...

From 1980 to 2004 joining the European Union was quite popular among large sections of the populations in concerned countries. Portuguese, Greek and Spanish citizens regarded their countries’ ...

The impact of international trade is studied in a general equilibrium model in which firms engage in oligopolistic competition and linkage effects are present. Results are derived analytically. If ...

Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...

The definition of “empire” presupposes a relationship between a dominant core and peripheries. This talk turns the metropole into a conceptual and empirical puzzle, asking why, what, how and when ...

My son is in love and engaged to be married. Trouble is, he wants the two families to fall in love as well. He's proposing a five-day camping trip so we can bond "au naturel." In Yiddish, there's a ...