Putin’s missiles raining on Ukraine about every night. It’s sickening. How is Ukraine able to hold the line? Why is it so hard to stop Putin?

In 2019, Indonesia's last president started building a new capital city on the island of Kalimantan. My view of the project is updated here.

The Singapore Straits Times published my op-ed on this rivalry in October 2020. Now seems like a good moment to update my thoughts about it.

The services sector has been leading India's recent economic growth. Critics say manufacturing should lead in the future. I argue for focusi

In 2022, I joined a group of ex-US Treasury officials to advise the Ukraine government on key issues in international finance.

I co-authored an essay, published by East Asia Forum in May 2020, on how to make Indonesia’s project to build a new capital successful.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Alex Arifianto, we called the upcoming election a “statistical dead heat”.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Joseph Chinyong Liow, we identified three policy challenges for election victor Joko Widodo.

This is the text of my address at a conference in Istanbul hosted by the Minister for EU Affairs on “Rethinking Global Challenges”.

In this Brookings blog post, I noted how the job of Finance Minister is a killer and how her move to the World Bank may benefit the world.

In this Brookings op-ed, I stressed Indonesia’s importance, economically and politically, and its current strengths and weaknesses.

In this Brookings op-ed, the best measure of success of Secretary of State Clinton’s visit to Indonesia is how well she listens, I wrote.

In this Brookings op-ed, I described how President Suharto had become a problem for the US after years of being a friend; an object lesson.

This Brookings Q and A was prompted by the death of President Suharto. The overriding challenge going forward is to make democracy work.

Indonesia was the worst victim of the Asian Financial Crisis. In this Brookings op-ed, I suggest that Indonesia had gained the most from it.

The Brookings Institution Press published this book I co-authored with Ms. Jaleswari Pramodhawardani. Supported by USINDO.

This Brookings forum was a launch event for my study “Out of Business and On Budget: The Challenge of Military Financing in Indonesia”.

In this Brookings op-ed, reflecting on the Indian Ocean tsunami, I wrote that debt relief for tsunami-impacted countries is “good medicine”.

One of my biggest publishing coups was getting this essay published in the September-October issue of Foreign Affairs.

In the Brookings op-ed, I focused on the momentous national election of 2004, arguably its first free and fair democratic election.