In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.

In this Brookings blog post, I tried to explain the difference between private sector business deals and government policy decisions.

For the Brookings blog, I suggested that being respected is a better foreign policy objective for the USA than being loved or feared.

Possibly the most intriguing piece I've written in the past 50 years is the text of a Keynote Address I delivered at a Model UN Conference.

In this Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I pushed back on an op-ed critical of Europe’s new financial transaction tax.

In this Brookings working paper, co-authored with Jim Fox, we describe the MCC as “a brilliant innovation” and make a case for more funding.

In this Q and A piece for Brookings, I address four key issues related to the nature of the Global Financial Crisis.

This Brookings Policy Brief, co-authored with Jim Fox, made the case for more budget funding of startup Millennium Challenge Corporation.

This Brookings op-ed described features of startup Millennium Challenge Corporation that could stop it from being a great aid instrument.

My writing career received a huge boost when I won first prize in the Amex Bank Review essay competition in 1986.