The Vreelander

We've been saying it for years . If emerging markets don't get a stronger voice in international institutions like the Internationa...

Many are suggesting that now is not the time to cut spending. Now is not the time to raise taxes. With interest rates so low, we have a gold...

I was traveling last week, so I didn't get a chance to re-post the following. It's something I've been talking a lot about on FB...

As the G20 Summit closes, I wanted to return to something I posted about over the summer . Once again, we see that the G20 doesn't actua...

Last time at The Vreelander , we learned that votes for 187 member-countries countries at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Worl...

Every two years, representatives of countries from all over the world gather in Washington, DC to elect two committees that partly rule the...

The President of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, visited Georgetown University yesterday . I asked him about the future of the leadership o...

Why should you care about the G20? The G20 represents the arrival of the emerging markets! The 2008 financial meltdown made clear the reali...

So here it is : the long-awaited, much anticipated bail out of Greece. Was there really ever any doubt? I guess there was a little - that...

Last month I was privileged to participate in a conference on foreign aid at Oxford University . Why do governments provide foreign aid? To...

The Financial Times reports today, " Berlin shifts stance on IMF role in Greece. " So, one day Germany says it won't bail out ...

Thomas Meaney (Columbia University) and Harris Mylonas (George Washington University) have an interesting take on the Greek tragedy in the ...

Prime Minister Hatoyama announced today that the yen is too strong and said that the exchange rate should be left to the markets... But, of...

Two headlines today in the London Financial Times are indicative of a multi-polar world: Beijing studies severing peg to US dollar Eurozone ...

Congress is flirting with “Buy America” again , “complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries.” T...

The Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling for countries to raise their inflation targets and pursue counter c...

Why do dictatorships enter into human rights treaties? I addressed this question a while back , picking up on a puzzle first identified by m...

My name is James Raymond Vreeland , Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School...