A New Crackdown in Belarus
February 23, 2015 | Ahead of elections later this year, the state once dubbed "Europe's Last Dictatorship" is launching a fierce new crackdown on journalists and human rights defenders.
Articles by David Felix
Nukes in Europe: Coming Home Soon
March 30, 2011 | The United States and 13 NATO allies are actively seeking to remove U.S. nuclear weapons from Europe.
IMF: Case of a Dead Theory Walking
October 12, 2005 | The Asian financial crisis has eased, but its reverberations have enmeshed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a major legitimacy crisis over its recently assumed mission and its ability to implement it.
Contagion Effect Taking Hold in Latin America
August 21, 2002 | Despite the IMF's reformist rhetoric about "bailing in" foreign investors and distributing adjustment costs more equitably, there is nothing novel about the new IMF standby credit. It is once again about bailing out banks and bondholders.
After the Fall: The Argentine Crisis and Repercussions
August 1, 2002 | brief review of Argentina's decline from poster child of the IMF and Wall Street during most of the 1990s
Blaming the Victim in Argentina
August 1, 2002 | The new IMF prescription of fiscal austerity and no capital controls makes little economic sense.
After the Fall: The Argentine Crisis and Possible Repercussions
December 1, 2001 | Will the Bush administration retreat from hardline unilateralism when it comes to aid for Argentina?
Is Argentina the Coup de Grace of the IMF’s Flawed Policy Mission?
November 1, 2001 | The reverberations from the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 enmeshed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a major legitimacy crisis over its recently assumed mission to promote free capital mobility around the globe.
The Argentine Crisis as Coup de Grace?
September 1, 2001 | The U.S. needs to resume its original Bretton Woods perspective.
Repairing the Global Financial Architecture: Painting over Cracks vs. Strengthening the Foundations
June 1, 1999 | An alternative package of architectural reforms: Bretton Woods Light