Seeking to build on related successes in other information technology sectors, the government of India has signaled its intent to transform the country’s performance in microelectronics. Facing a young and expanding population, India needs to create manufacturing jobs in promising industries,...

In recent decades, both South Korea and Taiwan have made remarkable leaps in the development and production of semiconductors — the core element in burgeoning global telecommunications, computer, and computer equipment industries. Although many aspects of their sectoral industrial strategies...

Despite the fragility of authoritative governing institutions at the international level, the political capacity to deal with global risks is developing. The sense of legitimacy that will ultimately derive from a deeply transnational sense of shared fate continues to lag, but even in that regard...