Stewart Patrick contends that assumptions about the threats posed by failing states--or "weak links"--are based on anecdotal arguments and challenges the conventional wisdom through systematic empirical analysis.

Kara C. McDonald and Stewart M. Patrick offer recommendations for U.S. leadership in United Nations Security Council reform and expansion.

President Obama's first appearance before the UN General Assembly is an opportunity to reassert U.S. leadership at the world body on issues from nonproliferation to peacekeeping, writes CFR's Stewart Patrick.

Stewart M. Patrick reviews Too Poor for Peace? by Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet.

Stewart M. Patrick argues that in Afghanistan, NATO is at risk of losing its relevance, and Washington should broaden NATO's horizons by seeking allied support for a regional approach to the conflict.

CFR's Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown argue that the United States must take a hard line with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if it hopes to end the crisis in Darfur.

Stewart M. Patrick argues that U.S. national security is dependent upon a commitment to free trade.

While some G-20 leaders want to map out a "New Deal for the Twenty-First Century," CFR's Stewart Patrick says they risk spawning a twenty-first century version of the Great Depression if they don't agree on coordinated short-term steps to stimulate economic activity and to ensure both credit and trade flow freely.

A look at the long-standing but unresolved debate of the virtues and values of multilateralism verus unilateralism in American foreign policy.

Stewart Patrick argues that the November 15 meeting of the G20 will likely not result in a breakthrough similar to the one at the original Bretton Woods.

Stewart Patrick discusses why President Bush's address to the U.N. had the right content, but lacked validity.

This chapter by Stewart Patrick is excerpted from the book The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President and addresses how the United States must reformulate how it handles failing, failed and war-torn states.

Stewart M. Patrick, a former member of the State Department's Policy Planning staff, discusses the utility of international courts in combating rampant rights abuses.

Today's global architecture should reflect contemporary power realities that have developed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, writes Stewart Patrick. Instead, the world must make do with creaky bodies like the G8, United Nations, IMF and NATO, whose agendas, capabilities and governance structures reflect a world that no longer exists.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, and International Environmental Protection, Stewart M. Patrick discusses policy options for international disaster assistance.

CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of supporting the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.

Stewart Patrick addresses the difficult question of whether or not the UN should intervene in Myanmar and do something about the “callous indifference” that the ruling junta is showing towards its people.

In this Washington Quarterly report Stewart Patrick looks at the U.S. defense strategy of strengthening the sovereign capacities of weak states to combat internal threats of terrorism, insurgency, and organized crime.

State Department Policy Planning staff member Stewart Patrick gave these remarks at the Lewis and Clark College forty-second Annual International Affairs Symposium, The Suffering of Strangers: Global Humanitarian Intervention in a Turbulent World, April 5-7, 2004.