The Merida Initiative is a multi-year security agreement between the governments of the United States, Mexico, the nations of Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti to combat violence and organized crime. The U.S. Congress has appropriated $1.6 billion since the program began in 2008.

Listen to Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as he details his agency's efforts to effectively address threats from global terrorism as a global security, national security, and law enforcement organization.

Listen to Robert S. Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as he details his agency's efforts to effectively address threats from global terrorism as a global security, national security, and law enforcement organization.

International coordination is key to countering modern-day freebooters, say James Kraska and Brian Wilson.

The International Maritime Organization's Djibouti Code of Conduct regarding piracy and armed robbery was signed on January 29, 2009.

Michael J. Gerson discusses the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army Leader, Joseph Kony; his crimes against humanity; and the quest to find him.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1846, regarding repressing acts of piracy and armed robbery at sea off the coast of Somalia, was adopted on December 2, 2008.

This is a brief on the piracy issue in Somalia.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1816, regarding acts of piracy and armed robbery against vessels in territorial waters and the high seas off the coast of Somalia, was adopted on June 2, 2008.

Ashley Deeks explains why Congress should pass a bill that would give government more power to prosecute PSCs.

Michael Gerson writes that, in Rwanda , there is a “need to somehow deliver the next generation from shapeless rage."

The Bush administration is convening a conference in Annapolis to try to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Skeptics, however, abound.

Book premier of "The Nuclear Jihadist: The true story of the man who sold the world's most dangerous secrets, and how we could have stopped him" by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins.

The United States needs the ICC to help restore its global credibility, discipline its own decision-making, and strengthen judicial intervention against atrocity crimes.