Debates

Lively week-long exchanges between two experts on a foreign policy topic in the news, conducted via email and posted on CFR.org.

Is Chinese Investment Good for Africa?

Deborah Brautigam of American University, author of Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution, and Senegalese journalist Adama Gaye, author of China-Africa: The Dragon and the Ostrich, debate whether Chinese investment is good for Africa.

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How to Control a Nuclear North Korea?

For more than a decade, the United States and North Korea’s neighbors have tried various tactics to keep the rogue state, which conducted its first nuclear test in October, from becoming nuclear. David C. Kang and Aaron L. Friedberg debate the best approaches to influence a nuclear North Korea.

See more in North Korea, Proliferation