CSM&D's new Development Channel highlights big debates, promising approaches, and new research and thinkers addressing opportunity and exclusion in the global economy.
The threat of al-Qaeda is diminished but law enforcement officials remain concerned at the ability of radicals in the United States to connect with the terror group, says Mitchell Silber, director of the New York Police Department's Intelligence Division.
Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.
In The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left Ed Husain offers a rare inside glimpse of the devious methods used to recruit new members to fundamentalist groups, and offers profound insights into the appeal of fundamentalism for young Muslims in the Western world.
Strategic Foreign Assistance shows how the United States can and must bolster civil society as a means of addressing terrorism and other strategic concerns.
In this Markets and Democracy Brief, Judith Kelley examines the achievements, shortcomings, and drawbacks of international election monitoring, arguing that it merits both enthusiasm and healthy skepticism.
Markets and Democracy Briefs are designed to offer readers a concise snapshot of current thinking on critical issues surrounding democracy and economic development in the world today.