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August 15, 2024

Peacekeeping
Women This Week: Sudanese Women Participate on Peace Talks

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers August 10 to August 16.

Sudanese women, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, look on while crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 4, 2023.

November 1, 2018

Democracy
A Review of Rachel Kleinfield’s "A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security"

By Nicholas Borroz In A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security, Rachel Kleinfield explains why some societies are plagued by internal violence, how such vio…

Rahmon_11.30.2017

July 11, 2024

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: Historic Number of Women Lawmakers Elected in Britain

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers July 6 to July 12.

Lindsay Hoyle reacts on the day of the election of Speaker of the House of Commons, in London, Britain, July 9, 2024.

March 17, 2008

Economics
Trading up — Jeff Frankel and Rachel Ziemba will be guest blogging this week

I will be away most of this week and will not be posting regularly. In the interim though, the quality of this blog is likely to go up.Jeff Frankel of Harvard (who recently started his own blog) h…

August 9, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Where the Presidential Race Stands Three Months Before Election Day

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: The 2024 election continues to be a tight race where policy issues are taking a back seat to person…

Poll Worker Voting Stickers

July 13, 2021

Women and Women's Rights
Global #MeToo Movement Has Potential to Revolutionize Gender Roles, New Book Reveals

Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone's new book Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights is out today. 

Book cover reading Awakening by Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone

June 29, 2020

U.S. Foreign Policy
Understanding Gender Equality in Foreign Policy: What the United States Can Do

A new report by Jamille Bigio and Rachel Vogelstein offers a comprehensive overview of how countries around the world are integrating gender equality as a foreign policy priority, and how the United …

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom addresses the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security, on October 27, 2017.