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September 25, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
U.S. Sanctions and Zimbabwe

Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF party repeatedly assert that the collapse of Zimbabwe’s economy is the result of Western–especially American–sanctions. He repeats it enough that African public o…

Crowds cheer Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe during a rally in the capital Harare March 2, 2011.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 15, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
GCC Nations: Protections and Risks

With the exception of Yemen, the member nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council range from prosperous to extremely rich—but they are also vulnerable to security threats from terrorists and from Iran…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

August 20, 2019

Democratic Republic of Congo
Disinformation and Disease: Social Media and the Ebola Epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The proliferation of disinformation online amidst the DRC’s outbreak of the Ebola virus is a serious threat to global health. Efforts to curb bad information and conspiracy theories on social media a…

Children look at a billboard providing information about Ebola outside the newly constructed MSF (Doctors Without Borders) Ebola treatment centre in Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, August 3, 2019.
Blog Post by David P. Fidler Net Politics

October 23, 2012

North Korea
Global Korea in International Security: Why It Is Likely to Last

The agenda for the annual U.S.-ROK Security Consultative Meeting to be held this week in Washington between South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin and his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of Defense L…

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Blog Post by Scott A. Snyder Asia Unbound