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March 26, 2020

COVID-19
Quarantined: Federalism in Action at Home and Abroad

The rapid spread of the coronavirus in the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a new reality for most—if not all—Americans, as a growing number of U.S. states have imposed a variety of stay-at-home direct…

Woman in Italy wearing protective mask during coronavirus

October 7, 2020

Emerging Economies
Reframing the Collective Action Problem in Sovereign Bond Restructuring

A recent white paper from Lazard points out that emerging market sovereign bond holdings are often fairly concentrated among a handful of big players.  The main impediment to collective action may be…

Reframing the Collective Action Problem in Sovereign Bond Restructuring

January 29, 2016

North Korea
THAAD: The Moment of Decision Has Arrived

Sungtae “Jacky” Park is research associate for Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the author of The Korean Pivot and the Return of Great Power Politics in Northeast Asia. On…

THAAD Korea China Missile Defense Kim North Nuclear Sanctions Test

March 17, 2011

Kenya
Kibaki’s Attempt to Defer ICC Cases Fizzles

Kenya's President Kibaki arrives at the 16th African Union summit, in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. (Thomas Mukoya/Courtesy Reuters) Kenyan President Mwai Kabaki is pushing back – hard – on the In…

Kibaki’s Attempt to Defer ICC Cases Fizzles

May 25, 2018

Cape Verde
West African Migrants Arrive in Brazil After Weeks Adrift at Sea

A group of twenty-five African migrants attempted to sail in a catamaran from the West African archipelago of Cape Verde to northeastern Brazil, a distance of less than two thousand miles.

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