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August 4, 2017

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egyptian Beer, Turkey's Kurdish Question, and Saudi Arabia's Yemeni Mercenaries

Reading selections for the weekend of August 4, 2017.

YemenSoldiers
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 22, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Cassava Beer, Nigerian Guinness, and Western Companies

Beer bottles roll on a conveyor belt at the East African Breweries Ruaraka factory in Kenya's capital Nairobi, February 17, 2010. (Thomas Mukoya/Courtesy Reuters) The day before last, I attended an …

Cassava Beer, Nigerian Guinness, and Western Companies
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

October 3, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
De Beers Diamond Moves Sales Army from London to Botswana

For the past century or so, big mining corporations have pursued their operations in Africa, but their senior management, marketing, and sales have been in Europe or North America. That is changing. …

Botswana Diamond
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

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
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound

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…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money