Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Alan Alexandroff, director of the Global Summitry project at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, to discuss the role of sovereig…

Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Larry Downing For 30 years, the G7 ruled the roost--Americans, Canadians, Europeans, and Japanese.  And with the exception of the Japanese, there was nary an Asian in sight…

A new Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force report offers recommendations for mitigating technology-induced disruption to the domestic economy and U.S.-led international order. 

The international rules-based order established after World War II seems to be under relentless pressure, threatening its foundations existentially. If so, what if anything can be done to reinvigorat…

For the past six years, President Barack Obama has dominated the annual opening of the UN General Assembly, his words and initiatives driving the agenda and media coverage. This year, it was Russian …

Nigerian statesman Olusegun Obasanjo’s rejection of liberal democracy is heartfelt—and wrong.