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April 17, 2024

Iran
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Conceived as the principal defenders of the 1979 revolution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has evolved into an institution with vast political, economic, and military power.

Members of the Revolutionary Guards attend a parliamentary session in Tehran.

February 27, 2024

International Law
Three Challenging Policy Issues for the Prosecutor in the Israel-Hamas Situation

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC),[1] Karim A. A. Khan,[2] faces several challenging policy issues in the months ahead regarding the Israel-Hamas situation.[3] In this co…

January 18, 2024

Yemen
Virtual Media Briefing: Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea

Panelists discuss Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, American and British responses, and prospects for regional escalation.  ELDER: Thank you. Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining us for this media brief…

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January 2, 2024

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Destructive Drive in African Politics

The descent into normlessness in various African countries calls for a new scholarly and policy approach.

Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers discover railway infrastructure in a scrapyard during a raid on a highjacked property in Johannesburg on September 6, 2023.

December 29, 2023

2023 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2023

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Sunset

October 4, 2023

International Finance
Academic Webinar: International Financial Architecture

Tamar Gutner, associate professor of international affairs at American University’s School of International Service, leads the conversation on the international financial architecture. FASKIANOS: …

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September 21, 2023

Malaysia
A Conversation With Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia

RUBIN: OK. (Laughs.) Good afternoon. I’m Bob Rubin. I’m co-chair emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. And it is my enormous privilege to welcome an old personal friend to the Council today, …

Play Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the general assembly of the People’s Justice Party.

August 24, 2023

International Criminal Court
The Role of the International Criminal Court

The ICC was created to bring justice to the world’s worst war criminals, but debate over the court still rages.

Judges are pictured in the courtroom during the trial of Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court.

June 22, 2023

Afghanistan
Our Biggest Errors in Afghanistan and What We Should Learn from Them

As a journalist, book author, and sometime adviser with frequent visits to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2015, I offer this distillation of lessons that we might learn from the United States’ longest …

An Afghan working in a U.S military base walks near half mast flags of United States, Afghanistan and Task Force Cacti after a U.S. Army officer was killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) during a patrol in Pesh Valley, at Forward Operating Base Joyce in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan March 18, 2012.