August 4, 2015
ChinaSitting on the beach—or less fortuitously in an office—with nothing better to do in the last weeks of summer than read a few books on U.S.-China relations? You might want to pick up the new books by …
December 13, 2016
ChinaAs the Trump-Taiwan-China saga continues to unfold, I thought it might be useful to look at the sequence of events and report on how Chinese scholars are looking at President-Elect Trump’s first fore…
January 20, 2016
Elections and VotingInauguration Day is now exactly one year away. In 366 days—2016 is a Leap Year—one of the candidates now barnstorming Iowa and New Hampshire will take the oath of office. Everything will change the m…
January 19, 2016
Human RightsElena Goldstein is a senior at Columbia University and an intern for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program. Today, if you search “Gollum” on Google, your results …
January 19, 2016
This is the fourth blog post in this series. The previous three were published in February, July, and October 2015, and highlight earlier academic findings. Cullen S. Hendriz, “A House Divided: Thr…
December 7, 2015
United StatesOn February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Cave of the Patriarchs, during dawn prayers and murdered twenty-nine Palestinians. He derived justification for t…
September 26, 2012
Diplomacy and International InstitutionsA new installment of “History Lessons” is now out. This time I examine the signing of the Munich Agreement in the early morning hours of September 30, 1938. (The agreement itself is dated September 2…
December 22, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers sit behind a wall after an IED blast in Logar province on November 23, 2011 (Umit Bektas/Courtesy Reuters). - William Booth, “More Predator drones fly U.S.-Mexico border,” Washing…
August 1, 2009
ChinaQing Wang of Morgan Stanley: "Given China’s high national savings rate, from the perspective of the economy as a whole, there are only three forms in which China can deploy its savings: 1) onshore p…
April 15, 2009
ChinaThis wasn’t exactly a surprise, despite Secretary Geithner’s comments in January. The US made a large global stimulus -- and a larger IMF -- its priority in the G20, not exchange rate reform. …
