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May 20, 2008

Immigration and Migration
U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality

After taking a 3 plus month maternity hiatus, I am back and will be posting regularly again. To kick things off, here is a link to a new Independent Task Force report from the Council on Foreign Re…

January 6, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Balzac and Nigeria’s Boko Haram

This is a guest post by Jim Sanders, a career, now retired, West Africa watcher for various federal agencies. The views expressed below are his personal views and do not reflect those of his former e…

Balzac

October 12, 2012

United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Egypt Clashes, Turkey-Syria Escalate, Israel Calls Elections

Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Hundreds of people were injured today when supporters and opponents of Egyptian leader Mohammed Morsi clashed violently in Tahrir Square for the first tim…

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi punches an anti-Brotherhood protester at Tahrir Square on October 12, 2012 (Chany/Courtesy Reuters).

May 29, 2015

United States
You Might Have Missed: Assassination Plots, Drone Strikes, and Women Special Operators

Memorandum From the President’s Counselor (Marsh) to President Ford, Foreign Relations of the United States 1917-1972, Volume XXXVIII, Part 2, Document 55, U.S. Department of State Office of the Hist…

Female Soldier Afghanistan

November 3, 2015

Oceans and Seas
Oceans and Climate Change: A Bleak Outlook

Coauthored with Naomi Egel, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the Paris climate meeting rapidly approaches, t…

Waves crash against stairs to Broad Beach in Malibu, California, United States.