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July 17, 2019

Space
The Moon Landing Anniversary Confronts America With a Fateful Choice

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, U.S. policymakers face the choice of whether to put humanity on a trajectory of peaceful cooperation or dangerous militarization in space. 

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed U.S. flag on the lunar surface.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick and Kyle L. Evanoff The Internationalist

November 1, 2019

Chile
What’s Behind the Chile Protests?

Political unrest is sweeping Chile, as impatience with inequality grows in what has been one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable countries.

In Brief by Amelia Cheatham

May 12, 2017

Chile
Making Chile Great Again

In my piece published this week on Foreignaffairs.com, I reflect on the end to Chile’s exceptionalism and why, after three decades of democratic growth, protests now envelop the country. I argue that…

The words on the Chilean flag reads, "No more profit in the pension system"
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

October 27, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
Recovery of Nigeria’s Oil Production Under Threat

According to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (the state-owned oil company) Nigeria has the capacity to produce 2.5 million barrels of oil per day (bpd). At the beginning of the year, produ…

oil-militants
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

October 21, 2011

Economics
Reads of the Week: Analyzing Humala’s Victory in Peru

Source: Corporación Latinobarómetro, Informe Anual 2010 (Santiago de Chile, December 2010) Steven Levitsky’s recent article in the Journal of Democracy explains why Humala won the Peruvian elections…

Reads of the Week: Analyzing Humala’s Victory in Peru
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment