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March 6, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
What Can the United States Do About Failing States?

Around one billion people live in fragile or failing states. Yet no Washington administration has developed a strategy for helping such states address the causes of their fragility. Instead, most adm…

A child stands in pouring rain in the slum of Susan's Bay in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, August 22, 2012.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 28, 2014

Economics
Two Decades of U.S.-Mexico Relations

I had the great privilege of joining Eric Farnsworth, Vice President of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, and Nelson Cunningham, President of McLarty Associates, yesterday at NDN for …

Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America’s Moment

January 16, 2012

Iran
How Not To React To Provocations From Iran

If there is any chance of avoiding a military confrontation with Iran or the Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons, that chance will be the product of very resolute American policy toward Iran. In t…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

May 18, 2016

United States
American Jews and Israel

Are American Jews and Israel drifting apart? In an article and a podcast I examine the theories and two recent books on the subject. The article is the monthly essay at the web site Mosaic, and ca…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

August 31, 2012

Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egyptian Labor, Syrian Brutality, and Gulf Stereotypes

Eric Lee at In These Times discusses Egypt’s unfinished labor revolution. Robin Yassin-Kassab, on his blog Qunfuz, writes about the Assad regime’s brutality, highlighting the recent massacre in Dara…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates