November 14, 2014
Noncommunicable DiseasesOverview The gravest health threats facing low- and middle-income countries are not the plagues, parasites, and blights that dominate the news cycle and international relief efforts. They are …
February 26, 2007
TradeDaniel J. Ikenson and Robert E. Lighthizer debate the mechanism for adjudicating trade arguments.
August 20, 2018
NigeriaA new compilation of data gives insight into the African Islamist insurgency’s reach, tactics, and evolution. It reveals a far higher victim count than previous estimates.
August 7, 2013
United StatesEconomists who want to compare the living standards of countries often use GDP, but the calculation and usefulness of the measurement remains controversial.
February 15, 2017
Middle East and North AfricaPresident Donald Trump’s decision to suspend refugee admissions to the United States and block the citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries has been criticized as a violation of longstanding U.S. …
February 15, 2017
CybersecurityLorand Laskai, research assistant in the Asia studies program, and Alex Grigsby, assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program, contributed to this post. Earlier this week, Chine…
August 3, 2017
Human TraffickingLearn more about modern human trafficking—and how it affects women and girls—through six publications from the Women and Foreign Policy program.
October 24, 2017
ChinaChina’s success in the next five years will depend largely on how well the government manages the tensions underlying its complex agenda. In particular, China’s leaders will need to balance a muscula…
November 28, 2017
EconomicsThe global economy will confront serious challenges in the months and years ahead, and looming in the background is a mountain of debt that makes markets nervous—and that thus increases the system's vulnerability to destabilizing shocks. Yet the baseline scenario seems to be one of continuity, with no obvious convulsions on the horizon.
January 2, 2018
IranBut things are likely to get much, much worse before they—eventually—get better.