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March 8, 2024

United States
Campaign Roundup: Joe Biden Makes the Case for Ukraine Aid

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: President Joe Biden used his State of the Union Address to urge Congress to provide military aid to…

Biden SOTU

December 6, 2023

India
Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs—The Reasons Can Be Complex

Few former colonies officially press perpetrator states to redress past injustices, largely due to divergent narrative within victim states about how to view past colonial history.

Members of a Namibian delegation attend a ceremony in Berlin to hand back human remains from Germany to Namibia following the 1904 to 1908 genocide against the Herero and Nama.

October 15, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976

Highlights from the recently-released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis 1974-1980 Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting, October 22, 1974 …

Kissinger

August 16, 2019

Afghanistan
Afghanistan Endgame, Part Two: How Does This War End?

Should the Haqqani network manage a collapse of the Afghan government, Pakistan threatens to make winning the next war more difficult than previous ones.

u.s. united states troops afghanistan haqqani network taliban

October 23, 2023

Cybersecurity
The Importance of the Internet Governance Forum

The UN has put its weight behind the multilateral Global Digital Compact as a new process to govern the internet. However, the world would be far better off supporting the long-running, multistakehol…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers a speech during the opening session of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.

October 16, 2023

Japan
Doden Aiko: Answering a Journalist’s Calling

Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Special Affairs Commentator Doden Aiko offers her insights from working as a correspondent and field reporter around the world.

Doden Aiko, Special Affairs Commentator at NHK

May 3, 2023

Economics
Getting Debt Restructuring Terms Right

State contingent instruments can play a role in debt restructuring agreements, but they shouldn’t be a give-away to investors.  There is a compelling case for their use in Zambia—but not in Sri Lanka…

Andrea Shalal moderates an IMF roundtable on tackling public debt with Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Director, Strategy, Policy and Review Department IMF, Felix Nkulukusa, Secretary to the Treasury, Zambia, Marco Buti, Head of Cabinet of European Commission and Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Director and Economic Counsellor, Research Department, IMF, during IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund Building in Washington, U.S.