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December 9, 2020

Ireland
Arthur Ross Book Award: “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland”

Gideon Rose celebrates the winners of this year’s Arthur Ross Book Award: Patrick Radden Keefe, George Packer, and William Dalrymple. The program will include an award ceremony and a conversation wit…

Play Photo of Jean McConville

October 12, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
Editorial Fires Shed Little Light

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…

A member of a self-defense militia trains northeast of the capital Bamako 20/07/2012.

January 28, 2007

Economics
Davos nights

Gideon Rachman seems to be having far more fun at Davos than the far more earnest Nouriel “still doom and gloom in an ever more complacent world” Roubini.    Just guessing.  I don’t know what Nouriel…

March 27, 2023

Iraq War
Lessons From History Series: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq—Twenty Years Later

Panelists discuss lessons learned from the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, including the circumstances that led to Operation Iraqi Freedom and whether it was a necessary war, as well as the ramifications…

Play Residents look at a U.S. soldier from 1/8 Infantry Battalion as they undertake a foot patrol looking for militants, explosives and weapons in a neighborhood in Mosul

July 14, 2011

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
9/11 Perspectives: How America Changed its Projection of Power

This video is part of a special Council on Foreign Relations series that explores how 9/11 changed international relations and U.S. foreign policy. In this video, Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose a…