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April 21, 2020

COVID-19
Singapore: The Limits of a National Response

The recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Singapore shows that there are limits to what national responses to a global pandemic can achieve. 

Migrant workers look out from their balconies at Punggol S-11 dormitory, during the coronavirus outbreak in Singapore on April 6, 2020.
Blog Post by Simon Tay and Kevin Chen Asia Unbound

April 17, 2019

Slovakia
Women This Week: Slovakia's First Female President

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering April 8 to April 14, was compiled by LaTr…

Zuzana Caputova addresses the media at the party's headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 30, 2019.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

August 6, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Fighting FGM

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering July 23 to August 4, was compiled with su…

Fatima, 12, attends Arabic classes at Imran Binu Hussein Primary School in the Hodan district, Mogadishu.
Blog Post by Rachel B. Vogelstein Women Around the World

April 30, 2021

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Representation for Afghan Women

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 17 to April 30.

Women in Afghanistan vote in the presidential elections in Kabul.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

February 8, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
AFRICOM to Stay in Stuttgart

The Department of Defense announced on Feb 5 that the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) headquarters will remain in Stuttgart, Germany. According to Stars and Stripes, the decision to stay in Germany ra…

Kampala, Uganda U.S. General Carter F. Ham, Commander of the U.S. Africa Command addresses a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Uganda's capital Kampala, May 11, 2011. The general said that Uganda has been a key partner in advancing efforts to resolve conflicts across the content especially in its peacekeeping efforts in Somalia where the U.S. government offers logistical and training support for Uganda and Burundian troops totalling more than $185 million.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition