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December 27, 2012

Global
Ten World Leaders Who Died in 2012

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

Journalists watch workers install some of the 288 Waterford crystals on the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball in New York (Mike Segar/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

May 6, 2019

India
Sustainability, Urban Concerns, and the Indian Elections

General elections for India’s lower house of parliament began on April 11 and will last through May 19, with all ballots counted on May 23. This is the world’s largest democratic exercise. I had the …

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Blog Post by Alyssa Ayres Asia Unbound

September 27, 2008

Monetary Policy
It seems like so long ago ... documenting the role foreign central banks played in the US decision to backstop the Agencies

It is hard to believe that only three week have passed since the US government effectively took over the Agencies. Friday’s Wall Street Journal provided something of a post-mortem. And it sure se…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

August 11, 2011

Elections and Voting
Five Foreign Policy Questions for Tonight’s GOP Presidential Debate

A cornfield in Atalissa, Iowa. (Jessica Rinaldi/courtesy Reuters) Republican presidential candidates are gathering tonight in Ames, Iowa for their third debate. Jon Huntsman, who hadn’t yet joined t…

A cornfield is pictured in Atalissa, Iowa.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

June 5, 2015

The Danger of False Narratives: Al-Shabaab’s Faux Ivory Trade

This is a guest post by Jessica L. Anderson, a PhD student in political science at the George Washington University. Elephants are being slaughtered and their tusks sold, in order to finance deadly …

Tusks_Jessica Blog
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition