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December 3, 2010

HBO History Makers: Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state and author of the new book, Condoleezza Rice:  A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, stopped by CFR’s New York headquarters today to …

HBO History Makers: Condoleezza Rice

October 16, 2014

Development
Truly Sustainable Development Calls for Systemic Responses

Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is by Alicia Ely Yamin, lecturer on …

Orphans wait to be given snacks at the Mphandula Childcare Center at Namitete, outside Lilongwe, Malawi, April 2008 (Courtesy Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko).

October 10, 2013

Wars and Conflict
Violence Escalating in Mali

On September 30, I posted “Mali and Tuaregs: Deja Vu All over Again?” The focus was on the breakdown of a peace process between the Malian government and three separatist Tuareg groups. Since then, …

National guardsmen arrive to secure the Grand Mosque before Eid-al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan in Bamako August 8, 2013.

January 10, 2020

Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: Elizabeth Warren Endorses the USMCA

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: Elizabeth Warren says she will vote for NAFTA’s replacement, the candidates tout Congress’s war po…

Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks to a crowd in Davenport, Iowa, on January 5. Daniel Acker/Reuters

May 14, 2013

Middle East and North Africa
Sports, Gender Equality, and Development

As my colleague Isobel Coleman wrote last week, Saudi Arabia has just leaped a small hurdle towards gender equality: announcing last week that it will allow female athletics in private schools. Until…

saudi women's sports