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August 27, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy
Five Movies Worth Watching About Foreign-Policy Conspiracies

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about conspiracies in the halls of power. 

Three movie posters in black frames. From left: The Manchurian Candidate (a sketch of a man, a gun, and a queen of hearts card); JFK (a man looks out from a red, white, and blue design); Kill the Messenger (a man with the U.S. Capitol Building reflected in his sunglasses).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

December 1, 2014

United States
The Federal Reserve's Stanley Fischer on Inflation and Financial Stability

Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the board of governors at the Federal Reserve System, joinsLaurence D. Fink, chairman and chief executive officer at BlackRock and member of the board of directors a…

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June 7, 2023

Nigeria
Not Their President

For the first time since the country’s return to civil rule in 1999, Nigerian Pentecostals find themselves on the outside looking in.

A Nigerian military helicopter is captured in the air with a Nigerian flag hanging from the bottom during the inauguration of Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

May 30, 2023

Nigeria
Tinubu’s Turn

Up against the wall, Tinubu will need his famed political savvy—and more—to stanch rising discontent in Nigeria.   

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu waves to a crowd on a vehicle after his inauguration as president.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

August 26, 2021

Nigeria
Nigeria Releases Three Israelis and a Nigerian Jew Accused of Separatism

Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) in July arrested three Israeli filmmakers and their Nigerian liaison. Following apparent, unpublicized diplomatic intervention, the three Israelis were released; none were ever charged after eighteen days in jail. Their Nigerian liaison was held an additional eleven days before she was released, also never having been charged.

A map of Nigeria's major ethnic groups.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition