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November 18, 2014

Tracking the Traffickers: The Need for Better Data

This is a guest post by Allen Grane, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. In early 2014, an organization known as Elephants Without Borders began a project…

Lone Bull Elephant

December 1, 2014

International Organizations
UN Committee Adopts Resolution on Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations.  On November 25, 2014, the third committee of the UN General Assembly adopte…

Dilma Rouseff Brazil Right to Privacy  Cyber CFR

April 17, 2012

Education
Visas and Travel: One Step Forward, Two to Go

Large, bureaucracies are notoriously difficult to move, but when they do it can sometimes happen with extraordinary speed. Consider what has happened on U.S. visa processing over the past six months …

President Obama speaking in front of Cinderella's Castle at Disney World's Magic Kingdom on January 19, 2012 (Kevin Lamarque/Courtesy Reuters).

October 10, 2013

Brazil
Brazil’s Pre-Salt Oil Six Years Later

In 2007, Petrobras engineers struck black gold, discovering vast oil reserves in the deep-water off the Brazilian coast and permanently altering not only Brazil’s energy landscape but the country’s e…

petrobras - LAM

July 1, 2015

Cybersecurity
The Brazil-U.S. Cyber Relationship Is Back on Track

Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s was in Washington D.C. this week to mee…

Obama Rousseff Net Politics Cyber CFR