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July 2, 2012

Politics and Government
Hola, Enrique Peña Nieto: President-Elect of Mexico

Enrique Peña Nieto had a very good weekend. While Americans were grumbling about record-breaking heat and residents of Washington, D.C., were learning to live without air conditioning because powerfu…

lindsay pena nieto 2012 07-02

June 23, 2017

U.S. Foreign Policy
You Might Have Missed: Academic Journals VI

This is the sixth blog post in this series. The previous five were published in February, July, and October 2015, and January and May 2016, and highlight earlier academic findings. This post was coau…

woman looks into a book

October 15, 2014

International Organizations
Could the BRICS Bank Make China More Responsible?

Below is a guest post by Isabella Bennett, assistant director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program. Last weekend’s World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting…

Leaders of the BRICS countries—Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and South African President Jacob Zuma—pose during the BRICS summit in Fortaleza, Brazil, on July 15, 2014.

August 9, 2012

Politics and Government
The World Next Week: Clinton Visits Turkey, OIC Meets in Mecca, Climate Changes, and Puerto Rico Votes

The World Next Week podcast is up. Robert McMahon gave up his seat this week so that Toni Johnson and I could discuss Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Turkey; the Organization of Islamic…

Hillary Clinton arrives in Istanbul in June for a "Friends of Syria" meeting.  (Saul Loeb/courtesy Reuters)

December 27, 2018

United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year. 

President George H.W. Bush greets troops in Saudi Arabia during a 1990 Thanksgiving visit.