September 13, 2018
Sub-Saharan AfricaThe Pentagon plans to withdraw its special operations forces in Africa, but major cutbacks could threaten recent efforts to counter terrorism threats across the region.
June 27, 2018
MexicoAndres Manuel Lopez Obrador will likely become Mexico’s next president at a time of mounting concern over corruption and violence, but his reform plans are hazy.
December 1, 2017
YemenAverting famine will require Saudi Arabia to permit the resumption of commercial shipping of food and fuel to the besieged country.
May 25, 2018
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and DisarmamentThe 1986 meeting in Iceland between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was like none other. It offers helpful context for a potential U.S.-North Korea arms control summi…
April 18, 2018
CubaMiguel Diaz-Canel, set to replace Raul Castro as president of Cuba after sixty years of Castro rule, will be faced with the challenges of implementing economic reform and sidestepping regional isolat…
November 6, 2017
NigerAn attack on Green Berets in southwest Niger has reignited a debate over U.S. policy in the region that stretches back decades.
September 29, 2017
SpainSpain’s effort to block Catalonia’s referendum on independence may push more Catalan voters to support it.
August 29, 2017
United StatesProtests over the removal of Confederate monuments show that the U.S. Civil War’s emancipatory purpose remains contested a century and a half later.
August 16, 2017
Radicalization and ExtremismArmed protests in Charlottesville highlight how the U.S. government has long devoted insufficient resources toward countering domestic far-right movements.
July 26, 2017
VenezuelaPresident Nicolas Maduro has neither the desire nor the capacity to institute the market reforms and debt restructuring needed to revive Venezuela’s sinking economy, says economist Ricardo Hausmann.