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December 17, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
An Optimistic Review of Africa in 2013

Simon Allison published an article on December 15 in South Africa’s Daily Maverick entitled "Africa for Optimists: 2013 in Review." He picks five of the “most encouraging” African stories from 2013 a…

Ships lie at anchor outside the harbour at Durban, South Africa as a full moon rises on Boxing Day December 26, 2004.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

November 12, 2019

Election 2020
The President's Inbox: Should the United States Maintain Maximum Pressure on Iran?

Each week between now and the Iowa caucuses, I’m talking with two experts with differing views on how the United States should handle a foreign policy challenge it faces. These special episodes are p…

A line of Iranian flags wave in a square in Tehran.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

July 1, 2010

China
A Response to “Asia Alone”

Jim Young/courtesy Reuters In Liz Economy’s assessment of Simon Tay’s new book Asia Alone, she writes that Tay argues that the United States should accept ASEAN as a full partner in a more multilate…

U.S. President Obama shakes hands with Thailand’s PM Abhisit after the ASEAN-US Leaders Meeting at the APEC Summit in Singapore
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

November 28, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
New From CFR: John Campbell on Africa’s Outlook

Yesterday on his blog, CFR senior fellow John Campbell reviewed a piece by Simon Freemantle of Standard Bank Research on “whether the Africa glass is half full or half empty.” As Campbell writes: I …

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Blog Post by Development Channel Staff Development Channel

July 21, 2011

Fossil Fuels
Oil and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Nutshell

The State Department yesterday released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXV, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973 (PDF). Oil, of course, played a central role in that conflict…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate