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June 6, 2014
Russia
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of June 6, 2014
Ashlyn Anderson, Lauren Dickey, Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia today. 1. Thousands protest on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tiananm…
April 22, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
A Very Bad Week for Nigeria
Below is the Weekly Update for April 12-17 from the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST). It can also be found here. Last week was Holy Week and Passover. It was probably the worst week for violence and c…
April 25, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
United Nations: Harsh Realities and Hard Lessons
This is a guest post by Alex Dick-Godfrey, program coordinator, Studies administration for the Council on Foreign Relations Studies Program. International peacekeeping missions in Sudan and South Su…
March 1, 2012
United States
Syria: The Agonies of Intervention
Yesterday I posted on the limits of diplomacy in Syria given all of the incentives for Bashar al Assad to fight on. The question then is what to do about it. I take the criticisms of intervention f…
September 30, 2008
Financial Markets
A new reason to be bullish on America: It is (almost) Sweden
A Merrill Lynch strategist seems to have come up with a new reason to buy stocks: The US isn’t far from adopting the “Swedish” approach to managing a financial crisis – and that didn’t turn out to …
March 19, 2020
Oil and Petroleum Products
Oil Price War: Is U.S. Shale The First To Blink?
As the oil price war continues, markets are hanging on every word coming from Washington, Moscow and Riyadh, amid signs that diplomacy could be afoot. A statement by the Kremlin’s presidential spokes…
