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April 6, 2016

Brazil
Five Things Washington Should Do to Help Latin America Curb Corruption

This is a guest blog post by Dr. Richard Messick, an anticorruption specialist. It is based on a CFR roundtable discussion on March 24 hosted by Matthew M. Taylor, adjunct senior fellow for Latin Ame…

Paraguayan prosecutors Hernan Galeano (C), Federico Espinoza (center, R) and Chief Prosecutor Roberto Zacarias hold a news conference in Asuncion, January 8, 2016. Paraguayan state prosecutors on Thursday raided the headquarters of South American soccer confederation CONMEBOL after a request for cooperation from U.S. justice officials probing corruption inside world soccer, the prosecution office said (Jorge Adorno/Reuters).

September 9, 2016

North Korea
North Korea’s Fifth Nuclear Test and the International Response

North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test (second in 2016) on September 9, 2016, the sixty-eighth anniversary of the country’s founding. North Korea claimed the test would enable it to build a nuc…

Ryoo Yong-gyu, Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring Division Director, points at where seismic waves observed in South Korea came from, during a media briefing at Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul

December 11, 2012

Thailand
Abhisit, Suthep Charged for 2010 Bangkok Violence

This past week, the Thai Department of Special Investigation (DSI) charged former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and former deputy prime minister Suthep Thaugsuban for authorizing the shooting and …

Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva arrives at the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Bangkok.

June 10, 2013

Turkey
How Europe Can Save Turkey

This article was originally published in the Washington Post on Friday, June 7, 2013. In the past five years, Turkey has veered from what was once a promising path of liberal democracy — and the Eur…

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