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February 3, 2016

Wars and Conflict
Nigeria’s 2016 Budget Continues Use of Secretive ‘Security Votes’

In a post originally published on African Arguments, CFR International Affairs Fellow Matthew Page explains that despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s anticorruption progress, the government’s new bud…

June 20, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya: Violence Coopted by Political Rivalries

This is a guest post by Amanda Roth, volunteer intern for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa program. She is a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affair…

A resident holds a placard as he participates in a protest against the recent attack by unidentified gunmen in the coastal Kenyan town of Mpeketoni, June 17, 2014. (Joseph Okanga/Courtesy Reuters)

September 19, 2011

China
CFR’s Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy

Container ship sails beneath Golden Gate Bridge en route to port in California (Robert Galbraith/Courtesy Reuters). Today the Council on Foreign Relations is releasing its independent Task Force rep…

CFR’s Task Force on U.S. Trade and Investment Policy

November 22, 2013

China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of November 22, 2013

Will Piekos and Darcie Draudt look at the top five stories in Asia this week. 1. Bloomberg dogged by self-censorship questions. Bloomberg News reporter Michael Forsythe, who worked on an unpublished…

Paramilitary policemen walk past Erdaoqiao Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region on November 17, 2013 (Rooney Chen).

July 7, 2011

United States
A Primer on Air Power

A F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet takes part in a flying display during the 49th Paris Air Show at the Le Bourget airport near Paris June 26, 2011. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes The military intervention…

A Primer on Air Power