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June 25, 2012
United States
Of Course We Can’t Have It All
Last week, two very different yet equally fascinating publications were released about how we choose to spend our time. One was based on the personal experiences of a prominent international relation…
December 16, 2021
Climate Change
Will the World Meet the Challenge of Climate Change?
Richard Haass and economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, discuss the realities of climate change as well as renewable energy, carbon…
March 2, 2020
Afghanistan War
The Riskiness of the U.S. Deal to Leave Afghanistan
The deal signed by U.S. and Taliban officials is dangerously short on levers to prevent a Taliban takeover, but there are still ways Washington can sustain the government in Kabul.
August 25, 2015
Middle East and North Africa
"Pantomime of Outrage:" Obama and Syria
I’ve called attention to the writings on Syria of Amb. Fred Hof in several blog posts (here’s one). Hof, after a career in the U.S. Army, became the State Department’s resident expert on Syria and th…
September 19, 2017
Myanmar
Why Aung San Suu Kyi Mostly Ignores the Rakhine Crisis
Myanmar is essentially run by one of the world’s most lauded humanitarians. Yet since her party took power last year, Aung San Suu Kyi—the country’s de facto leader, though not its official president…
