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December 6, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nelson Mandela and American Hopes

In an Expert’s Brief I published yesterday, I reflected on Nelson Mandela’s achievements as the father of the democratic, non-racial South Africa that replaced the odious and repressive apartheid sta…

President Nelson Mandela will celebrate his 80th birthday on July 18.

January 18, 2022

United States
President Biden’s First Year, With Richard Haass

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to assess how the Biden administration has handled foreign policy in its first year in office.

Podcast U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition COVID-19 advisory board on November 09, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware.

January 30, 2007

Iraq
A Conversation with Senator Bill Nelson

As Syria expands its influence in the Middle East through relationships with Iran and Hezbollah, the Bush Administration has publicly criticized it for undermining democratic reform in the region. Af…

June 28, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
President Obama in Africa: Nelson Mandela’s Illness

President Obama met Nelson Mandela in 2005, when he was a senator from Illinois and speaks of him with glowing terms. Many Africans and Americans had hoped that the president’s trip to Africa would p…

Wellwishers cast shadows in front of portraits of Nelson Mandela (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama outside the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital, where the ailing former South African President is being treated, in Pretoria June 28, 2013.

February 11, 2021

State and Local Governments (U.S.)
A Conversation With CFR President Richard N. Haass

CFR President Richard N. Haass discusses the domestic and foreign policy challenges facing the United States and their relevance to state and local agendas.

Play U.S. Capitol Police officers stand in front of an American flag in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.