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August 21, 2012

Dog Days

I won’t be blogging for the next week or so. I’m unplugged and out of touch. Enjoy the "dog days" of August. I’ll be reading Simon Reeve’s One Day in September.  It seems topical...

DogDays

April 30, 2008

Grand Strategy
In the May/June 2008 Issue of Foreign Affairs

May/June 2008 Issue:Is the America Era Over?: Essays by Richard N. Haass and Fareed Zakaria"The Price of the Surge," by Steven Simon"Beyond Darfur," Andrew S. Natsios"The Trouble With Congo," by Séve…

March 6, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Uganda: Miniskirt Ban

This is a guest post by Brooke Bocast, a PhD candidate in anthropology at Temple University and a visiting predoctoral fellow at Northwestern University. She is currently writing her doctoral dissert…

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni signs an anti-homosexual bill into law at the state house in Entebbe, 36 km (22 miles) south west of capital Kampala February 24, 2014.

February 10, 2014

China
Getting at the Heart of China’s Resource Quest

It all begins with courtship. The Chinese president arrives in the resource-rich country to woo the local leader with a large entourage of government and state-owned enterprise officials, bearing gif…

A worker works at the Lauzoua manganese mine, supported by investment from the China National Geological and Mining Corporation, in the Ivory Coast on December 4, 2013. (Theirry Gouegnon/Courtesy Reuters)

September 9, 2011

Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Weekend Reading: Best 9/11 Related Books

  New York skyline before September 11, 2001 Attack (Enrique Shore/Courtesy Reuters)   The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Trapped in the War on Terror by Ian S. Lustick Message t…

Weekend Reading: Best 9/11 Related Books