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October 4, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
The African Union's Conflict Management Capabilities

Overview In this Working Paper, Paul D. Williams clarifies how Africa's strategic importance to the United States has increased substantially over the past decade. In particular, the continent is …

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December 22, 2004

One more point on Martin Wolf

It is a simple point, but an important one. Wolf says the United States would be fine if it reduced its current account deficit from 6% of GDP to 3% of GDP. External debt to GDP then stabilizes at …

May 30, 2012

Global
How Globalization Affects Transnational Crime

With drug legalization increasingly debated by world leaders, CFR’s Stewart Patrick and Phil Williams of the University of Pittsburgh discuss the explosion of transnational crime in a globalized worl…

May 17, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cyber Week in Review: May 16, 2024

Four Senators release AI Policy Roadmap; U.S. and partners unveil data-sharing agreement; Frank McCourt bids for TikTok; Biden passes new tariffs on Chinese tech; FBI seizes cybercrime marketplace.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is flanked by Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Senator Todd Young (R-IN) as he addresses a press conference during a break in a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators at the U.S. Capitol on September 13, 2023

May 21, 2012

Politics and Government
Review: ’The Dictator’s Learning Curve’ by William Dobson

The ongoing uprisings in the Arab world, as well as transformations in Myanmar and several other closed countries, have led to predictions that we are in the beginnings of a global Fourth Wave of dem…

In his new book, Dobson argues the Chinese Communist Party is one of several New Age autocratic regimes that justify oppressive rule with economic success. Pictured: Chinese President Hu Jintao. (Jason Lee/Courtesy Reuters)

November 6, 2013

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Looking Past the Inbox: Report of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations

Every year, it seems, a new group of eminences grises issues a report deploring the state of the world and purporting to offer a roadmap out of our predicament. These documents tend to be short on im…

WTO Director-General Lamy looks on during his Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur award ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris