Hunger is getting worse, not better, around the globe. The pandemic didn’t help. Kit Evans and Kelly M. McFarland - September 22, 2021 Production and distribution systems haven’t kept pace with new threats, a new report finds.
5 things to know about the instability in eastern Congo Robert U. Nagel and Kate Fin - June 10, 2021 Young Congolese want the government to step up against the increasing militant violence.
International relations scholar Nuno Monteiro asked and answered the big questions about real-world politics Sebastian Rosato, David Edelstein, and Alexandre Debs - May 20, 2021 Monteiro, who passed away this month, influenced debates about U.S. dominance in the world
The U.S. is pulling out of Afghanistan. Don’t expect an al-Qaeda reboot. Daniel Byman - April 30, 2021 Here’s why the country won’t necessarily become a base for international terrorist attacks
Mike Pompeo accused China of committing ‘genocide,’ an international crime. Biden’s team agrees. Jessica Chen Weiss - January 22, 2021 This probably won’t lead to prosecutions but it will hurt China in the court of public opinion
How foreign influence efforts are targeting journalists Kelly M. McFarland and Alistair Somerville - October 29, 2020 Disinformation efforts in 2020 became even more complex.
Trump says the U.S. will pull out of the World Health Organization. China will happily fill the void. Daniel Nexon and Alexander Cooley - April 14, 2020 Trump complains that China has “total control” over the WHO, but his action will probably increase China’s influence.
Yes, Bolivia’s 2019 election was problematic. Here’s why. Irfan Nooruddin - March 8, 2020 The last 5 percent of the vote count, which favored Morales substantially, is very different from the trendline for the other 95 percent of the count.
The U.S.-India trade deal fell through. What happens now? Trevor Cloen and Irfan Nooruddin - March 5, 2020 Future negotiations will have to deal with even more controversial issues.
Sanders and Bloomberg want to redistribute wealth. Most millionaires and billionaires don’t. Marko Klašnja, Gonzalo Rivero, and Elizabeth Suhay - February 16, 2020 They think they got rich by working hard and being smart – and deserve every penny.