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Can Global Supply Chains Be Accountable?

May 16, 2013
A factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 workers may be a wakeup call for apparel manufacturers, retailers and consumers. More than 90 percent of US apparel is made outside the country, and the unending quest for low prices and profits encourages crowded factories with brutal...

Irresponsible Superpowers Must Cooperate

May 5, 2020
Governments that endured the SARS pandemic in 2003 were generally more prepared for Covid-19. Such pandemics emerge with little warning, challenging a global multilateral system largely structured around collective security and trade. Both diseases – linked with globalization, a complex phenomenon...

Desperate Millions Flee Poverty, Persecution and Inequality

June 11, 2015
The world confronts an immigration challenge as vast numbers flee conflict and religious persecution in the Middle East and South Asia along with stark poverty in Africa and South America. The world has 50 million forcibly displaced people, and millions more leave their homelands in search of...

Russia Disrupts Democracies With New Propaganda Tricks

September 21, 2017
The United States may have declared victory in the Cold War after the Soviet Union’s fall, but Russia's President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, did not give up trying to disrupt democracies. Russia has invested in waging a propaganda war with “data hacking, denial-of-service attacks,...

The Dragon’s Spear: China’s Asymmetric Strategy

October 17, 2013
As the world’s leading military powers invent new weapons systems, other nations develop countermeasures. “China has no illusions about its military inferiority via-à-vis the United States and knows that the status is likely to endure for at least two decades,” explains security analyst Loro Horta...

Hope for Africa During Covid-19 Pandemic

May 26, 2020
With the rapid spread of Covid-19, analysts feared the worst for Africa on both health and economic fronts. Africa can be resilient, maintains Eric Ekobor-Ackah Mochiah, 2019-20 Fox International Fellow at Yale University and a doctoral candidate at the Economics Department of University of Ghana....

Israel Tries to Expand Power in Africa

April 10, 2018
Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been intent on nurturing diplomatic ties with sub-Saharan African nations. He was the first Israeli prime minister in three decades to travel to Africa and also attended the Kenyan president’s inauguration and a summit of West African states. About...

Saudi Arabia Plays Trump on Iran to Tilt Middle East Balance

May 25, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s royalty went all out in greeting US President Donald Trump with pomp and circumstance, exaggerating the visit as “historic” and a “landmark event.” The Trump team more aptly describes relations as going through a reset: Trump has backed away from his campaign criticism of the...
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