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Can Macron’s "Fire and Fury" Lead a Renaissance for Europe?

October 5, 2017
Over the past decade, France as Europe’s third largest economy has not pursued an ambitious agenda as a member of the European Union. Likewise, resistance to political reforms has led to tepid economic growth hovering around 1 percent with only a few countries faring worse. President Emmanuel...

Trump’s Impeachment: What Comes Next?

October 3, 2019
Impeachment is the first step in a long constitutional process that could lead to US President Donald Trump’s removal from office. “No American president has been removed through impeachment,” explains Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law with Yale Law School. “Only two US...

Chasing Disaster: The Risks of Fast, Furious or Fake News

September 19, 2017
Disasters no longer seem like rare events with the internet and smartphones delivering instant, compelling stories for a global audience that is curious, observant and active on social media. Experiencing disaster, then being in the public eye, can be traumatic, and so Britain’s National Health...

The Challenge of Getting Russia Right

April 4, 2017
A diplomat for Napoleon Bonaparte once cautioned that Russia’s adversaries must avoid underestimating the country’s capabilities or overreacting. With that warning in mind, Thomas Graham, a senior fellow with the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, analyzes the US approach that underestimated...

New Coalition in Gulf May Not Fare as Well as Old

November 21, 2019
Representatives from Australia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, Albania and the United States opened a command center in Bahrain November 7, launching Operation Sentinel, a security initiative for protecting the Strait of Hormuz. The operation is a response to...

North Korea's Missile Trade Helps Fund Its Nuclear Program

May 5, 2003
A New York Times article on May 5 says that “tacitly acknowledging that North Korea may not be deterred from producing plutonium for nuclear weapons, President Bush is now trying to marshal international support for preventing the country from exporting nuclear material.” While preventing the...

Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries

December 16, 2002
In 1998, 39 pharmaceutical companies filed a lawsuit against South Africa. They hoped to stop the government from producing the generic drugs that would have made treatment affordable for the country's AIDS victims. A public outcry ensued, and critics accused pharmaceutical companies of...

Survey: Increasing Internet Censorship

June 18, 2007
Government censorship is growing in sophistication, according to a survey of internet filtering practices in 41 nations. Such censorship is “becoming more pervasive and more subtle over time, often disguised as network errors,” warns Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and...
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