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Containing the Fire in Syria

July 23, 2013
The urge to do something, anything, to stem the bloodshed in Syria is intense. Ryan Crocker served as US ambassador to six countries including Syria, 1998 to 2001. Now a Kissinger senior fellow at Yale University, he reviews the history and explains how the civil war in Syria began well before the...

An Interview with Thomas L. Friedman

February 23, 2006
New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman talks about the next edition and updates to his bestselling book, "The World Is Flat," with Nayan Chanda, editor of YaleGlobal Online. A full transcript of their conversation follows.

What Trump’s Foreign Policy Ignores

August 8, 2017
Critics accuse the Trump administration of making ill-advised or contradictory decisions about crises in the Middle East involving countries from Qatar to Israel as well as non-state actors such as the Islamic State. Louis René Beres, professor of international law, argues that such difficulties...

A Call for Intellect and Courage

April 7, 2020
The world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, with so many economic and security ramifications, and there is longing for leaders who display courage, the quality that guarantees all others, as suggested by Winston Churchill in 1931. “Today's Trump supporters think of themselves as the ones with...

Outsourcing Debate - Part I

February 25, 2004
The steady outflow of jobs, especially white-collar ones from the US is emerging as a major issue in the US. In part one of our three-part series on the outsourcing debate two scholars explain the reasons. In recent years, US manufacturing jobs have declined as corporations looked for cheap labor...

Disorder and Disease Wins in Yemen

May 28, 2020
Saudi Arabia’ confronts multiple challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic, a decline in oil prices and flailing intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. The civil war began in 2014, and Saudi Arabia organized a coalition to intervene the next year, soon after Mohammed bin Salman became defense...

Blood Spilled on China-India Border: Diplomat

June 17, 2020
A standoff punctuated with frequent clashes in recent weeks along the Line of Actual Control turned violent with the death of 20 Indian soldiers in Galwan Valley in Ladakh. China did not release casualty figures. Indian sources suggested as many as 40 Chinese died in brutal hand-to-hand combat that...

Rights and Policies on Gender and Identity

July 18, 2019
Acceptance of the LGBT community that encompasses lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered people and queer expanded quickly during this century. But acceptance is not universal, and regional variance on policies and rights is stark. “Broad protections against discrimination based on sexual...
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