The Great Divide

America’s “red/blue” political divide is real, but both its novelty and significance are overstated.

Toolbox: Leveraging the New IHR

America needs to lead the world in leveraging the revised International Health Regulations to guard against pandemics.

Down for the Count, Again

Declinism is an old American tradition, with a miserable track record. And it’s back.

A Letter from San‘a
Well Gone Dry

Yemen is running out of oil and water, and a new front in the War on Terror may be emerging.

Fueled Again?

The United States has plenty of ways to eliminate its dependency on imported oil. We’d better use them fast.

Darfur and African State-Building

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]

Darfur and African State-Building

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]

What Happened to the Orange Revolution?

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal that had a role in publishing a new Russian edition of my book Trust.  Viktor […]

What Happened to the Orange Revolution?

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal that had a role in publishing a new Russian edition of my book Trust. Viktor […]

The Clash of Cultures and American Hegemony

This is a link to the presentation I gave to a plenary panel “The Clash of Cultures and American Hegemony” (this wasn’t my title) at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia on Sept. 1.  Sam Huntington was supposed to be on the panel but was not able to participate; other panelists were […]

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