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Middle East Democracy Promotion is Not a One-way Street

The U.S. administration is under pressure to revive democracy promotion efforts in the ...

Manmohan Singh Visits Washington: Sustaining U.S.–Indian Cooperation Amid Differences

When India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comes to Washington for the Obama administra...

Restoring the NPT: Essential Steps for 2010

Conventional wisdom states that the nonproliferation regime is on the verge of collapse...

Fixing a Failed Strategy in Aghanistan

The failure of the U.S. and British strategy as demonstrated by the summer 2009 offensi...

Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality

Contemporary Russia is a country of paradoxes. The post-communist transition has been m...

U.S.–India 3.0: Cave! Hic Dragones

On the eve of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first state visit to Washington si...

Revitalizing U.S. Democracy Assistance: The Challenge of USAID

Democracy is largely stagnant in the world and a growing number of governments exhibit ...

Losing the Caucasus

“Reliably unstable” is probably the best way to describe the situation in the North Cau...

Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad

Promoting the rule of law has become a major part of Western efforts to spread democrac...

Managing Global Issues: Lessons Learned

Globalization is spotlighting problems that no single country, no pair of countries, no...

WTO Reform: The Time to Start Is Now

The languishing Doha Round of global trade talks elicits questions about the limitation...

Yemen: Avoiding a Downward Spiral

A confluence of looming challenges—economic ruin, an emerging water shortage, violent e...

Dealing With Iran: The Power of Legitimacy

The first phase of renewed international negotiations with Iran made unexpected progres...

The Impact of the Doha Round on Kenya

Kenya’s economy faces significant challenges. As in the past, trade will be a major fa...

The Third Force: The Rise of Transnational Civil Society

From the landmines campaign to the Seattle protests against the WTO to the World Commis...

Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East

The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new...

Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military

Husain Haqqani’s Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military analyzes the origins of the rela...

Putin's Russia (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Combating terrorism, securing weapons of mass destruction, resolving regional conflicts...

Central Asia's Second Chance

Central Asia's first decade of independence was disappointing for those who envisioned ...

Getting to Pluralism: Political Actors in the Arab World

Pluralism in the Arab world has not yet matured into functional democratic politics. Wh...