Yale Journal of International Affairs interviews Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer and the former first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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By Masoud Movahed
With thousands of engineers designing national vehicles, the auto industry is the second largest sector in the economy outside of oil and offers a huge chunk of employment opportunity to Iran’s young population.
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By Michael Reed Hurtado
The Colombian government says that security sector reform is off-limits at the peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The government may have its reasons, but that should not leave security sector reform off-limits for Colombian citizenry and the international community.
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By Goitom Gebreluel and Kjetil Tronvoll
Considering the unique history of colonialism and artificially created nation-states in Africa, the incidences of secession have been surprisingly few. Through a comparative analysis of Eritrea, Somaliland, and South Sudan, this article aims to account for post-secession variations in fragility, as well as contextualize the challenges South Sudan is currently facing.
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By Ali Wyne
In discussions of America’s present and prospects, few notions are as common as that of “two Americas”: the haves and have-nots, the red states and blue states, and so forth. One might add another pair to the list: the resurgent and the dysfunctional.
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By Jeff Roquen
At the end of the Cold War a quarter of a century ago, a little-known army officer – Omar al-Bashir – conducted a coup d’etat in Sudan.
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By Rachel Bergenfield & Erik Heinonen
The U.S. Farm Bill, signed into law on 7 February, includes crucial, overdue reforms to food aid policy.
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By Will Hickey
The Indonesian Rupiah’s recent slump to 12,300 to the dollar was entirely predictable.
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By Masoud Movahed
Iran’s historic nuclear deal with six major world powers was hailed by all parties involved in the negotiating table
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By Jeff Roquen
Ten years ago, tales of rape and murder began to leak out of Sudan and into the wider world. A campaign of terror upon the peoples of Darfur, in western Sudan, had been launched by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Janjaweed militia.
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By Liram Stenzler-Koblentz
On June 30, 2013, two years after the first Egyptian revolution had ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak, the protesters returned to Tahrir Square. This time they called for the resignation of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and first civilian president.
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By Caterina Valero
Now is a time of hope in Latin America. Despite the global economic recession, Latin America has sustained an average economic growth rate of more than three percent since 2004.
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By Marc Grossman
The purpose of this article is to describe how, building on the foundations laid in 2009 and 2010 and validating the whole of government approach, the SRAP team pursued a diplomatic campaign to support U.S. objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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By Amitai Etzioni
The start of a second Obama administration provides an opportunity for civilian authorities to live up to their obligations in this matter and to conduct a proper review of the United States’ China strategy and the military’s role in it.
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By Yangmo Ku
To what extent could North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-un follow the path of economic reform that Deng Xiaoping adopted in China starting in the late 1970s? This article analyzes the role of individual leadership, domestic context, and systemic considerations to determine whether or not China’s past is applicable to North Korea’s present. This comparative study shows that the prospect for economic reform in North Korea is not very promising.
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By Salar Ghahramani
International financial relations have largely been defined by cross-border trade, foreign direct investments, and global banking relations. This paper demonstrates that another activity, sovereign investments by special vehicles known as sovereign wealth funds, is rapidly redefining the traditional paradigms, providing both opportunities for further integration of the financial markets as well as posing particular challenges for policy makers.
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An interview with Paul Pillar on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the situations in Syria and Iran, the intelligence community, and what it takes to make effective policy and effective policy recommendations.
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An Interview with Andrew Bacevich
Bacevich speaks of his careers in the military and academia, the US military, and foreign policy.
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An Interview with Philip Mudd, CIA/FBI Terrorism Expert
Mudd discusses his career in government, his book Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda, and terrorism.
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An Interview with Ambassador Ryan Crocker
Crocker speaks of diplomacy and the current era of US policy.
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