Military intervention is not what Haiti needs. But other countries can help Haitians help themselves.
Is a Winning Solution in Sight in Haiti?
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Governance
Can We Demilitarize U.S. Policy in Africa?
The House passed a bill that sounds good, but doesn’t end Washington’s failed, militarized approach or get to root problems.
The Global Media and COVID-19
The media has helped spread panic more often than useful information.
Trump’s New (Non-Democratic) Normal
What happens when the adults in the room are scarier than the crying baby?
Obama: Into Africa
President Obama is definitely “into” Africa. Unfortunately that has translated into holding the door open for U.S. multinationals to do what outsiders have done for centuries: extract the continent’s wealth.
China in Africa: Its (Still) the Governance, Stupid
Deep inside the tropical forest of Gabon, 500 miles from the coast, China is going where no other investors dare. A Chinese consortium, led by the China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation, has won the contract to develop Gabon’s massive Belinga iron ore deposit. In return for purchasing the entire output, Chinese operators will build not only the extractive infrastructure at Belinga but a hydro-electric dam to power it, a railway to the coast, and a deepwater port north of the capital, Libreville, for exporting the ore.