In mid-September 2010, President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced a comprehensive ban on mining in three provinces of the conflict-wracked Eastern Congo.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court(ICC) in the Hague, on December 15 requested the court to issue summonses to appear against six prominent Kenyans, including cabinet ministers Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto and Henry Kosgey, and Secretary...

Key findings from national telephone survey of 702 Iranians between August 30 and Sept 7, 2010 include:

• Iranians divided on governments performance.
• Dissatisfied with economy.
• Worry over sanctions and isolation.
• Want to...

The reelection of Governor Hirokazu Nakaima in the Okinawa gubernatorial election has intensified the myopic focus on the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma as the measure by which to gauge the health of U.S.-Japan relations. Governor Nakaima, once a...

With the advent of the G2 era, the security dynamics of Northeast Asia have changed rapidly, and new security and North Korea policies are in demand. While this issue is fervently debated among policymakers and scholars, CSIS visiting fellow from the Republic of Korea (ROK)...

G2시대를 맞아 동북아지역 안보지형이 급변하면서 한반도를 둘러싼 새로운 안보전략 및 통일정책이 요구되고 있다. 이에 대한 국내외의 논의가 활발한 가운데 미국 국제전략문제연구소 (CSIS)에서 직무훈련...

Given that the Pakistani government’s handling of the Kashmir earthquake was somewhat of a highpoint in the context of a rather dismal national governance record, there was initial hope, however cautious, that the disaster recovery process in Pakistan might broaden...

As North Korea and Iran have recently demonstrated, the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the Safeguards Regime have not been completely effective in preventing the diversion of nuclear technology for military purposes by...

Shortly after entering the Oval Office for the first time in January 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his top foreign policy aides – including National Security Advisor Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Deputy National Security Advisor David Aaron –were...

There are times to be polite about a dismal bureaucratic failure. Wartime is not one of them. The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) has many useful ideas but it fails to address the legacy of nearly a decade of failure on the part of the State...

This week, as most of us are finishing up year-end business or holiday shopping, the U.S. Senate may take the remaining votes on the new START treaty that limits U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons. The treaty, which was signed in April of this year, limits...

The authors of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review make a strong case for conducting twenty-first-century statecraft, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defines as “seeking to connect the private and civic sectors with America’s foreign...