Afghan President Hamid Karzai recently returned from a four-day visit to New Delhi, his fifth such visit in three years, his thirteenth during his tenure as president.  India was also the first country with which Afghanistan signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement, in...

Since 1990, the United Nations has annually marked International Migrants Day on December 18, in an effort to promote a dialogue on the opportunities and challenges simultaneously posed by and facing migrant populations. Globally, driven by opportunity, necessity, and too...

This report outlines the status of biotechnology regulatory structures in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, with a focus on regulation of genetically modified (GM) crops.

Private finance has become, and will remain, the central defining channel for U.S. global development engagement. In 2000, U.S. private flows to developing countries were roughly equal to official development assistance (ODA). Today, U.S. private flows ($100 billion-150...

On January 1, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will celebrate its twentieth anniversary.

The agreement, which was signed on December 17, 1992 and entered into force on January 1, 1994, was conceived of as an effort to boost cross-border trade, ...

This document analyzes and provides a commentary on the current political environment in Chile in the lead-up to the second round of this year’s presidential elections

This report from the CSIS Americas Program provides a detailed look at the challenges the Colombian government confronts as it moves from providing security to developing rural areas that were previously conflict zones.

The United Nations Security Council has authorized African Union peacekeepers, bolstered by French troops, to use force to protect civilians and restore order in the Central African Republic (CAR). CAR has been in chaos since a coalition of rebel groups toppled President...

In the region more widely, it is time to change U.S. policy with the adequate imagination and ambition required of any response to the Arab uprisings. But policymakers need a strategy they can realistically implement within very palpable economic and political constraints....

Because Abe need not face another national election until summer 2016, Japan may finally have a stable government for the first time in almost a decade. But will the July 2013 electoral victory embolden him to pursue his nationalist agenda, or will he remain moderate and...