Can the once-thriving coffee sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) be revived? An increasing number of players seem to think so, including donors, coffee companies, the Congolese government, and many thousands of farmers. Their initial investments, centered on the...

In the early hours of Wednesday, a military spokesman in combat fatigues announced on Zimbabwean state television that President Robert Mugabe and his family were “safe and sound” in custody, and that a military intervention had been staged to target the “criminals”...

The United States seems to be adjusting the military half of its strategy in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan to the point where it can be successful. The estimates of the overall patterns in global terrorism in the semi-official START data base continue to rise, but the U.S....

If there were a global siren to signal that a humanitarian crisis has tipped over the threshold to a catastrophic scale, it would be ringing loudly right now. Today, 20.7 million people are starving or at...

The applications for blockchain technology are expanding at breakneck pace. Most famously known as the underlying architecture for Bitcoin and valued for the way it transparently, accessibly, and securely records information, blockchains are rapidly being adopted beyond the...

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Welcome to the August 2017 newsletter from the Global Health Policy 

Africa featured prominently on the agenda of the annual summit of the Group of Twenty (G20), held July 7–8 in Hamburg, Germany. Led by an initiative of the German chair, the heads of state of 20 of the world’s leading economies agreed on the establishment of a G20...

In a world of rising authoritarianism, Kenya stands out as a democratic experiment worthy of U.S. and international support. Kenyans voted by a large margin in 2010 for a new constitution embracing liberal democratic values and widely guaranteeing individual freedoms....

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Welcome to the June 2017 newsletter from the Global Health Policy Center (GHPC) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)! We invite you to catch up on our latest...

Today is Yom HaShoah, the start of the Week of Remembrance of the Holocaust. It also should be a time of clarity and commitment to do all in our power to prevent a recurrence of that horrific evil and other crimes against humanity. Each year at this time, I recall my visits...

Foreign aid has long been seen as the stepchild of U.S. national security. Polls show that most Americans have a grossly exaggerated picture of the size of the U.S. foreign aid effort, and no idea of where it actually goes, or what its purpose is. For many Americans, foreign...