In its National Security Strategy (NSS) released on December 18, 2017, the Trump administration dedicates one of four pillars to “[Advancing] American Influence.” The NSS states...

The United States, Mexico, and Canada are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which came into force in 1994. Millions of jobs, massive cross-border production networks, and broader cooperation on fighting transnational crime are at...

A lot has changed in the Middle East and around the world in the last 15 years. A lot has happened in the United States as well. Reading President Trump’s new National Security Strategy, almost all of the emphasis is on the latter. The country would have been better served...

In the final months of 2017, the most significant advance in Russia’s relationship with Latin America was arguably the inclusion of eight Latin American teams in the 32-team field for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Russia was almost absent from media coverage of the BRICS+...

This year has ended with more gains for India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Adding to assembly election wins earlier this year in the electorally important state of

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of State are considering options for greater efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability. One option being discussed would be greater sharing—up to and including a complete merger—of human...

Sunday’s mayoral elections once again confirmed the authoritarian system that rules Venezuela. Despite the deepest man-made humanitarian crisis in the region, and the highest rates of abstention in recent Venezuelan electoral history, the regime’s party claims to have...

The debate on the role of the private sector in development is not new. The need to crowd-in private investments for global challenges was first discussed in the creation of the UK’s CDC Group in 1948 and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 1956....

The system of rules and regulations governing agricultural trade and market activity, or the enabling environment, directly affect global food security.

For the past half century, powerful trends have been shaping Mexico’s population, its economy, and its relationship to the United States. Lower birth rates and freer markets have led to a sustained drop in Mexicans moving north to find work, developments that will reshape...

The Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) system—which includes the World Bank and the regional development banks (i.e., the Asian Development Bank [ADB], the Inter-American Development Bank [IDB], and the African Development Bank [AfDB], among others)—is critical to...