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...

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...

We both attended Secretary Clinton’s  presentation of the QDDR at the State Department on Wednesday morning, December  15, where she was joined on the dais by Policy Planning Director Ann-Marie  Slaughter, USAID Administrator Raj Shah, Deputy USAID...

The QDDR included three relevant sections on energy and climate change, each of which elevates the importance of the energy and climate agenda in U.S. foreign and development policy. The first is the consolidation of economic growth, energy, and environmental issues under...

The U.S. Department of State’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) is an important step in cementing the Obama administration’s food security initiative, Feed the Future, a three-year, $3.5 billion program. As outlined in the QDDR, which...

More noteworthy than the “sweeping reform” language in the U.S. Department of State’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) are its continuities with the past several administrations. For example in the section on Transforming Development...

With more than 80 percent of the global burden of disease related to water, sanitation, and hygiene, and with water scarcity projected to affect 1.8 billion people by 2025, many in the water community have been wondering what the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development...

Attempting to frame the U.S. stabilization and reconstruction experience in ways that may be useful to anticipating a post-regime North Korea is a difficult proposition. To begin with, North Korea’s profile today is markedly different from that of Iraq prior to the...

The prospect for the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and its leadership is bleak. Kim Jong Il‘s health is poor, so a succession is conceivable, albeit off unknown probability. There is little chance that the economic poverty of almost all North...

“… North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world... “ Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, NY: Spiegel and Grau, 2009, pp. 4.

“…until recent...

The firing of Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran should not be much of a surprise. There were indications of policy differences between the foreign minister and the president. Mottaki recently criticized...