The competitive self-interest of countries like China do not provide reliable frameworks and support to combat corruption, terrorism, and other political or economic threats. The United States can add to its portfolio business competitiveness and skills development, which...

The finger pointing about transparency shouldn’t hide the fact that there is already a lot of information to assess the state of the war. The bigger challenge is understanding which indicators are most important to objectively collect, analyze, and—yes—even debate.

This study reviews how the international community has responded to state fragility and offers new ideas on how that response can be improved.

In connecting American business to such opportunities, USTDA also links American technology’s best practices and ingenuity with U.S. trade and development policy priorities.

Enterprise funds promote entrepreneurship abroad and generate a financial return that benefits the U.S. taxpayer at home. These funds indirectly advance U.S. security by promoting stability overseas by generating economic opportunity.

Though simultaneously supportive rhetoric and talk of repatriation may secure a few votes in the short term, it does nothing to solve actual and imminent problems.

If implemented correctly, blockchain-based systems could mobilize new electorates, increase voter participation, reduce election violence, and make elections more secure and reliable than ever before.

A statement by Jonathan Hillman, director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Looking at both events together yields yet another irony—the United States is now, in effect, telling people to act like China, while China is telling people to act like the United States. Times have certainly changed.

As threats to democracy continue to morph and become more insidious, a renewed democracy playbook must be nimble and innovative to fight back against democracy’s steady decline.

The United States, its allies, and international organizations are just beginning to come to grips with the civil dimensions of "failed state" wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, the Sudans, Syria, and Yemen.

The international community can and should help Zimbabwe move toward a genuine democracy that reflects the will of the people. A free, fair, and credible election in 2018 is the first step in this process.