Last September, almost a year after taking office, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo released his first installment of policy packages intended to stimulate the Indonesian economy. Focused on improving industrial competitiveness through reducing red tape, the reform package...

Once again Haiti is in the throes of a political crisis. Former president Michel Martelly’s mandate ended on February 7, with no elected successor and without...

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is moving at breakneck speed to develop the institutions, as well as legal and regulatory mechanisms, necessary to strengthen cyber governance. This policy trajectory has been particularly evident during the last few months, a period...

The Obama Administration is in the process of making one of the most important decisions it will make in its final year, one that will shape its legacy for the future: whether and how the United States should support the Afghan government in its continuing war against the...

In a world that has become increasingly interconnected and chaotic, with more displaced persons since World War II, and with an array of humanitarian disasters that has outstripped the international community’s budgets and capacity to respond, why should global food...

The first four months of 2016 have seen both a decided shift in market sentiment and now increasingly the sense of supportive fundamentals, not the least of which involve a rash of supply disruptions—some planned, some unexpected, both large and small. Somewhat...

Kenya, a reasonably functional, promising but highly porous nation, has lived in a violent, unstable neighborhood for decades. Over time, it has inexorably become host—on a massive scale, willingly and unwillingly—to its neighbors’ victims. That legacy of generously...

On May 12, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released a summary of its long-anticipated proposals for the reform of organizations and processes in the defense acquisition system. Taken together, these proposals would dramatically extend the devolution of acquisition...

On May 12, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its long-anticipated proposals for reform of organizations and processes in the national security enterprise. The proposals come on top of earlier proposals by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and...

Iraq has just seen one of its most horrifying days of terrorism in what is now some thirteen years of war. ISIS has struck at Iraq’s civilian population with the clear goal of dividing the country between Sunni and Shi’ite—although one of its three bombs did kill...

“If only everyone could be like the Scandinavians, this would all be easy…” President Obama

Washington will soon have that Nord-easy feeling when the five Nordic leaders—the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway and the President of...

Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam in late May, officials and analysts in both Washington and Hanoi have been talking about whether the United States should fully lift the ban on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam that was imposed when the Vietnam War...