The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
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The currently intense debate about ‘land
grabs’ or ‘land investment’ in Africa has reinforced the significance
of relations around land…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
Professor Burns discusses this week's extraordinary events surrounding the chaos in Syria and the Russian offer to broker a diplomatic end…
In this period of gloomy economic forecasts, Africa's rise has become a widely discussed international policy topic. The sweeping optimism…
In the face of a nearly impossible diplomatic dilemma, the US must continue to have an open mind toward Egypt.
For the enormous crowds who gathered in Tahrir Square over the past few days, the military’s announcement abrogating the new constitution…
The Benghazi controversy’s return to Washington’s raging partisan wars continues to portray our political culture at its worst.
So many…
I am on my way back from the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. This was a remarkable meeting with an…