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…
Though Egyptian voters clearly evince a desire for Islamic law (however defined), public opinion research shows that they also want robust…
Book abstract: This book is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2012 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of…
I had feared that the political outrage about the Benghazi attacks in Libya that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other…