Professor Burns discusses this week's extraordinary events surrounding the chaos in Syria and the Russian offer to broker a diplomatic end…
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial…
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…
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…
It's Washington at its worst — Republicans continue to question this week about what UN Ambassador Susan Rice knew and when she knew it on…
A key attribute of China's diplomacy in recent years is its increasing presence in Africa. With its rising investments and aid in…
Yesterday’s tragic murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American diplomats in Libya illustrates the ever-present…