By Moctar Aboubacar
The field of international development cooperation is being increasingly influenced by “emerging donors,” countries like South Korea which are capitalizing on their own development history to engage developing countries with innovative policy experiences.
Read MoreBy Probal DasGupta
Around 2005, South Asia was a patchwork of two dictatorships, two monarchies, and three democracies—including one engaged in a civil war.
Read MoreYale Journal of International Affairs interviews UN Special Adviser Adama Dieng. Dieng served as Registrar for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as well as the Supreme Court of Senegal and was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists.
Read MoreBy Kari Lipschutz
This paper uses the Nigerian case to illustrate the serious effect this type of institutional crisis can have on the ability to mitigate the negative externalities of resource development.
Read MoreBy Andrew Taffer
Since the end of World War II, China has been involved in more territorial disputes than any other state. The vast majority of them, 17 out of 23 according to M. Taylor Fravel, have been settled by bilateral agreements, “usually by compromising over the sovereignty of contested land.”
Read MoreBy Nathan Hopson
Perhaps this is unfair—there are, of course, many topics “missing,” because no journal or news source can cover everything—and it certainly reflects my own biases. But my question remains: where is Japan?
Read MoreYale Journal of International Affairs interviews Xingzui Wang, Vice President of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation.
Read MoreYale Journal of International Affairs interviews Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer and the former first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Read MoreBy Masoud Movahed
With thousands of engineers designing national vehicles, the auto industry is the second largest sector in the economy outside of oil and offers a huge chunk of employment opportunity to Iran’s young population.
Read MoreBy Michael Reed Hurtado
The Colombian government says that security sector reform is off-limits at the peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The government may have its reasons, but that should not leave security sector reform off-limits for Colombian citizenry and the international community.
Read MoreBy Goitom Gebreluel and Kjetil Tronvoll
Considering the unique history of colonialism and artificially created nation-states in Africa, the incidences of secession have been surprisingly few. Through a comparative analysis of Eritrea, Somaliland, and South Sudan, this article aims to account for post-secession variations in fragility, as well as contextualize the challenges South Sudan is currently facing.
Read MoreBy Ali Wyne
In discussions of America’s present and prospects, few notions are as common as that of “two Americas”: the haves and have-nots, the red states and blue states, and so forth. One might add another pair to the list: the resurgent and the dysfunctional.
Read MoreBy Jeff Roquen
At the end of the Cold War a quarter of a century ago, a little-known army officer – Omar al-Bashir – conducted a coup d’etat in Sudan.
Read MoreBy Rachel Bergenfield & Erik Heinonen
The U.S. Farm Bill, signed into law on 7 February, includes crucial, overdue reforms to food aid policy.
Read MoreBy Will Hickey
The Indonesian Rupiah’s recent slump to 12,300 to the dollar was entirely predictable.
Read MoreBy Masoud Movahed
Iran’s historic nuclear deal with six major world powers was hailed by all parties involved in the negotiating table
Read MoreBy Jeff Roquen
Ten years ago, tales of rape and murder began to leak out of Sudan and into the wider world. A campaign of terror upon the peoples of Darfur, in western Sudan, had been launched by the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Janjaweed militia.
Read MoreBy Liram Stenzler-Koblentz
On June 30, 2013, two years after the first Egyptian revolution had ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak, the protesters returned to Tahrir Square. This time they called for the resignation of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president and first civilian president.
Read MoreBy Caterina Valero
Now is a time of hope in Latin America. Despite the global economic recession, Latin America has sustained an average economic growth rate of more than three percent since 2004.
Read MoreBy Marc Grossman
The purpose of this article is to describe how, building on the foundations laid in 2009 and 2010 and validating the whole of government approach, the SRAP team pursued a diplomatic campaign to support U.S. objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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