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February 5, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
Racism in Mali

Throughout the Mali crisis, the role of racism in shaping the conflict has not received much emphasis, at least in U.S. commentary. Yet, it plays an important role on the ground. Mali is on the divi…

1. A Malian soldier talks with civilians in central Timbuktu January 31, 2013. Mali's president offered Tuareg rebels talks on Thursday in a bid for national reconciliation after a French-led offensive drove their Islamist former allies into mountain hideaways.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

November 18, 2004

Is it the currency of John Snow and the problem of everyone else?

That headline draws on a nice quote from Steve Barrow of Bear Stearns. It paraphrases the famous saying about the dollar -- I think from Nixon’s Treasury Secretary John Connally -- "it is our curren…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

April 2, 2012

Fossil Fuels
Guest Post: IHS Author Defends Study on the Volcker Rule

In a post last Thursday, I identified four reasons for skepticism about a new IHS report that estimated the impact on energy markets of the currently proposed implementation of the Volcker rule. Kurt…

Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

December 5, 2014

Syria
A Massive Humanitarian Failure in Syria

Coauthored with Shervin Ghaffari, intern in the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As civil war in Syria inches toward its four-year anni…

A Syrian girl carries bread in the Bab al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, October 27, 2014.
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist