Counterinsurgency And Community Development

Ben Oppenheim. Over the past decade, community development, a program design that inverts standard…


Why We Should Care About ISIS Recruiting

Dustin Henry. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS, is renowned for their recruiting.…


Negative interest rate as a trend in the global economy

Kashik Basin. It is time for the annual Spring Meetings. Many of the world’s finance and…


Regime Vulnerability and the Diversionary Threat of Force

  Jonathan M. Powell. Abstract. In this article, I move beyond prior efforts to explore the…


Recounting Africa's Early Experience With The War On Terror

Special Report. African reactions to the September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center…


Beyond ‘Dragon In The Bush’: The Study Of China-Africa Relations

  Daniel Large. In the wake of China's Year of Africa in 2006, China–Africa relations are…


The Risks Of African Military Capacity Building: Lessons From Rwanda

Danielle Beswick. Civil war and insecurity are widely seen as obstacles to development and threats…


Rising Global Poverty, Human Rights, And Insecurity

Thomas Pogge. Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still…


Professionalism in Africa’s Militaries Is Indispensible to Growth, Development And Stability

  Emile Ouédraogo at the African Center for Strategic Studies provides a must-read for African…


NIgeria Sovereign Wealth Fund: A Road Map To Avoid The Oil Curse

Ikemefuna S. Nwoye. One major challenge that has confronted most countries with natural resources…