The United States Needs a New Regional Security Organization for the Asia-Pacific
Threats of tension and conflict in the Asia-Pacific will be a source of important security challenges facing the incoming Trump administration. Stability in the region is crucial to long-term American economic and physical...
Obama Moves Too Fast on Cuba
In his last press conference of 2016, President Barack Obama reflected on his policy toward Cuba. “Through diplomacy,” he stated, “We opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba.” Indeed, the 2014 prisoner swap and the 2015...
Clearing the Way: A Path Forward Under a New US International Development Reality
Evaluating the future of US international development policy under each new presidential administration is a crucial exercise in charting a thoughtful, realistic path forward. Regardless of intent, President-elect Donald Trump...
The United States Must Help Central Asia Help Itself
For all of the United States’ focus on defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), countering Russia, and balancing against a rising China, it has neglected a region critical to all of these issues: Central Asia....
The United States Needs a Better Communications Strategy to Defeat ISIL
The debate over what to call the Islamic State (ISIL) reemerged full force following recent attacks inspired by the group in a number of Western countries.