The Myth of the Failed State: Political Order and Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
In 2001, the term “state failure” became one of the structuring concepts of political thought and policy-making in the Western world. Although the term itself –...
“We Can’t Fix It, and We Can’t Leave”: An Interview with Aaron David Miller
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Aaron David Miller is currently the Vice President for New Initiatives and a Distinguished Scholar at the Wo...
Growth and Success in Kerala
Introduction to Kerala Kerala stands out among the states of India, not only for its relative poverty, but for the truly remarkable array of basic health ...
Fight in the Cause of God? Dynamics of Religion in Separatist Conflicts
In 1991, Chechnya, an autonomous republic in the mountainous North Caucasus region of the former Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, declared its independence. D...
Down with Non-Complicity
There’s a whole range of reasons to be sensibly skeptical of American involvement in the Syrian conflict – our national interest there is poorly defined, we hav...
Prosecuting Heads of State: The Legacy of the Charles Taylor Trial
With the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL) requesting time to deliberate both on the prosecution and defense’s appeals earlier this year, the fight to convic...
Transforming Education: Massive Online Open Courses
Access to classroom learning is far from universal, and even those enrolled in formal educational institutions may be looking for greater, free, and more conven...
Announcing the 2013 Acheson Prize Winners
“The passing decades confirm Dean Acheson’s place as the clearest thinking, most effective Secretary of State of the twentieth century. As a writer he has...
(1st Place) The United Nations Congo Intervention: A Force of Decolonization
“1960 was the decolonization year. It was this year that the decolonization process started in full force, and he [Hammarskjold] felt that what happened to the ...
(2nd Place) Caribbean Zomia: Maroonage and State Evasion in the Jamaican Highlands
In The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott proposes a paradigm shift in the historical understanding of pop...