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The Era of Nation Cultivation

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 25, 2012

The concept of nation building has brought nothing but trouble. It's time for a paradigm shift.

Stop It with the Kony 2012, Already

Malou Innocent | Apr 12, 2012

Washington reviles the LRA yet supports Arab tyrannies guilty of human-rights abuses on a vastly larger scale.

Al-Qaeda Grows in Africa

Rohan Gunaratna | Mar 23, 2012

The notorious terrorist group has joined forces with Somali Islamists to wreak havoc on another continent.

Skepticism Needed About “Freedom Fighters”

Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 14, 2012

The anti-Soviet mujahideen. Jonas Savimbi. The Nicaraguan Contras. Kony's LRA. America's opinion leaders must be more careful about whose politics they endorse.

The Hidden Uganda

The Editors | Mar 13, 2012

The Fallout from Kony 2012

J. Peter Pham | Mar 13, 2012

Did the Kony 2012 documentary do more harm than good?

Homegrown Jihad Sweeps America

John R. Schindler | Jan 23, 2012

With two new cases of domestic terrorism this month, the U.S. must start to take this threat much more seriously.

Interventionist Addiction: U.S. Troops in Central Africa

Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 21, 2011

American blood and treasure pay for Washington's humanitarian-intervention addiction.

A Humanitarian Intervention Worth Doing

Paul R. Pillar | Oct 16, 2011

This is no Somalia or Libya. Eradicating the Lord's Resistance Army is the right thing to do.

Etzioni and the Great Drone Debate

Benjamin H. Friedman | Oct 5, 2011

How drones minimize one of the only remaining restraints on whimsical war making.

The Great Drone Debate

Amitai Etzioni | Oct 4, 2011

The good, the bad and the ugly on unmanned aircraft.

The Trouble with Global Public Goods

Christopher A. Preble | Aug 12, 2011

Americans no longer want to be the world's policemen. It's time to stop giving rich allies a free ride.

The Convoluted Debate on Drones

Malou Innocent | Jul 29, 2011

Are drones simply providing policy makers a more antiseptic avenue for satiating their endless appetite for intervention?

Washington's Foreign-Policy Hypochondria

Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 25, 2011

Why the U.S. has become the meddling Aunt Myrtle of the international community.

Sudan and the Sanctions Trap

Paul R. Pillar | Jul 11, 2011

Is it better to reward an indicted war criminal or punish a nascent state?

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