F. Gregory Gause III | May/June 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs MBS in Mecca, June 2017. Handout / Reuters It is not often that a Ritz-Carlton becomes a detention facility. But last November, when a large slice of the Saudi elite was arrested on accusatio …
The Next Arab Uprising: The Collapse of Authoritarianism in the Middle East Published: October 23, 2018
Marwan Muasher | November/December 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs Jordanian police face off demonstrators during a protest near the prime minister’s office in Amman, The Times of Israel Two perfect storms have struck the Arab world in the past decade. In …
Venezuela’s Suicide: Lessons From a Failed State Published: October 18, 2018
Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro | November/December 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs A protester holds a burning flag at a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, June 2017. Carlos Garcia Rawlins / REUTERS Consider two Latin …
IPCC says limiting global warming to 1.5 °C will require drastic action Published: October 10, 2018
Jeff Tollefson | 08 October 2018 | Nature Humanity has a limited window in which it can hope to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to climate report. Glaciers and sea ice won’t be safe in a world that warms to 2 °C above pre-industri …
Showdown: SA takes on the US for cheaper drugs Published: September 29, 2018
Laura Lopez Gonzalez | 28 Sep 2018 | Mail & Guardian When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next. Face-off: South Africa argued for patients over p …
Beyond the Red Sea: A new driving force in the politics of the Horn Published: September 19, 2018
Alex DeWaal | July 11, 2018 | World Peace Foundation This essay was published by African Arguments on July 11, 2018, and is the first part of The Thin Red Line, an African Arguments series focusing on dynamics around the Red Sea. The opening of the Su …
Can Ethiopia’s Reforms Succeed? Published: September 13, 2018
Michael Woldemariam | September 10, 2018 | Foreign Affairs What Abiy’s Plans Mean for the Country and the Region Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed waves to supporters as he attends a rally in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2018. REUTERS Ethiopia is on t …
Chinese Aid and Investment Are Good for Africa Published: September 4, 2018
Seneglese and Chinese workers at the construction site for a new national theater in Dakar on Feb. 14, 2009. (Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images) J. Peter Pham, Abdoul Salam Bello, Boubacar-Sid Barry | August 31, 2018 | Foreign Policy Increased interest in the c …
The Rise of the Cyber-Mercenaries: What happens when private firms have cyberweapons as powerful as those owned by governments? Published: September 4, 2018
Neri Zilber Illustration by Oliver Munday | August 31, 2018 | Foreign Policy The first text message showed up on Ahmed Mansoor’s phone at 9:38 on a sweltering August morning in 2016. “New secrets about torture of Emiratis in state prisons,” it read, so …
When China Rules the Web Published: September 1, 2018
Adam Segal | September/October 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs Technology in Service of the State The future is Chinese. Dave Simonds For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon p …