Opinion

The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) are a matter of heated debate. Can it generate new things? Can it produce scientific discoveries, novel hypotheses, or...

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, Joe Studwell, Atlantic Monthly Press, 448 pp., $32, February 2026 Joe Studwell has spent...

A Conversation with Shanta Devarajan on Conflict and Development What follows is a conversation with Shanta Devarajan, Professor of the Practice of International Development at...

Analyses of the Iran war most frequently focus on military strategy, global energy markets, evolving/devolving alliances, and innumerable searches for an off-ramp. Detailed coverage has...

After fifteen years of civil war, in the early 1990s, Lebanon adopted a real estate–led recovery strategy for Beirut’s downtown through Solidere. Infrastructure was rebuilt,...

A long-simmering crisis in Yemen between former anti-Houthi allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE finally erupted in open clashes on December 30, 2025. Fighting between...

As 2026 unfolds, the landscape of post-conflict reconstruction is being reshaped by the growing prominence of private investment alongside traditional public donor commitments. The surge...

In the year since the ouster of the Assad regime, Syrians remain mostly hopeful having thrown out a brutal dictatorship, secured US, European, Regional and Russian recognition...

Remember John Lennon singing “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill of die for”. He did have a point: Aggressive...