Commentary
For more than twenty-one years, I worked across Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan as a staff member of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)....
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...
The biggest obstacle to refugees economic success is not a lack of compassion — but a set of broken markets. That is the central argument...
Is it naïve to write about peace, reconstruction, and recovery at a time when the Middle East is engulfed in a renewed cycle of violence,...
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...
