Commentary
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...
Since the turn of the new millennium, territorial disparities in real returns to labor have increased in many advanced and developing countries, influencing migration patterns...
